Gold and silver advanced as trading began in the new year, building on their best annual performances since 1979. Bullion ...

Shares in Taiwan closed at a new high yesterday, the first trading day of the new year, as contract chipmaker Taiwan ...

Manchester City FC trail Arsenal FC by four points at the top of the Premier League after failing to end Sunderland AFC’s ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) is to host South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on a state visit starting tomorrow, signaling Beijing’s intent to deepen ties with Seoul amidst strained relations ...

Taiwan’s manufacturing sector wrapped up last year with its strongest expansion in more than 18 months, buoyed by a surge in production of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and ...

Indonesia yesterday began enforcing its newly ratified penal code, replacing a Dutch-era criminal law that had governed the country for more than 80 years and marking a major shift in its legal ...

The Legislative Yuan yesterday approved the Executive Yuan’s proposal for stricter China travel rules for officials for committee review, but blocked its proposed amendments on public speech on the ...

The first place in the world to legalize voluntary euthanasia 31 years ago could this year become the last part of Australia to secure the same legal reform, as the Northern Territory government ...

A police investigation has found that a man who went on a stabbing spree in Taipei last month acted alone and that the fall from a building that killed him was not an accident, but police remain ...

A labor broker last week was fined more than NT$10 million (US$318,279) for illegally charging migrant workers job-placement fees. The Ministry of Labor said that the broker over-collected about NT$1 ...

Sebastian Baez and Solana Sierra led Argentina to an unassailable 2-0 lead over Spain yesterday to begin the ATP-WTA United Cup and clinch only the nation’s second win from seven ties played at the ...

Investigators yesterday set about the painful task of identifying the burned bodies of a blaze that engulfed a crowded bar and killed about 40 people at a New Year’s Eve party in the upscale Swiss ski ...