Taipei

For Taiwan's Olympics team, everything is in a name

By Huizhong Wu Feb. 02, 2022 12:05 AM EST

In this photo released by the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, a China Airlines cargo plane carrying COVID-19 vaccines from Memphis arrive at the airport outside Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, June 20, 2021. The U.S. sent 2.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan on Sunday, tripling an earlier pledge in a donation with both public health and geopolitical meaning. (Taiwan Centers for Disease Control via AP)

US sends Taiwan 2.5 million vaccine doses, tripling pledge

Jun. 19, 2021 11:55 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 18, 2021, file photo, medical personnel wearing protective gear, guide people at a rapid coronavirus testing center after the infection alert rose to level 3 in Taipei, Taiwan. After a year of success, Taiwan is struggling with its largest outbreak since the pandemic began. When locally transmitted cases started being found in May 2021, it soon became clear that the central government was ill prepared not only to contain them, but to even detect them on a large scale due to a lack of investment in and a bias against rapid testing. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Taiwan struggles with testing backlog amid largest outbreak

By Huizhong Wu May. 27, 2021 12:16 AM EDT

A man walks past monitors showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo Friday, May 21, 2021. Asian shares were mixed Friday after a rebound on Wall Street broke a three-day losing streak. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Asian stocks mixed after Wall St rebound breaks 3-day slump

By Elaine Kurtenbach May. 20, 2021 02:53 AM EDT

A health worker administers a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to Buddhist monk at Priest Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Thailand had about 7,100 cases, including 63 deaths, in all of last year, in what was regarded as a success story. Taxi drivers are starved for customers, weddings are suddenly canceled, schools are closed, and restaurant service is restricted across much of Asia as the coronavirus makes a resurgence in countries where it had seemed to be well under control. (AP Photo/Anuthep Cheysakron)

Restrictions reimposed as virus resurges in much of Asia

By Huizhong Wu And Zen Soo May. 19, 2021 12:07 AM EDT

People wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus at a night market in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Success story Taiwan faces its worst outbreak in pandemic

May. 15, 2021 04:11 AM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2015, file photo, Mt. Everest is seen from the way to Kalapatthar in Nepal. China will draw a “separation line” atop Mount Everest to prevent the coronavirus from being spread by climbers ascending Nepal's side of the mountain, Chinese state media reported Monday. (AP Photo/Tashi Sherpa, File)

The Latest: Florida's amusement parks loosen mask wearing

By The Associated Press May. 15, 2021 01:26 AM EDT

Monks and nuns pray together during Buddha's Birthday celebrations at the Lin Chi Temple in Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, May 9, 2021. Buddha's birthday is celebrated in East Asia on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

16 new cases cause worry in Taiwan, Tsai says don't panic

May. 12, 2021 04:02 AM EDT

Workers stand near mock graves representing the deaths of labor rights during a May Day rally in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, May 1, 2021. Workers in Indonesia marked international labor day on Saturday curtailed by strict limits on public gatherings to express anger at a new law they say could harm labor rights and welfare. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Workers protest Indonesia's labor law in May Day rallies

By Niniek Karmini And Andi Jatmiko May. 01, 2021 02:10 AM EDT

Chipmaker TSMC says profit up 16.7% as demand revives

Apr. 15, 2021 02:37 AM EDT
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips, said Thursday quarterly profit rose...

Chipmaker TSMC says revenue up 16.7% as demand surges

Apr. 09, 2021 06:18 AM EDT

Taiwanese traveler Kuo Yitting of the first group of Palau-Taiwan Travel Corridor shows her boarding pass and a report of virus antigen test before leaving Taiwan, at Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, Thursday, April 1, 2021. The Palau-Taiwan Travel Corridor, allowing people to travel between the islands without a COVID-19 quarantine, has started Thursday. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Taiwan tourists head for Palau after travel bubble launches

Apr. 01, 2021 01:08 AM EDT

In this photo released by Executive Yuan, Taiwan's Premier Su Tseng-chang looks at a bottle of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine before being vaccinated at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, March 22, 2021. Health care workers received the first shots in Taiwan's COVID-19 vaccination drive Monday, beginning a campaign that won't use supplies from China amid uneven distribution of the vaccines globally. (Executive Yuan via AP)

Taiwan gives health workers island's 1st AstraZeneca doses

By Huizhong Wu Mar. 22, 2021 12:00 AM EDT

Correction: Virus Outbreak-China-US story

Mar. 01, 2021 11:07 AM EST
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — In a story March 1, 2021, about Chinese plans to vaccinate 40% of its population by June, The Associated Press erroneously reported that...

In this image from video, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech at the Office of the President in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. Tsai hailed the island's progress in containing the coronavirus pandemic and growing the economy while facing military threats from China. (AP Photo/Wu Taijing)

Tsai credits Taiwan for virus wins, notes China's threats

Dec. 31, 2020 10:21 PM EST

Taiwanese actress Chen Shu-fang holds her awards for Best Leading Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the 57th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. Chen won for the film "Dear Tenant" at this year's Golden Horse Awards - one of the Chinese-language film industry's biggest annual events. (AP Photo/Billy Dai)

'My Missing Valentine' wins big at Golden Horse Awards

By Huizhong Wu Nov. 21, 2020 07:02 AM EST

List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press Nov. 09, 2020 04:29 PM EST
AQUATICS Asian water polo championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, from Feb. 12-16 canceled. Diving Grand Prix in...

Participants march through a street during a pride parade in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Huge crowd joins LGBT march in Taiwan, where COVID is at bay

Oct. 31, 2020 07:51 AM EDT

U.S. Under Secretary of State Keith Krach, center, gestures after disembarking from a plane upon arrival at the air force base airport in Taipei, Taiwan on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. Krach is in Taiwan on Thursday for the second visit by a high-level American official in two months, prompting a stern warning and threat of possible retaliation from China. (Pool Photo via AP Photo)

US envoy begins second recent high-level visit to Taiwan

By Huizhong Wu Sep. 17, 2020 06:17 AM EDT

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft, right, meets James K.J. Lee, director-general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, for lunch at a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

US envoy to United Nations meets with Taiwan official in NY

By Edith M. Lederer Sep. 17, 2020 12:02 AM EDT