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The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Thursday are as follows:

Canadian Senate Opposition Leader Leo Housakos is on a visit to Taiwan at the head of a delegation to deepen bilateral ties and enhance cooperation on foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), Taiwan's foreign ministry said Thursday.

The 2026 Taiwan Athletics Open, which typically draws top international athletes, has been canceled ahead of its June schedule, as funding for the sports ministry has not yet cleared the Legislature, the organizing body said Wednesday.

North Korea’s state media has reported a series of military tests, including one of a ballistic missile fitted with a cluster bomb warhead. It also tested what was described as “special assets,” including an electromagnetic weapon system and carbon fiber…

Local media are reporting that the head of Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang, Cheng Li-wun, will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday. Neither the KMT nor China's government have confirmed the meeting.

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Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said Wednesday during a visit to the Marshall Islands that Taiwan will inject another US$1 million into a start-up loan fund for women and will set up a new fund to support local businesses.

Taiwan shares ended up 99.78 points, or 0.29 percent, at 34,861.16 Thursday on turnover of NT$844.29 billion (US$26.37 billion).

Eleven people have tested positive for salmonella in a suspected mass food poisoning outbreak linked to the lunch box chain Chin Liu Cuisine (清六食堂) in New Taipei's Xindian District, as the number of people seeking medical treatment rose to 143 on Thursday.

Japan and Australia are raising concerns about security in the Indo-Pacific, warning that global focus on the Iran war could create dangerous gaps in the region. TaiwanPlus speaks with Bryce Barros, an analyst at the Institute for National Defense and Security…

A beach in Toucheng, Yilan has recently been shrouded in thick smoke after a local temple burned large amounts of joss paper, sparking growing concerns over ...

Firefly magic is lighting up southern Taiwan! Tucked away in Chiayi's lush mountains, Ruili Village in Meishan Township is glowing with the highest concentra...

The U.S. dollar fell against the Taiwan dollar Thursday, shedding NT$0.037 to close at NT$31.748.

Prosecutors in Taoyuan on Thursday indicted three men in a international drug trafficking case involving more than 512 kilograms of ketamine with an estimated street value of NT$300 million (US$9.43 million), seeking prison terms of over 10 years for two…

Prosecutors on Wednesday indicted 28 individuals and four companies over a November 2025 oil spill that contaminated tap water for more than 100,000 households in Keelung and New Taipei's Xizhi District.

Iran says it's shutting down the critical Strait of Hormuz again, and that it will demand payments in cryptocurrency from tankers transiting through in the future. These latest announcements could complicate upcoming talks with the US, which has demanded…

Taiwan is advancing “sovereign AI” to reduce reliance on foreign AI models. The government says it has become a national security priority, shifting to train AI models using local data. The English language currently dominates the training of AI models, making…

The Cabinet on Thursday approved a draft legal revision that would ban employers or labor brokers from retaining migrant workers' identity documents or expropriating their personal property under any circumstances.

Small modular reactors (SMRs) are not a practical solution to Taiwan's current energy challenges, but early planning is needed if the country hopes to adopt the technology in the future, a nuclear energy expert said Thursday.

Olympic bronze medalist Chen Nien-chin (陳念琴) has won the women's 65-kilogram division at the 2026 Asian Boxing Elite Boxing Championship in Mongolia, her second Asian Championship title.