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by Amber WANG / Sean CHANG Agence France-Presse YILAN, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan’s president pushed for a swift investigation Monday after an express train derailed on a coastal tourist route, killing 18 people as it sent sleeping passengers flying from their seats. The crash on the popular east coast line injured another 187 people Sunday and left the Puyuma Express lying zig-zagged across the tracks in the island’s worst rail accident for a quarter century. […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — A 5.7-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, and was felt strongly in the capital Taipei. The quake struck around 104 kilometers (66 miles) off the coast of Hualien city, in the east of the island, at a depth of 34 km at 12:34 pm (0434 GMT). There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. Taiwan’s central weather bureau measured the quake at 6.0 magnitude. © Agence […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Two US warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, a military spokesman said, in a move bound to aggravate China amid heightened tensions with Beijing. The USS Curtis Wilbur and USS Antietam conducted a routine transit to demonstrate US commitment “to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Colonel Rob Manning told reporters at a press briefing. It was the second time in the space of three months that American warships […]
by Amber WANG / Sean CHANG Agence France Presse YILAN, Taiwan (AFP) — At least 18 people have died after an express train derailed and flipped over on a popular coastal tourist route in Taiwan on Sunday, the island’s worst rail accident for more than 25 years. Images from the site showed the Puyuma Express train completely derailed and lying zig-zagged across the track in northeastern Yilan county. All of the train’s eight carriages had […]
by Mynardo Macaraig Agence France Presse MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A super typhoon roared toward the Philippines on Thursday, prompting thousands to evacuate ahead of its heavy rains and fierce winds that are set to strike at the weekend before moving on to China. Typhoon Mangkhut, which has already blasted through the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, is speeding across the Pacific with winds that can gust as high as 255 kilometres (160 miles) […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Friday recalled its envoys to three Latin American countries that recently switched diplomatic ties from Taiwan to China, saying it would hold consultations with the diplomats. The move comes after Washington accused Beijing last month of destabilizing cross-Strait relations and engaging in a campaign of “political interference” by poaching Taiwan’s allies in the western hemisphere. “The Department of State has called back the US Ambassador […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Six people have been killed by floodwaters in Taiwan, officials said Saturday, after days of heavy rain forced thousands to evacuate their homes. A tropical depression has been dumping torrential rain in central and southern Taiwan since Thursday, with some districts receiving close to 1,000 millimeters (39 inches) of rainfall. Six have died in the storm so far, according to government figures, including three who were killed by a falling […]
(Eagle News) — These pictures taken by Sarah Ejorcadas show floodwaters engulfing roads as torrential rains pounded Taiwan in recent days. Taiwan experiences around 2,500 millimeters per year of rainfall. Much of the rainfall comes from typhoons.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan’s president has given a speech in the United States — the first time in 15 years that a leader of the island has spoken publicly on American soil — in a move likely to anger Beijing. During a stopover en route to Paraguay, Tsai Ing-wen, whose government refuses to endorse Beijing’s view that Taiwan is part of China, vowed to defend democratic values. “We will keep our pledge that we […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Nine people were killed and 15 injured in a blaze that broke out early Monday at a hospice for the terminally ill near Taiwan’s capital Taipei, fire officials said. All of the 36 people inside, including three staff, were evacuated after the fire started at the hospice on the seventh floor of a nine-storey hospital in New Taipei city. Sixteen had cardiac arrests and seven were revived. The other nine died […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — US chipmaking giant Qualcomm on Friday agreed a sharply reduced fine with Taiwan after officials said it had harmed market competition and manipulated prices, as it faces a number of probes worldwide. Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission last year fined the firm Tw$23.4 billion ($763 million) saying the world’s biggest handset chip supplier had violated fair trade rules for at least seven years. The authorities found that Qualcomm had refused to offer […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — Two more Chinese drug makers have announced that a blood-pressure medication they exported to Taiwan contained a potentially cancer-causing impurity, a month after the same problem at another Chinese manufacturer prompted a global recall. Tianyu Pharm and Rundu Pharma said batches of valsartan, an active ingredient widely used in medications for high blood pressure and congestive heart failure, contained N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), which is believed to potentially cause cancer through long-term use. […]
