ORCHID ISLAND, Taiwan--While 2020 will be remembered by many as a year of travel bans and cancelled vacations, the indigenous Tao people of Orchid Island will remember it as the year unprecedented ...

Life on the 46km2 island is far removed from Taiwan proper and unlike its nearest neighbor, Green Island (綠島), the natural environment remains unspoiled. Orchid Island is home to around 3,200 people, ...

A tropical depression near the northwestern Philippines is expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Danas by early tomorrow ...

In the 1970s, the authoritarian government planned to dump nuclear waste into a 6,000-meter-deep oceanic trench southeast of Taiwan, near the Philippines. If Taiwan had acted upon this horrific idea, ...

In 1974, the Taiwan Atomic Energy Council decided to store nuclear waste on Taiwan's Orchid Island, where the indigenous Tao people have lived for generations. More than twenty years have passed, the ...

A weather monitoring station on outlying Orchid Island, southeast of the main island, measured a gust of nearly 213 mph at 9:53 p.m., as well as sustained winds that reached about 123 mph at 9:40 p.m.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The suspected appearance of two Chinese Xi’an H-6 bombers near Orchid Island in Taitung County has not been confirmed by the Ministry of National Defense, reports said Tuesday ...

ORCHID ISLAND, Taiwan, Nov 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - While 2020 will be remembered by many as a year of travel bans and cancelled vacations, ...

ORCHID ISLAND, Taiwan, Nov 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - While 2020 will be remembered by many as a year of travel bans and cancelled vacations, ...