Type | Online newspaper |
---|---|
Format | Online |
Owner(s) | I-Mei Foods |
Publisher | Luis Ko |
Founded | 1949 (as China News) |
Political alignment | Pan-Green [1] |
Headquarters | Taipei, Taiwan |
Website | www |
Taiwan News | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Traditional Chinese | 臺灣 英文 新聞 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 台湾 英文 新闻 | ||||||||
Literal meaning | Taiwan English News | ||||||||
| |||||||||
Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 英文 臺灣 日報 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 英文 台湾 日报 | ||||||||
Literal meaning | English Taiwan Daily | ||||||||
| |||||||||
China News | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 英文 中國 日報 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 英文 中国 日报 | ||||||||
Literal meaning | English China Daily | ||||||||
|
Taiwan News (formerly China News [2] ) is an English-language online newspaper and former print newspaper in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was purchased by I-Mei Foods in the 1997,who eventually transitioned the publication to a fully online venture. I-Mei also publishes the Chinese-language news weekly of the same name. [1]
Under the ownership of I-Mei Foods,Taiwan News changed its editorial stance from being pro-KMT to being in favor of the Pan-Green coalition and Taiwan independence. [1] [3] : 1858 According to former editor Anthony Lawrance,Taiwan News opposes autocracies and the People's Republic of China. [3] : 1858 In the late 1990s,Taiwan News rejected Chinese unification as advocated by the Kuomintang and associations of Taiwan with the People's Republic of China under the "one country,two systems" principle. [3] : 1858
China News was founded on 6 June 1949 in Taipei by James Wei, [4] a journalist with close ties to the KMT and former employee of the Ministry of Information. [3] : 1858 The newspaper was established to cater for foreign residents and the local population in Taiwan. [3] : 1858 At the time it was the only English-language daily newspaper in Taiwan and it was a newspaper published in the afternoon. Later on,in order to compete with its new competitor,China News had to change and was published in the morning in order not to lose its advertisements. [1]
In 1960,the newspaper switched to block printing in a full-size page format. [2]
Wei left the newspaper in 1965. Wei was also a Reuters correspondent and deputy director of the Central News Agency. During his later years he was the sixth Director of the Government Information Office,serving from October 31,1966,to June 1,1972. Wei was a close advisor to Chiang Ching-kuo. [5] [6]
China News ran into financial difficulties in 1996 and received capital injection from I-Mei Foods,but the management of the newspaper was unchanged. [3] : 1858 In May 1999,I-Mei Foods acquired 50 percent stake in the newspaper for NTD$60 million (US$1.8 million). [4] The newspaper's name was changed to Taiwan News to reflect the newspaper's new focus on readers in Taiwan and to avoid confusion with China Daily and China News Service. [4] After the change in ownership,Taiwan News increased its page count and lowered staff wages. [7] [4] Under the ownership of I-Mei Foods,Simone Wei became the newspaper's chairperson and I-Mei CEO Kao Chih-ming became the publisher. [8]
By 1998,63 percent of Taiwan News' readership were local readers and the rest were businesspeople,diplomats,academics,teachers and students from outside Taiwan. [9] : 149 Former editor Anthony Lawrance said in 2001 that Taiwan News mainly republished wire stories and had few articles with original reporting due to a lack of financial resources to hire English-speaking journalists and produce good translations from Chinese news articles,the high turnover of foreign editorial staff and the absence of an English speaking environment in Taiwan. [3] : 1859
In 2010,Taiwan News went digital and simultaneously ended its weekly financial and cultural magazine. [10] In 2015,Taiwan News became an all-digital publication when it ended all print editions. [11]
During the COVID-19 pandemic,Taiwan News reported on screenshots claiming the real death toll in Wuhan was leaked on Tencent's website in early 2020 before reverting back to the official numbers. [12] [13] The same claim had been picked up by New Tang Dynasty Television and was later reported by Western media. Health officials said it was unlikely to be true. [14] The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation could not verify the claim against web archives and showed that the screenshots could have been fabricated,but the author of the Taiwan News report defended his article,saying the people he interviewed had "testified to it". [15] [16]
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a centre to centre-left Taiwanese nationalist political party in Taiwan. It is currently the major ruling party in Taiwan,controlling both the presidency and the central government,while also being the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition.
The Kuomintang (KMT),also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD),the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP),is a major political party in the Republic of China,initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949. The KMT is a centre-right to right-wing party and the largest in the Pan-Blue Coalition. Its primary rival is the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its allies in the Pan-Green Coalition. As of 2024,the KMT is the largest single party in the Legislative Yuan. The current chairman is Eric Chu.
Lee Teng-hui was a Taiwanese statesman and agriculturist who served as the 4th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the 1947 Constitution and chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000. He was the first president to be born in Taiwan,the last to be indirectly elected and the first to be directly elected. During his presidency,Lee oversaw the end of martial law and the full democratization of the ROC,advocated the Taiwanese localization movement,and led an ambitious foreign policy agenda to gain allies around the world. Nicknamed "Mr. Democracy",Lee was credited as the president who completed Taiwan's democratic transition.
Wang Zhaoming,widely known by his pen name Wang Jingwei,was a Chinese politician who was president of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China,a puppet state of Japan. He was initially a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang,leading a government in Wuhan in opposition to the right-wing government in Nanjing,but later became increasingly anti-communist after his efforts to collaborate with the Chinese Communist Party ended in political failure.
