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Tsai Ing-wen goes into Saturday's election with a comfortable lead in the opinion polls after spending a year standing up to China.

Tsai wins a second term after calling on voters to stand up to threats to the island's freedom and democracy from China.

Tsai Ing-wen's poll ratings are the lowest among potential candidates for 2020, but she says she wants to 'complete her agenda.'

Tsai Ing-wen ushers in her second term in office signaling possible constitutional reforms.

Tsai Ing-wen's PhD from the London School of Economics is well attested, and yet the fake news persists ahead of an election campaign

Gong Yujian faults "poor communications" as Taiwan body says it never received asylum papers from the activist.

Political commentators react with warnings about the erosion of Hong Kong's promised autonomy, rights and freedoms by Beijing.

Passengers were put aboard the first flight in haste with no protective measures, and included a confirmed coronavirus patient.

Families call on their government to bring loved ones home from Wuhan, but Taipei is blaming Beijing for the delay.

Tsai Ing-wen makes history as island's first female president, pledges to uphold status in Taiwan-China ties.

President Tsai Ing-wen says the democratic island -- whose nationals are stranded in Wuhan -- is at the 'front line' of epidemic control.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says Taiwan's government did nothing to stop a campaign of abuse allegedly waged from the island.

Tsai Ing-wen says China's growing projection of its power around the world is a threat to global stability.

State media colleagues say the reporter has had her accreditation revoked, and will likely face further sanctions.

China says it is 'making progress' on human rights as U.S. leaders raise the prickly issue at high-level annual talks.

China's president warns against further confrontation between the two countries.

Student leaders vow to continue protests, but numbers remain far below last week's peak.

C.Y. Leung says there may yet be room for compromise on the nominations process.

Occupy Central supporters say the government's offers aren't concrete and that protests will continue.

Analysts see a new seriousness in shared U.S. and Chinese concerns over Korea, but predict less progress on trade.

Tan Zuoren says he will focus on allegations of shoddy school construction linked to graft.

A Chinese lawyer is detained on a visit to Shaoyang, the city where an activist died under suspicious circumstances.

A victim of China's 1989 crackdown says he's looking forward to his new life.

Chinese tourists take photos of the exhibit marking the 30th anniversary of the massacre, but are reluctant to have a conversation on the topic in public.

The collision could lead to environmental devastation off the coast of the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, an environmentalist warns.

A scholar of Chinese Taoist philosophy is in poor health in prison, where he is serving time for 'superstition.'

Newly leaked material may explain the Chinese princeling's recent fall from power.

Chinese property developer filmed the encounters to blackmail municipal officials.

Veteran rights activist Xiao Yuhui is detained in Guangdong, while outspoken poet Wang Zang faces charges in Yunnan.

Special forces attack a crowd in Yuen Long MTR station with batons, rubber bullets, and pepper spray after protesters turn a fire hose on regular police.