Taiwan Suspends Stock Trading Due to Super Typhoon Kong-Rey October 30, 2024 By Mary Hui and Cindy Wang Taiwan will suspend trading on its $2.5 trillion stock exchange Thursday as a powerful typhoon barrels toward the archipelago. Super...
Death Toll in Taiwanese Golf Ball Factory Fire Rises to 10, Including 4 Firefighters September 25, 2023 TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Search teams found the bodies of the last three missing people on Sunday at the site...
Lloyd’s of London Leads Insurers Tightening Taiwan Cover as Conflict Risks Rise August 10, 2023 By Jonathan Saul and Carolyn Cohn LONDON –– Lloyd’s of London underwriters are leading insurers in raising rates and cutting the amount of cover they offer...
Taiwan Suspects Chinese Ships Cut Islands’ Internet Cables March 9, 2023 By Huizhong Wu and Johnson Lai NANGAN, Taiwan (AP) — In the past month, bed and breakfast owner Chen Yu-lin had to tell his guests he...
At Least 46 Killed in Taiwanese Apartment Building Inferno October 15, 2021 By Huizhong Wu KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — At least 46 people were killed and another 41 injured after a fire broke out early...
Workers Clear Last Train From Deadly Crash Site in Taiwan April 8, 2021 By Huizhong Wu TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Cabin exposed, with half of its walls and roof gone, workers pulled out the last remaining...
Taiwan Rescuers Work to Bring Out Last Body From Wrecked Train April 6, 2021 TAIPEI — Taiwanese rescuers were trying on Monday to retrieve the last body of a passenger from wreckage of a...
Truck Owner Apologizes After Taiwan Railway Crash Kills 48 April 5, 2021 By Huizhong Wu TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The owner of a construction truck that caused Taiwan’s worst rail accident in decades, killing 48...
Severe Tropical Storm Trami Hits Taiwan August 22, 2013 Severe Tropical Storm Trami struck Wednesday in heavily populated northern Taiwan, prompting schools and offices to close down as heavy...
Taiwan 6.2 Magnitude Earthquake Results in Low Number of Insured Losses June 4, 2013 The magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck central Taiwan Sunday night, June 2, 2013, at 9:43 p.m. local time, in a...