TAIPEI, Taiwan -Revelations that Taiwanese Premier Wu Den-yih traveled abroad with a former gangster have excited great interest among this island's sensation-seeking media

to 1,592. Markets in Taiwan, India and Singapore also fell. Mainland China's Shanghai Composite index gained 0.5 percent. In Australia, Australia's S&P/ASX200 benchmark

TAIPEI, Taiwan -Taiwan's president says the island has not received anything in exchange for lifting a long-standing ban on the imports of certain U.S. beef cuts. Ma

TAIPEI, Taiwan -Taiwan has banned foreign investors from placing money in certain bank accounts, the latest move by developing countries to slow an influx of international

TAIPEI, Taiwan -More than 1,000 employees of an AIG-affiliated Taiwanese life insurance company protested Wednesday the sale of the unit, demanding the return of pension

TAIPEI, Taiwan -Taiwan's High Court on Friday upheld its earlier decision to keep former President Chen Shui-bian in detention after the Supreme Court ordered it to hold a

TAIPEI, Taiwan -The crew of the Hollywood doomsday movie "2012" expressed sympathy Friday for victims of real-life flooding and earthquakes this week in the Asia-Pacific

CHE DING, Taiwan -The sword-maker inserts an 18-inch shaft of metal into his red-hot kiln. Then he adds his special ingredient: a human thighbone. The bone, says Kuo

CHE DING, Taiwan -The sword-maker inserts an 18-inch shaft of metal into his red-hot kiln. Then he adds his special ingredient: a human thighbone. The bone, says Kuo

HONG KONG -One of the top modern dancers of the East on Tuesday paid tribute to a giant of the West, as Taiwan's Lin Hwai-min mourned the death of Merce Cunningham, calling

TAIPEI, Taiwan -Taiwan's representative to the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit said Monday that he will discuss a trade agreement with the Chinese

TAIPEI, Taiwan -Taiwan's jobless rate fell slightly to 6.04 percent in September after reaching a high of 6.13 percent the month before, the government said Thursday