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Jealous Hubby Kills Guy for Facebook Flirting: Cops

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:08:41 CDT

A little bit of Facebook flirting ended very, very badly for Chuang Shih-chang: Police say the 40-year-old Taiwanese man was beaten to death by another man, 34-year-old Chou You-huang, after Chou discovered Chuang had been flirting with his wife. Chou told police that he asked to meet with Chuang, the...

Taiwan Re-Elects China-Friendly Prez

Mark Russell — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:21:42 CST

Taiwan has re-elected President Ma Ying-jeou, in a move that might make China smile, but not so fast: Ma says he's more interested in building economic ties with the mainland than re-unifying, reports Bloomberg . Ma won a second term in yesterday's elections, beating the pro-independence opposition candidate 51.6% to...

Dog Poop Lottery Cleans Up City

Matt Cantor — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:55:13 CST

Faced with an excess of dog mess, a Taiwanese city developed a novel solution: Scoop the poop and win a prize. Sounds like it worked. Some 4,000 people presented authorities in New Taipei City with 14,500 bags of feces, cutting local dog poop by half, the BBC reports....

China to US: Cancel Taiwan Arms Deal

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:14:05 CDT

China is harshly denouncing a US arms deal with Taiwan announced yesterday, calling for the US ambassador to China to protest the deal and warning that it will harm US-China ties if it is not canceled. The Obama administration notified Congress of the $5.8 billion plan yesterday; it would...

Typhoon Kills 10 in Philippines

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:13:05 CDT

Typhoon Nanmadol began blowing toward Taiwan today after leaving at least 10 people dead and scuttling a visit by a US Navy carrier group in the Philippines, officials said. Taiwan issued sea and land warnings and planned to evacuate about 6,000 people in its eastern and southern regions as...

Exercising 15 Minutes Daily Adds Years to Life: Study

Tim Karan — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:12:05 CDT

What's more important to you: saving about 15 minutes every day or three years later on? Exercising 92 minutes per week could substantially extend your life, according to a new study. Researchers in Taiwan studied more than 400,000 subjects between 1996 and 2008, and deduced that those who exercised...

Suicide-Plagued Foxconn to Swap People for Robots

Matt Cantor — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:25:05 CDT

Foxconn, the suicide-plagued maker of millions of Apple products in China, plans to use as many as one million robots on its assembly line within three years—compared to just 10,000 today, a Chinese report says. Increasing labor costs is a major driver behind the move, reports Reuters . "This...

Food Blogger Jailed for Complaining About Noodles

Kevin Spak — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:38:05 CDT

Be careful what you blog about in Taiwan. One woman, identified only as Mrs. Liu, learned that lesson the hard way recently, after she complained on her little-read blog about the Sichuan Flavor Beef Noodle Restaurant in Taichung. The place, she wrote, was full of cockroaches, the owner was a...

Hu Jintao Warns US to Back Off on Tibet, Taiwan

John Johnson — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:36:30 CST

Hu Jintao is willing to make diplomatic nice-nice on all facets of US-China relations—with two important exceptions, reports the Christian Science Monitor . Taiwan and Tibet. Both "concern China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and they represent China's core interests," he told US business leaders today. "We should treat each other...