An Air Force twin-seater Mirage 2000-5 jet fighter crashed into waters west of Hsinchu in Northern Taiwan yesterday morning, but its pilots ejected to safety before the plane hit the water, according to Air Force Command Headquarters.

With heavy rainfall lashing the country, President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday canceled an event to mark the five-year anniversary of his inauguration in order to monitor disaster-prevention efforts.

The revised stock gains tax was approved in a preliminary vote in the Legislative Yuan yesterday, and is expected to be passed after a third reading next Friday at the earliest.

th Taiwan's 4G LTE spectrum sale set to open in September, a draft outline for the country's WiMAX wireless service operators has been confirmed for release in June, Minister Without Portfolio Simon Chang (張善政) said yesterday.

An engineer may have to pay his former employer up to NT$400 million in compensation after leaking photos of the Samsung Galaxy S III before its release last year.

In what was described as a “surprise attack,” opposition lawmakers yesterday passed portions of their non-nuclear homeland draft bill during a legislative session, while Kuomintang (KMT) lawmakers called for cross-party negotiations after they learned of the results.

Taiwan's participation as an observer in the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), has become normalized, Taiwan's Health Minister said Monday.

Taiwan could see heavy rainfall until May 23, with the arrival of the strongest weather front since start the of plum rain season, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said yesterday.

The main opposing party released eight proposals to President Ma Ying-jeou on his fifth anniversary in power yesterday, calling for the president to stop wasting political resources and to push for Taiwan's development.

Local think tank Taiwan Brain Trust (新台灣國策智庫) released its most recent survey results yesterday, showing that 44.3 percent of Taiwanese would feel insecure if the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was in power, while 41.6 percent expressed confidence in the DPP.