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Taipei - Two Taiwan twins collaborated to cheat the army when one posed as his brother to serve, a newspaper said Wednesday. 

Taipei - Taiwan stocks slumped 4.5 per cent Tuesday to hit their lowest level in 52 weeks, weighed down by Wall Street's overnight fall and the local financial sector's exposure to troubled US mor

Taipei - Taiwan wants to apply for world cultural heritage status for its sky lantern festival, but may meet obstacles as it is not a member of the United Nations, an official said Monday.

Taipei - Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), came under fire Monday from opposition lawmakers who said it was selling out the island to China by promoting cross-strait unification.

Lai Ching-te, caucus leader of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), criticized the KMT, referring to a controversial statement made by KMT Vice Chairman Kuan Chung during a visit to China earlier this month. Kuan said it was a KMT goal to unify Taiwan and China.

"Unification will take care of itself if the KMT remains as governing party for a long time," Kuan was quoted as saying by China's state-run People's Daily newspaper last week.