Kaohsiung

Taiwan woke up Monday to toppled trees, floods, and persistent rainfall after Typhoon Haikui made landfall on the island and swept overnight across its central mountain ranges.

Haikui initially appeared to leave the island but made a second landfall early Monday in southwestern Kaohsiung, before it was downgraded to a severe tropical storm.

China's People's Liberation Army has begun military exercises involving live fire on the waters and in the airspace around the island of Taiwan, Chinese state television reported on Thursday.

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A British expat living in Taiwan angered his wife when he made the drunken decision to tattoo the island’s name on his forehead in huge Chinese characters.

At least six people were killed when a magnitude-6.4 earthquake hit Taiwan Saturday morning, according to Chinese CTI News TV citing statements of Taiwanese Disaster Response Center.

A series of powerful gas blasts killed at least 24 people and injured up to 271 in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, overturning cars and ripping up roads, officials said on Aug. 1.

The explosions sparked a massive inferno that tore through the city’s Cianjhen district, sending terrified residents fleeing a huge ball of flames.

Taiwan's TransAsia Airways said July 24 that 48 people were killed and 10 survived when one of its turboprop passenger planes crashed after an aborted landing during stormy weather.