Video footage shows that entertainer Makiyo joined her Japanese friend in assaulting a taxi driver, local TV news reports alleged yesterday.

A crucial meeting between Greece's Prime Minister and debt inspectors on averting default and a possible exit from the euro ended early Thursday with no definite results.

Police forces around Taiwan will step up checks in the coming days to see if passengers in the back seats of cars are wearing seat belts, as mandated by a new law that takes effect today.

On Friday, Jan. 6, I took the MRT at Taipei Main Station. A young white male foreigner standing across from me took a cigarette from behind his ear and proceded to put it in his mouth.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other leaders in the left-leaning ALBA bloc backed Argentina on Saturday in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.

Officials of the Atomic Energy Council (AEC) clarified yesterday that the council will abide by the regulations when conducting medical and toxic dynamic experimentation using beagle dogs.

Last week, a group of university students praised Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen for her stance on gender equality, specifically pointing out for admiration Tsai's promises to protect gay rights. It is of course, election season.

Independent labs found pesticides on 43 of 58 types of supermarket produce, according to a Greenpeace report released yesterday. Of these 43, eleven contained illegal pesticides.

Taiwan's defeated opposition party on Monday accused the United States of taking sides in the Jan. 14 presidential vote which led to the re-election of incumbent Ma Ying-jeou.

China on Tuesday vowed to crack down on unrest in Tibetan areas and accused overseas activist groups and the Dalai Lama of fomenting the recent violence.