Taipei, March 11 (IANS) Around 300 people participated in an annual march in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, to mark the 1959 Tibetan uprising, with organisers warning that China’s “expansion of authoritarian rule will not stop in just one place,” local media reported. Chairman of the Tibet Religious Foundation, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, Kelsang Gyaltsen Bawa, said, “Tibet’s story is also a reminder to the world, especially Taiwan,” Central News Agency (CNA) reported.”The expansion of autho…
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Taipei, March 9 (IANS) Taipei on Monday rejected Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent remarks about Taiwan, terming Beijing as a “troublemaker” in the international community and a “saboteur of cross-strait peace”, local media reported. Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung said that Taiwan has always been an independent sovereign nation and “neither the ROC [Republic of China] nor the PRC [People’s Republic of China] are subordinate to each other,” Taiwan’s leading daily T…
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) A bipartisan group of senior U.S. lawmakers has urged Taiwan’s leadership to significantly increase defence spending, warning that partial funding of a supplementary defence budget could weaken efforts to deter PRC “aggression”. U.S. Senators Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Pete Ricketts, and Chris Coons, along with Representatives Young Kim and Ami Bera, led a bipartisan, bicameral letter to the leadership of Taiwan’s Legislati…
Leh (Ladakh), Jan 21 (IANS) The first gold medal of Khelo India Winter Games (KIWG) 2026 was decided at the Nawang Dorjan Stobdan (NDS) Stadium in Leh, Ladakh, on Wednesday. Of the four decided, all in figure skating, Haryana bagged two gold medals, while Uttarakhand and Kerala bagged one each. Haryana is on top of the standings with five medals overall, including 1 silver and two bronze.Figure skating made its debut in the Ladakh leg of the Khelo India Winter Games (KIWG) 2026. An Olympic event…
Taipei, Jan 5 (IANS) Taiwanese government has accused China of transnational repression after Chinese state media and social media accounts shared personal information regarding Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Puma Shen, which included satellite pictures of his house and workplace in Taipei, local media reported. Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that China’s state-controlled media were using “digital authoritarianism” and the “despicable” way of doxxing to threaten Taiwa…