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Early 2000s. UTC+08:00. National Standard Time. 國家標準時間. Guójiā Biāozhǔn Shíjiān. 2000s. The first time zone standard in Taiwan was enforced on 1 January 1896, [2] the second year of Taiwan under Japanese rule. The standard was called Western Standard Time (西部標準時) with time offset of UTC+08:00, based on 120°E longitude.
Local experts agree that Taiwan has its work cut out for it in defending against cyberwarfare and disinformation campaigns, especially at a time when artifical intelligence is making "truth" much ...
The elderly incumbent president of Taiwan loses re-election to a younger female challenger and prepares to hand over the office. As the political transition is underway and inauguration day approaches, a PLANAF Shaanxi Y-8 anti-submarine warfare aircraft goes down in the waters southeast of Taiwan (implied to be an act of surreptitious internal sabotage as part of a false flag operation), [8 ...
The two Inter-city rail systems, Taiwan Railways and Taiwan High Speed Rail, have several overlaps in station names. See below Taiwan High Speed Rail section for their relations in detail. There are five rapid transit systems in Taiwan: Taipei Metro, opened in March 1996, serves the core of Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area.
Lai Ching-te sat down with TIME for his first interview since being sworn in as President of Taiwan, talking candidly about China, the U.S., and more.
On 3 April 2024, at 07:58:11 NST (23:58:11 UTC on 2 April), a Mw 7.4 earthquake struck 15 km (9.3 mi) [ 4] south of Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan. At least 18 people were killed and over 1,100 were injured in the earthquake. It is the strongest earthquake in Taiwan since the 1999 Jiji earthquake, [ 5] with three aftershocks above M w 6.0.
Taiwan, [ II][ j] officially the Republic of China ( ROC ), [ I][ k] is a country [ 27] in East Asia. [ n] The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the ...
July. The Dutch occupy Keelung [ 25] September. Qing commander Shi Lang leads a fleet of warships to invade Taiwan but is turned back by bad weather [ 25] Chinese population in Taiwan rises to 50,000 [ 26] 1665. May. Shi Lang attempts to invade Taiwan but his fleet is scattered by a storm [ 25] 1666.