Deaths In Taiwan

Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real "evil", Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists.

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan last month. It was the most serious quake in its history. Taiwan's government has approved around $878 million to fix the massive landslides which blocked tunnels and damaged several roads and

A top official involved in Taiwan's missile production died of heart problems on Saturday, the army-owned institute where he worked said, as China conducts massive military drills around the self-ruled island.

A Taiwanese woman who set off the island's deadliest fire in decades to get back at her boyfriend escaped the death penalty Friday as the court handed down a life sentence.

A Taiwanese judo coach who killed a seven-year-old pupil by repeatedly throwing him to the floor was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday, prompting the boy's parents to demand a harsher punishment.

An overnight fire tore through a building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung on Thursday, killing 46 people and injuring dozens of others, officials said.

A Singaporean couple have been arrested over the death of a newborn baby found dumped in the trash in Taiwan two years ago, police in the city-state said.

India expressed grief on Saturday over the death of around 50 people in a train accident in Taiwan that is said to be the country's deadliest rail crash in decades.

Overseas investors have sold a net $9 billion worth of regional equities so far in March, after offloading $5.6 billion last month, data from stock exchanges in India, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam showed.

Sixty-four new coronavirus deaths were reported in China on Tuesday, the highest since the virus was detected late last year taking the total number of people killed in the outbreak to 425. The World Health Organization has declared the crisis a global health emergency, and the first death outside China was confirmed in the Philippines on Sunday.

Taiwan executed a death-row inmate on Friday, the first execution carried out under President Tsai Ing-wen's government and despite ongoing calls from rights groups to abolish the death penalty.

Japan had confirmed to the US within weeks about the death of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in a plane crash in Taiwan in 1945, a UK website set up to document evidence on the circumstances of the freedom fighter's demise claimed today.

A classified 60-year-old Japanese government document on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death made public today concludes that the legendary freedom fighter died in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945, backing the official version.

Mamata Banerjee today said she was shocked by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's "hurtful tweet" on legendary freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, who is believed by many to have lived even after the reports of his death in an air crash in Taiwan in 1945.

A seven-year-old male giraffe has died of anxiety after being caged and loaded onto a truck at a Taiwan zoo, the latest animal death to spark angry calls for tougher protection laws.

Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real "evil", Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists.

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan last month. It was the most serious quake in its history. Taiwan's government has approved around $878 million to fix the massive landslides which blocked tunnels and damaged several roads and

A top official involved in Taiwan's missile production died of heart problems on Saturday, the army-owned institute where he worked said, as China conducts massive military drills around the self-ruled island.

A Taiwanese woman who set off the island's deadliest fire in decades to get back at her boyfriend escaped the death penalty Friday as the court handed down a life sentence.

A Taiwanese judo coach who killed a seven-year-old pupil by repeatedly throwing him to the floor was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday, prompting the boy's parents to demand a harsher punishment.

An overnight fire tore through a building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung on Thursday, killing 46 people and injuring dozens of others, officials said.

A Singaporean couple have been arrested over the death of a newborn baby found dumped in the trash in Taiwan two years ago, police in the city-state said.

India expressed grief on Saturday over the death of around 50 people in a train accident in Taiwan that is said to be the country's deadliest rail crash in decades.

Overseas investors have sold a net $9 billion worth of regional equities so far in March, after offloading $5.6 billion last month, data from stock exchanges in India, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam showed.

Sixty-four new coronavirus deaths were reported in China on Tuesday, the highest since the virus was detected late last year taking the total number of people killed in the outbreak to 425. The World Health Organization has declared the crisis a global health emergency, and the first death outside China was confirmed in the Philippines on Sunday.

Taiwan executed a death-row inmate on Friday, the first execution carried out under President Tsai Ing-wen's government and despite ongoing calls from rights groups to abolish the death penalty.

Japan had confirmed to the US within weeks about the death of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in a plane crash in Taiwan in 1945, a UK website set up to document evidence on the circumstances of the freedom fighter's demise claimed today.

A classified 60-year-old Japanese government document on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death made public today concludes that the legendary freedom fighter died in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945, backing the official version.

Mamata Banerjee today said she was shocked by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's "hurtful tweet" on legendary freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, who is believed by many to have lived even after the reports of his death in an air crash in Taiwan in 1945.

A seven-year-old male giraffe has died of anxiety after being caged and loaded onto a truck at a Taiwan zoo, the latest animal death to spark angry calls for tougher protection laws.