Taiwan’s coast guard detained a cargo ship and its Chinese crew on Tuesday and said it was investigating whether the vessel had deliberately cut an undersea internet cable, in the latest possible damage to the island’s communication lines.

China’s military has set up a zone for “live-fire training” about 46 miles (74 kilometers) off the southwestern coast of Taiwan without advance notice, the island’s defense ministry said on Wednesday,

Taiwan's coast guard has detained a Togo-flagged ship crewed by eight Chinese sailors after spotting it lingering near where a submarine communication cable was severed Tuesday morning.

The coast guard said it dispatched three vessels to detain the Chinese-crewed Hong Tai 58, registered in Togo, which dropped anchor near the sea cable off the southwestern coast of Taiwan around the time it was disconnected. The vessel is a Chinese ...

Taiwan's coast guard on Tuesday detained a Chinese-linked cargo ship, flagged in Togo, suspected of involvement, though Beijing said Taiwan was "manipulating" possible Chinese involvement, saying the island was casting aspersions before the facts were clear.

Taiwan’s coast guard said it spotted the Togo-flagged cargo vessel in the area on Saturday evening. When it dropped anchor around 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday, the coast guard directed the ship to move away. Within less than an hour, telecommunications provider ...

Taiwan's coast guard said it was investigating whether the incident was sabotage but said "it cannot be ruled out that it was a gray zone intrusion."

Taiwan has and would continue to improve its combat capabilities and procure military equipment based on its own national defense requirements, high-ranking government officials said today.

The UN General Assembly in 1971 passed Resolution 2758 with an overwhelming majority, “resuming” all legal rights of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at the UN and immediately expelling representatives of Taiwan from the UN system, Wang said.

Taiwan’s Coast Guard detained a Togo-flagged cargo ship with an all-Chinese crew on Tuesday after Taiwanese telecom firm Chunghwa reported damage to its undersea communications cable. “After receiving information from Chunghwa Telecom,

Cargo vessel and 8-member crew escorted to Taiwan after communication link to Penghu Islands damaged in suspected ‘harassment’, coastguard says.

The captain of a freighter crewed by Chinese nationals denied Thursday his vessel had damaged a submarine communications cable between Taiwan proper and Penghu. The Togo-flagged Hong Tai is suspected of severing the Taiwan-Penghu No.