Tax revenue came in at a historic high of NT$2.1184 trillion last year, nearly half of which was individual income tax (綜所稅) and profit-seeking enterprise income tax (營所稅).

Ten people, mostly foreigners, were killed on Tuesday when a Syrian suicide bomber blew himself up in Istanbul's busiest tourist district, in the latest deadly attack to hit the country.

An initial investigation by the Tourism Bureau has shown that there were no Taiwanese tour groups in a popular tourist area of Istanbul, Turkey when an explosion occurred there Tuesday, with at least 10 people reported killed.

Ko Wen-chang (柯文昌), chairman of WK Technology Fund (普訊創投), began serving a nine-year prison sentence for insider trading Tuesday.

U.S. President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address Tuesday night is his last high-profile opportunity to speak to the public before voting in the first presidential nominating contests begins on Feb. 1 with the Iowa caucuses.

China's auto sales rose 18.3 percent in December over a year earlier on explosive demand for SUVs, pushing the year's total sales to 21.1 million, an industry group reported Tuesday.

DAMASCUS, Syria -- The U.N. humanitarian chief has called for Monday's delivery of aid to three besieged towns in Syria to be the first of many and welcomed a Syrian statement that such deliveries should be repeated and sustained.

BEIJING -- Wanda Group announced Tuesday it is buying Hollywood's Legendary Entertainment, the maker of films such as "Batman," for $3.5 billion in the first Chinese acquisition of a major U.S. film company.

ISTANBUL -- An explosion at Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district, which is popular with tourists, has injured several people on Tuesday, Turkish media reports said.

Taiwan has a 55-percent chance of encountering recession in 2016, reported Bloomberg, which inducted the nation into its inglorious Recession Club on Monday.

China's stock market resumed its volatile plunges on Monday, as worries over the slowing economy and the authorities' ability to manage it sent traders fleeing, dealers said.