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A self-proclaimed 'bikini climber' has died tragically. She would have been frozen after a fall of twenty meters, Taiwan's media reported.

The Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen on Saturday called for international support to defend democracy and lifestyle of the island against the new threats from China....

The well-known American gun fanatic Cody Wilson, who is suspected of having sex with a minor, was arrested in a hotel in the Taiwan capital Taipei. That's what Taiwan media report on Friday.

Taiwan has upset the Chinese government because Beijing would have banned the new Walt Disney movie about Winnie the Pooh. According to some media, the Chinese ban has been instituted because the Chinese president Xi Jinping on the internet is often mockingly compared with the teddy bear.

After the devastating earthquake in the Taiwan city of Hualien, the death toll has risen to seventeen. According to Chinese state television, the bodies of a missing family of five members from China were found on Friday.

Taiwan has again been hit by an earthquake on the east coast of the island, this time with a strength of 5.7. According to the central government, the earthquake took place in the vicinity of Hualien, the same area that was hit by a strong earthquake on Tuesday and where the rescue work is still ongoing.

The earthquake off the east coast of Taiwan has at least killed four people. Another 145 are missing, local authorities report Wednesday.

A major earthquake with a force of 6.4 on the Richter scale caused a great havoc in Taiwan. A hotel collapsed, among other things.

The Taiwanese government has abandoned statements by Chinese leader Xi Jinping. He once again made it clear that he would never allow the island state of China to turn back.

HTC is likely to get big news on Thursday. The company does not want to say what it's all about, but according to a Bloomberg reporter, it has already stopped trading in shares around the announcement.

In a typhoon in Taiwan, eighty-eight people are injured on Sunday. This is mainly about rescue workers affected by the debris, according to the Taiwanese government. Hundreds of thousands of people came without power.

HTC launched its newest U11 smartphone on Tuesday, which allows users to launch apps by pinching the side of the phone. It is the first smartphone with this operating technology next to the touchscreen.

HTC works on a smartphone that is operated by squeezing in the side. That smartphone, the HTC U, must be presented on May 16th. HTC has sent the invitations to the presentation, with the slogan: '' Bring for the brilliant U ''.

Chip maker Qualcomm's counterattack on Apple. That was in January filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm, which has filed a counter claim. Qualcomm says Apple violates contractual agreements and lying about the contents of agreements. Moreover, Apple would lie to unleash Supervisors Qualcomm. Qualcomm says that Apple is trying to force the company to silence.

Certainly 32 people on Monday killed by a crash of a coach at a Taiwanese highway. The bus was carrying 45 passengers, thirteen of them are wounded to hospitals nearby.

Asus also comes with a mini-computer, a competitor of the Raspberry Pi. The Tinker Board is 8.6 centimeters long and 5.3 centimeters wide. He has 2 gigabytes of RAM, twice as much as the Pi, and has a 1-gigabit speed, ten times as fast as the Pi. However, it is also about twice as expensive as the Pi.

The future US president Donald Trump will provisionally maintain the current sanctions against Russia. So says the man who next week as US president is sworn in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

HTC has presented Thursday the U and U Ultra Play. The new smartphones from the Taiwanese manufacturer have a smart assistant that adapts to you thanks to artificial intelligence and machine learning, and you can always help better. The phones can recognize your voice and unlock his therewith.

Taiwan on Wednesday fighters and naval create deployed to monitor passing Chinese warships. The warships enter through the narrow Taiwan Strait between China and the island.

The call from the Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen in her future American counterpart Donald Trump ' a petty act '' of Taiwan. That said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Saturday, reported the Hong Kong Phoenix Television.

By three explosions at a train in the center of Taiwan's capital Taipei are least 21 people injured. According to a television channel said the explosion in the evening rather than in a carriage that was filled with commuters.

Residents of the Taiwanese capital Taipei on Tuesday rocked by an earthquake. The quake, according to the US Geological Survey USGS magnitude 6.4.

The organizer of a fateful party at a water park in Taiwan has been sentenced to four years and ten months in prison, reports. He is accused of negligence. During the party, a fire broke out, fifteen people died. More than five hundred people were injured.

A three year old girl in broad daylight in the middle of the street decapitated by a passerby in Taipei, Taiwan. The man was known to the police and was arrested.

Authorities in the Taiwanese city of Tainan started an investigation into the collapse of a building during the earthquake of Saturday. While the rescue operations at the complex were still in progress, arrived Sunday a team of four prosecutors at the crash site.

Rescue workers in a collapsed apartment building in the Taiwanese city of Tainan still looking for over 120 people. The emergency services have according to Mayor William Lai effort to reach a large proportion of the victims.

Taiwan's population seems to have expected such short shrift with the ruling pro-Chinese Kuomintang party. Tsai Ing-wen booked according to initial exit polls with hair-Democratic Progressive Party a major victory.