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Relatives pray for the victims killed during a fire that tore through a dilapidated housing block (R) in Kaohsiung on 15 October 2021. Picture: AFP

Taipei

Anguish and anger after Taiwan building blaze kills 46

By AFP

The blaze is the latest tragedy to highlight concerns over lax safety standards in Taiwan and has exposed the poor living conditions of many elderly in a...

  • This handout picture released by the Yilan County Fire Department on 2 January 2020 shows rescuers searching for survivors after a military Black Hawk helicopter smashed into mountains in Yilan county near Taipei. Taiwan's top military chief Shen Yi-ming was killed in the helicopter crash, the defence ministry said, just days before the island goes to polls to elect a new president. Picture: AFP

    Taiwan military chief among eight dead as helicopter makes forced landing

    The defence ministry said it had dispatched a rescue team following the Black Hawk helicopter’s forced landing in New Taipei City, after aviation authorities lost contact with the craft at 8:22am.

    875 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis gives the Christmas Eve Mass on 24 December 2017. Picture: AFP

    Taipei archbishop says will invite pope to visit Taiwan

    China claims Taiwan as its own and considers the self-ruled island a wayward province. The island has about 300,000 Catholics.

    1476 days ago
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou during a summit in Singapore on 7 November 2015. Picture: Twitter

    China warns Taiwan it won't tolerate separatist activities

    China has been infuriated over a US bill that seeks to raise official contacts between Washington and Taipei.

    1543 days ago
  • A bus that crashed along a highway is lifted by cranes in Taipei on 14 February, 2017. A bus in Taiwan reported to have been taking local tourists home from visiting seasonal cherry blossoms veered off a highway with 32 feared dead, the national fire department said. Picture: AFP.

    32 killed after tour bus crashes in Taiwan

    Many of the passengers were elderly, although the age range was early 20s to late 60s, according to city authorities.

    1927 days ago
  • Tshwane Mayor Solly Msimanga. Picture: EWN

    Tshwane mayor Msimanga defends Taiwan visit

    The mayor came under fire from the Department of International Relations and the ANC for allegedly breaching government’s “one China policy”.

    1960 days ago
  • FILE: Solly Msimanga. Picture: Kgothatso Mogale/EWN

    Tshwane mayor Msimanga in Taipei on trade visit

    Solly Msimanga was invited by the Taiwanese city's mayor Ko Wen-je but some ANC members view the visit as contravening the “One China” policy.

    1975 days ago
  • People tend to an injured woman at the Formosa Fun Coast amusement park after an explosion in the Pali district of New Taipei City in Taiwan on 27 June 2015. Picture: AFP.

    498 injured after Taiwan water park fire

    Victims suffered burns on limbs and torsos, with some passing out from the pain.

    2523 days ago
  • FILE: Rescue personnel work to free passengers from a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane that crash-landed into a river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei in New Taipei City on February 4, 2015. Picture: AFP.

    TransAsia crash: Black boxes reveal attempts to regain thrust

    The plane warned five times of stalling before the crash in the centre of Taipei.

    2666 days ago
  • Rescue personnel work to free passengers from a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane that crash-landed into a river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei in New Taipei City on February 4, 2015. Picture: AFP

    TransAsia Airways crash: Death toll rises to 12

    The plane, with 58 people on board, clipped a highway bridge before crash landing into a river.

    2668 days ago
  • A TransAsia Airways passenger plane hit a bridge in Taipei City, in Taiwan before plunging into the river. Picture: AFP

    TransAsia Airways plane crashes into river

    The plane crashed into a river in Taiwan with 58 passengers on board.

    2668 days ago
  • Local journalists wait in front of a TransAsia reservations desk at the Sungshan airport in Taipei on 23 July 2014 after more than 40 people died when flight GE222 crashed in Penghu island, Taiwan. Picture: AFP.

    Weather not cause of Taiwan plane crash

    A 70-seat ATR 72, crashed near the runway while trying to land on the small island of Penghu.

    2863 days ago
  • The Apple logo is displayed on the exterior of an Apple Store on 23 April, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Picture: AFP.

    Mass iPhone production to begin

    Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry will begin mass production of Apple's next-generation iPhone.

    2869 days ago
  • Smartphone.

    HTC execs arrested over leaked secrets

    HTC's stock price is at an eight-year low and has warned it could make its first operating loss this quarter.

    3188 days ago
  • A bus sits half submerged on a flooded road in New Taipei City on August 2, 2012, as Typhoon Saola pounds Taiwan. Picture: AFP.

    5 die in Taiwan typhoon

    5 people died after torrential rain triggered landslides and flooding across Taiwan.

    3584 days ago
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