Ambassador Lu Shaye tells a French audience that Taiwan must be reunited with the mainland, if not peacefully, ‘then by non-peaceful means’.

But Republican lawmakers question whether funds are being spent effectively to counter Beijing’s ‘malign influence’.

Self-ruled island issues ‘orange’ alert recommending avoiding non-essential travel to Hong Kong due to national security law.

The guidelines, which came into force last week, could see ‘diehard separatists’ sentenced to death or given life sentences.

The annual Han Kuang Exercise will also see a shift away from staging shows for the leadership and scripted drills.

US envoy to Manila MaryKay Carlson has called on China to stop harassing Philippine ships in the South China Sea.

The man was detained by the coastguard in March after his fishing boat lost power off the coast of Fujian province.

Four vessels entered restricted waters on Tuesday, remaining there for two hours, Taiwan’s coastguard says.

Helicopter drill may be part of anti-sub exercise as 23 PLA aircraft and seven vessels detected near strait in 24 hours from Sunday morning.

Opposition politician Ko Wen-je says Lai had promised to answer questions from lawmakers and asks ‘do pre-election promises not count’?

Roughly 30 minutes after taking off, the plane had to make an emergency landing after detecting a fault with the aircraft’s pressurisation system.

KMT veteran Wang Jin-pyng’s week-long visit may include meeting with Taiwan Affairs Office chief, Taiwanese media reports say.

At a meeting in Taipei, US officials reaffirm support for Taiwan’s ‘valuable expertise’ in addressing ‘urgent challenges’, as China sends 66 warplanes into the airspace around island.

Bitter divisions in the legislature and on the streets will worsen, on top of strained relations with Chinese mainland, observers say.

The PLA submarine force, which is marking its 70th anniversary, has for the first time publicly acknowledged a strategic shift away from conventional subs.

Mainland authorities say the death penalty could apply to convictions in extreme instances.

India, one expert says, has ‘indicated that it is willing to gradually ramp up pressure on issues like Tibet and Taiwan’.

Okinawan voters have been rethinking their priorities as tensions continue to grow over the future of Taiwan, which is just over 100km from the most westerly island in the Okinawa archipelago.

New technology a ‘double-edged sword’ that can drive innovation but also spur misinformation, executives say at industry forum.

Experts speculate the rare event for the powerful Type 094 vessel was a deliberate show of force, routine maintenance or possible malfunction.

Taiwan-raised Nymphia Wind recently won RuPaul’s Drag Race – the first East Asian drag artist to do so. We look at how drag culture has evolved on the island and talk to some of its leading lights.

Manila’s bid for UN recognition of an extended continental shelf claim could encourage similar moves, adding more complexity to tangled disputes, observers say.

Comments come despite US overtaking the mainland as Taiwan’s main export market in the first quarter of the year.

The bill’s passage marks a major victory for LGBTQ activists after campaigning over many years to push for marriage parity.

The hit Netflix crime series returns as slick and polished as before, as we follow Joseph Chang’s detective with Asperger’s syndrome. However, the show is let down by convoluted storytelling.