Full Coverage: Taiwan

24.09.2007 Rarely is St Kitts and Nevis (pop: 39,382), not to mention St Vincent and the Grenadines (pop: 125,882), at the centre of a titanic diplomatic struggle. But no nation is too tiny for China and Taiwan to squabble over. Lindsey Hilsum explains why.
From New Statesman

26.06.2007 "Out with the old and in with the new"? Or an "imprudent" decision that harms human rights? After 60 years of diplomatic relations with Taiwan, the Costa Rican president announced this month these ties have been broken in favor of establishing relations with China.

12.04.2007 The Taiwanese government plans to have women who sell betel nuts at roadside booths distribute boxes containing condoms and information about HIV/AIDS to their customers.

06.07.2006 Customs officers in Taiwan have seized more than two metric tonnes of illegal elephant ivory on ships travelling from Tanzania to The Philippines.

08.05.2006 A gentle community gets on with life despite having a wall of missiles pointing at them, reports OneWorld UK's man in East Asia, Nury Vittachi.

15.12.2005 The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) board of directors today announced that Quanta Computer Inc. of Taiwan was chosen as the original design manufacturer (ODM) for the $100 laptop project. The decision was made after the board reviewed bids from several possible manufacturing companies.

22.03.2004 Uncertainty and divisions loom in the days and weeks ahead in Taiwan, after mass demonstrations, fuelled by folktale-like speculations about the rigging of Saturday's presidential elections, turned into violent riots Sunday.

10.12.2003 TAIPEI, Dec. 10 (CSM) -– President Chen Shui-bian is on the campaign trail, tossing himself into mobbing crowds, pushing the envelope, and liberally using the 1,000-volt word that nobody in Beijing wants to hear: referendum.

09.09.2002 Amid growing tensions with Taiwan, China has built a missile defence shield to protect the huge Three Gorges dam, currently under construction, from the threat of military attack, the government revealed last week.

11.08.2002

09.05.2002 Taiwan is discussing dumping low-level nuclear waste in the politically troubled Solomon Islands, according to Taiwan's Central News Agency.

28.04.2002

03.09.2001 This article discusses the influence that education of children has on the physical functioning of their parents in Taiwan.

16.02.2001 Taiwan's government is facing a barrage of criticism over its handling of the worst oil spill in the country since 1977 as the clean-up operation in an ecologically fragile national park is hamstrung by lack of resources.

20.03.2000 Taiwan's President-elect Chen Sui-bian has rejected Beijing's calls for a united China with dual systems to overcome the tense geopolitical stand-off across the Straits.

17.03.2000 As Taiwanese voters go to the polls on Saturday, predictions that the country's main opposition party candidate will end up as the next president are rattling the leadership across the Straits in China.

02.12.1999 Demand for scarves and shawls made from a Tibetan antelope's coat is on the increase, and fetches prices as high as US$5,000 (WWF)

03.08.1999 China has test-fired a long-range missile in what seemed to be a threatening signal to Taiwan, and Beijing propaganda declared that its armed forces were "not afraid of a big war".

19.02.1999 American indigenous leaders have criticised the outcome of talks last week on an indigenous rights declaration for being too closed to direct input from interested groups.