Taipei, March 7 (CNA) Taiwan has sent its largest-ever delegation of publishers and had several local works selected for prestigious exhibits at the 2023 Bologna Children's Book Festival (BCBF), an annual children's publishing event that opened on Monday. | Continue reading
Taipei, Feb. 1 (CNA) The Italian pavilion at this year's Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) is hosting a series of lectures and offering up Mandarin Chinese translations of 15 books by author Italo Calvino to mark the centenary of his birth. | Continue reading
Taipei, May 2 (CNA) Scientists at Taiwan's Academia Sinica have identified a new form of cell division that occurs without the replication of DNA, challenging the scientific consensus on one of the most basic biological processes. | Continue reading
Taipei, April 30 (CNA) Taiwan reported 15,149 new COVID-19 cases as well as three deaths from the disease on Saturday, the third consecutive day the single-day total exceeded 10,000 cases, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC). | Continue reading
Taipei, April 3 (CNA) The indefinite closure of 3M's semiconductor coolant plant in Belgium could have a major impact on the global semiconductor industry, which Taiwan has a leading role in, market analysts said Sunday. | Continue reading
Taipei, March 24 (CNA) A Taiwanese legislator claimed Thursday that organizers of the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy faced demands from Chinese diplomats to label works by Taiwanese illustrator Cho Pei-hsin (卓霈欣) as coming from "Taiwan, China." | Continue reading
Taipei, March 17 (CNA) A clinical study in Taiwan on mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccine boosters has found that the Moderna brand is the most effective when administered as the third shot, the director of the study said Thursday. | Continue reading
Taipei, Oct. 26 (CNA) Taiwan's military on Tuesday unveiled a locally-made military-use powered exoskeleton suit, a mechanized wearable system designed to be used in wartime and on post-disaster rescue and relief missions. | Continue reading
Brussels, Sept. 1 (CNA) The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday passed a report and related amendments to enhance European Union-Taiwan relations, including a call on the EU to begin preparing for the possible signing of a Bilateral Investment Agreement ( … | Continue reading
Taipei, May 24 (CNA) Taiwan has expressed its "deep displeasure" at not getting invited to this year's World Health Assembly (WHA) and being excluded from the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO) for a fifth consecutive year. | Continue reading
Washington, April 30 (CNA) The U.S. State Department has called for Taiwan to be allowed to participate in the upcoming World Health Assembly (WHA), citing Taiwan's successful efforts against COVID-19 and it assistance to other countries during the pandemic. | Continue reading
Taipei, April 3 (CNA) Taiwan's exports bucked a global downtrend in 2020, rising to the 15th highest in the world, up two notches from the previous year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Finance (MOF). | Continue reading
Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Eight Taiwanese graphic illustrators were among 77 selected to participate in the 55th Illustrators Exhibition to be held online during the Bologna Children's Book Fair in June, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) said Thursday. | Continue reading
Taipei, June 16 (CNA) Taiwan issued 240 employment gold cards to foreign professionals in the first five months of this year, an increase of 77.8 percent from a year earlier, according to the National Development Council (NDC) Tuesday. | Continue reading
Taipei, April 17 (CNA) When a warning of a mysterious virus sent by a whistleblowing Chinese doctor began filtering out of China at the end of 2019, it marked the starting point of the public phase of the COVID-19 epidemic. | Continue reading
Taipei, March 19 (CNA) An employee of contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has been infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which has resulted in home quarantining of 30 others who had close contact with the patient, the company reported Wedn … | Continue reading
Taipei and London, March 27 (CNA) The BBC has pulled a story saying that a British woman was being "incarcerated" in quarantine in Taiwan amid the global new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, a story that was apparently written without the woman's knowledge. | Continue reading
Japan wants to make reducing the glut of plastic waste in the oceans a priority at the Group of 20 summit it is hosting this month as governments around the world crack down on such pollution. Images of plastic debris-strewn beaches and dead animals with stomachs full of plastic … | Continue reading