The mass media in Taiwan is considered to be one of the freest and most competitive in Asia. Cable TV usage is high and there is also a wide selection of newspapers available covering most political viewpoints.
Radio Taiwan International is the English name and call sign of the Central Broadcasting System (CBS),national broadcaster and international radio service of Taiwan. It is a government-owned station that broadcasts in 14 languages around the world via the internet,shortwave and podcasts. It also has Facebook fan pages in five additional languages. The station’s hosts and programs have won many national and global broadcasting awards.
Tsai Ing-wen is a Taiwanese politician who served as the 7th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2016 to 2024,and was the first woman to hold that position. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP),she intermittently served as chair of the DPP from 2008 to 2012,2014 to 2018,and 2020 to 2022.
Taiwanese people are the citizens and nationals of the Republic of China (ROC) and those who reside in an overseas diaspora from the entire Taiwan Area. The term also refers to natives or inhabitants of the island of Taiwan and its associated islands. The term generally applies to inhabitants on the island of Taiwan who share a common culture,ancestry and speak Mandarin,Hokkien,Hakka,or indigenous Taiwanese languages as a mother tongue. After the ROC government's retreat to Taiwan in 1949,the actual-controlled territories of the government were limited to the main island of Taiwan and Penghu,whose administration were transferred from Japan in 1945,along with a few outlying islands in Fujian Province which include Kinmen and Matsu Islands. Nowadays,Taiwanese people as a demonym may broadly refer to the indigenous peoples of Kinmen and Matsu as they share the same national identity with people of Taiwan. However,the islanders of Kinmen and the Matsu may not consider the "Taiwanese" label to be accurate as they were traditionally a part of Fujian and not Taiwan,maintaining a distinctive identity from that of the Taiwanese.
Caixin Media is a Chinese media group based in Beijing known for business and investigative journalism.
Events from the year 2014 in Taiwan,Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 103 according to the official Republic of China calendar.
Hou Yu-ih is a Taiwanese politician and former police officer. He has been the incumbent mayor of New Taipei since 25 December 2018. Previously,he served as Director-General of the National Police Agency from 2006 to 2008 and as acting mayor of New Taipei City from October 2015 to January 2016. He was the Kuomintang's official candidate for the 2024 Taiwanese presidential elections. He first joined the party during the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek.
Hu Lanqi,also spelled Hu Lanxi,was a Chinese writer and military leader. She joined the National Revolutionary Army in 1927 and the Chinese branch of the Communist Party of Germany in 1930. She was imprisoned by Nazi Germany in 1933 and wrote an influential memoir of her experience,for which she was invited by Maxim Gorky to meet him in Moscow. After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937,she organized a team of women soldiers to resist the Japanese invasion,and became the first woman to be awarded the rank of Major General by the Republic of China. She supported the Communists during the Chinese Civil War,but was persecuted in Mao Zedong's political campaigns following the Communist victory in Mainland China. She survived the Cultural Revolution to see her political rehabilitation,and published a detailed memoir of her life in the 1980s.
Hsu Shu-hua is a Taiwanese politician serving as magistrate of Nantou County.
Fu Pei-mei was a Taiwanese waishengren chef. She wrote over 30 cookbooks on Chinese cuisine,and produced and hosted cooking programs on Taiwan Television and Japan's NHK. In 2012,she was posthumously awarded the special award at the 47th Golden Bell Awards ceremony.
Chang Li-shan (Chinese:張麗善;pinyin:Zhāng Lìshàn;Wade–Giles:Chang1 Li4-shan4;born 1 January 1964) is a Taiwanese politician. She served on the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2008,and again from 2016 to 2018,when she was elected magistrate of Yunlin County.
The Taiwan People's Party (TPP) is a centre-left political party in Taiwan. It was formally established on 6 August 2019 by Ko Wen-je,who serves as its first and current chairman. The party considers itself as an alternative third party to both the Democratic Progressive Party and Kuomintang.
Liu Ping-wei was a Taiwanese politician. He was first elected to the Taiwan Provincial Assembly in 1981 and served continuously until 1998. Liu assumed the speakership of the provincial assembly between 1994 and 1998,and sat for a single term in the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2002.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. As of 19 March 2023 in Taiwan,10,231,343 are confirmed cases,including 18,775 deaths.
The presidency of Tsai Ing-wen officially began on 20 May 2016 when Tsai Ing-wen was inaugurated as the seventh president of the Taiwan. Tsai,a member of the Democratic Progressive Party,took office following her landslide victory in the 2016 Taiwan presidential election over Kuomintang opponent Eric Chu and People First opponent James Soong. Four years later,in the 2020 election,Tsai defeated KMT nominee Han Kuo-yu for a second term. Tsai is the first woman to be elected as president of Taiwan,first unmarried president,and first president to be of both Hakka and aboriginal descent. She is the first President to have never held an elected executive post before serving as president,the first to be popularly elected without having previously served as the Mayor of Taipei,and the second President from the Democratic Progressive Party,following Chen Shui-bian. Term-limited after two terms,the presidency of Tsai was succeeded by the presidency of William Lai on 20 May 2024.
The Chinese government has actively engaged in disinformation to downplay the emergence of COVID-19 in China and manipulate information about its spread around the world. The government also detained whistleblowers and journalists claiming they were spreading rumors when they were publicly raising concerns about people being hospitalized for a "mysterious illness" resembling SARS.