On March 23, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. March 22 (UPI) ...

TAIPEI--Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, who brought direct elections and other democratic changes to the self-governed island despite missile launches and other fierce saber-rattling by ...

The Japanese government did not approve a visit by former Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen last July to attend a memorial ...

In January 1988, one of Taiwan’s most senior nuclear engineers defected to the United States after passing crucial intelligence on a top-secret program that would alter the course of Taiwan’s history.

When Taiwan in the early 1990s shed its military-backed autocracy, Havel and the Czech transition became a model for President Lee Teng-hui, who led Taiwan’s shift to democracy. After Havel’s ...

Back then, Taiwan was not the wealthy and vibrant democracy it is today. It was a developing economy under the autocratic rule of the Chinese Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang. That regime ...

TAIPEI--The Taiwanese government on Friday said it will hold a state funeral for former President Lee Teng-hui, a figure respected on the island for ending autocratic rule but branded by mainland ...

Malaysia's professional men's singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia is expected to clear the first round of the All England Championships in Birmingham, where he is drawn to play Hong Kong's Ng Ka Long.

Familiar rivals from Indonesia Apriyani Rahayu-Siti Fadia Ramadhanti could derail national No. 1 Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah's hopes in the women's doubles in the All-England starting on Tuesday in ...