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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 23

    Join the Focus Taiwan/CNA English News team! We are looking for a full-time copy editor and several full-time writers for Focus Taiwan, the English department of CNA’s Foreign Language News Center. Details:

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  2. 32 minutes ago

    Taiwan on Sunday reported 39 new cases of COVID-19, all but two of which were domestic infections, as well as two deaths from the disease. To date, 688 people in Taiwan have died of .

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  3. 2 hours ago

    Taiwanese sisters Latisha Chan (詹詠然) and Chan Hao-ching (詹皓晴), as well as Hsieh Su-wei (謝淑薇), advanced to the women's doubles third round at on Saturday, after beating their opponents.

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  4. 4 hours ago

    Taiwan will enjoy cloudy to sunny skies on Sunday, with the exception of thundershowers in the afternoon and sporadic rainfall in the evening in some regions, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).

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  5. 5 hours ago

    The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Sunday

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  6. 5 hours ago

    Three Taipei City health officials have been reassigned over a scandal involving clinics administering vaccines to people not eligible to receive them, while the head of the city's health department chief has been put on leave.

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  7. 6 hours ago

    From CNA's Japanese site 台湾産「玉荷包」ライチ、豪市場に初進出 官民連携で困難を克服

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  8. 7 hours ago

    Chen Su-chen (陳素貞), widow of democracy activist Chen Wen-chen (陳文成), said in an open letter that she hopes President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) will take action to uncover the truth about the 40-year-old case during the three years she has left in office.

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  9. 8 hours ago

    The sector continues to ride the wave of a booming global stay-at-home economy, with solid demand for emerging tech gadgets used in remote work and online learning.

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  10. 9 hours ago

    A Taiwan-based American YouTuber has collected over 400 messages of gratitude from his viewers, edited them into a letter and sent it to members of the United States Congress in response to the U.S. donation of 2.5 million vaccine doses to Taiwan.

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  11. 16 hours ago

    "Over the past two days, the Central Epidemic Command Center has been drafting guidelines (to ease the restrictions), and it is planning to move in this direction," Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said at a press conference.

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  12. 17 hours ago

    Noriko Murakoshi, CEO of Yang San Lang Museum in Taipei, poses with two oil paintings by her late father-in-law, including one depicting a sunrise on Taiwan's Yushan (right), in Tokyo on Friday.

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  13. 17 hours ago

    A black-crowned night heron is pictured at Taipei's wholesale poultry market in the early hours of Saturday.

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  14. 17 hours ago

    Over 184,000 people received a vaccine shot on Friday, the highest number in a single day since Taiwan rolled out its vaccination program in March, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center.

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  15. 18 hours ago

    Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Saturday it has not received news of any Taiwanese casualties following a landslide in central Japan's Shizuoka prefecture earlier in the day.

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  16. 19 hours ago

    Taipei City plans to test several thousand residents in neighborhoods around Hulin Street and Yongchun Market for on Sunday, in response to "sporadic infections" discovered in the area over the past month.

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  17. 20 hours ago

    Two more Taiwanese weightlifters have had their places at the upcoming confirmed following the reallocation of quota places.

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  18. 21 hours ago

    Taiwan on Saturday reported 80 new cases of , as well as 10 deaths from the disease, and continued to battle a cluster of infections at wholesale markets in Taipei. To date, three Taipei markets have reported more than 200 cases.

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  19. 22 hours ago

    Neither Hon Hai Precision nor Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. provided further details Saturday following a Reuters report that both have reached an initial agreement to buy 5 million doses of the vaccine.

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  20. 23 hours ago

    "The most important task at this present moment is to curb the further spread of a outbreak," Premier Su Tseng-chang said one day after Taipei reported 41 cases at Taipei's Huannan Market.

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  21. Jul 2

    Taiwan on Saturday reported 80 new cases of COVID-19, all but four of which were domestic infections, as well as 10 deaths from the disease. To date, 686 people in Taiwan have died of .

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