Topic: Tsai Ing

Jailed former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai took the stand for the first time Wednesday in his trial on conspiracy to collude with foreign powers and publishing seditious anti-government material.

The Washington-based Hudson Institute this week said it will bring on former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley as its new Walter P. Stern Chair.

Taiwan officials have at least nine died and nearly 1,000 injured in the strongest earthquake to hit the island in 25 years, officials said.

Taiwan's choice of president in the January elections sent a strong message that the island nation wants to maintain its autonomy from China, but voters also denied the president-elect's party a legislative majority.

Rep. Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House select committee on China, is leading a bipartisan delegation to Taiwan as the United States continues to deepen its relationship with the self-governing island.

Taiwan's Lai Ching-te, the presidential candidate from the incumbent Democratic Progressive Party, won a landslide victory on Saturday as the island of 23 million sent a powerful message to China.

Taiwanese voters will head to the polls Saturday for an election with geopolitical implications that resonate far beyond the borders of the self-governing island of 23 million.

A Chinese satellite launch Tuesday inadvertently triggered missile attack alerts in neighboring Taiwan after the Long March rocket unexpectedly passed over the southwestern edge of the island's defense airspace.

Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted in his New Year's address his country will "surely" be reunited with Taiwan as the island nation prepares to hold its presidential elections.

After recently leaving her post as Taiwan's envoy to the United States, Bi-khim Hsiao appears headed to become her country's next vice president, according to public opinion polls.