US forces on Friday carried out a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela, killing four people, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said. The latest strike, which Hegseth ...

Taiwan is planning to order an additional four PAC-3 MSE systems and up to 500 missiles in response to an increasing number of missile sites on China’s east coast, a defense official said yesterday.

The Church of England has named Sarah Mullally the next archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to be nominated to lead the institution in its almost 500-year history. The role serves as the ...

Swedes are stocking up on food items in case of war, as more conflict in Europe no longer feels like a distant possibility, and authorities encourage measures to boost readiness. At a civil ...

A National Taiwan University law student, surnamed Hung (洪), was on Friday indicted for allegedly selling and distributing sex videos of 321 people, the Taichung District Prosecutors’ Office said. The ...

Israel yesterday said that its troops were still operating in Gaza and warned residents not to return, despite calls from the families of Israeli hostages and US President Donald Trump for an ...

Photo: Chung Li-hua, Taipei Times The events failed to change the Taiwanese national identity of the participants and might have backfired by giving young Taiwanese first-hand experience of Chinese ...

President William Lai (賴清德) has no plans to travel overseas, the Presidential Office said yesterday after Nikkei Asia reported that he had sent a top aide to the US to prepare for a potential stopover ...

Taiwanese scientists have engineered plants that can capture about 50 percent more carbon dioxide and produce more than twice as many seeds as unmodified plants, a breakthrough they hope could one day ...

Aerospace industries in Taiwan and India can complement each other, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) executive Lewis Chen (陳立偉) said in an interview. Five India-based space start-ups ...

A US Department of State spokesperson on Monday reiterated that Washington’s position on Taiwan-China relations remains unchanged, ie, the US opposes any unilateral move to alter the “status quo.” The ...

Conservative Sanae Takaichi yesterday hailed a “new era” after becoming head of Japan’s ruling party, putting her on course to become the country’s first female prime minister. The 64-year-old, whose ...