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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 431

Taiwan

A photo taken on September 18, 2024, in Beirut's southern suburbs shows the remains of exploded pagers on display at an undisclosed location. The pagers were used by Hezbollah and the attack has been blamed on Israel. (AFP)
November 11, 2024, 12:56 pm
Closing case, Taiwan prosecutors say Hezbollah exploding pagers not made by local firms
Law enforcement officials say AR-924 model made outside of Taiwan and traded and shipped by Frontier Group Entity; admit they don’t know exact identities of that firm’s employees
By Reuters and ToI Staff
People gather outside Beirut's American University hospital after the arrival of several men who were wounded by exploded handheld pagers, in an attack on Hezbollah fighters blamed on Israel, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Bassam Masri)
September 23, 2024, 6:12 pm
Taiwan investigators question more employees in probe into Hezbollah device blasts
No suspects named, questions abound as to origins of devices that exploded in Lebanon last week; Taipei ‘certain’ pagers didn’t originate there; NYT has reported Israel made them
By Agencies and ToI Staff
An undated file catalog image of an Apollo pager, similar to the ones that exploded on September 17, 2024, in various cities of Lebanon and Syria, in an unprecedented attack on Hezbollah personnel. (Balkis Press / ABACAPRESS.COM / Reuters)
September 18, 2024, 8:41 pm
Taiwan, Hungary deny making Hezbollah pagers, deepening mystery of their origin
Gold Apollo, Taiwanese firm identified as making model, is emphatic it did not make exploding devices; Budapest says company’s local partner has no production site in the country
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Speaker of the US House Mike Johnson talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
April 20, 2024, 1:11 pm
US House gears up to pass Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan aid in unlikely bipartisan vote
Kyiv-skeptic GOP ‘America Firsters’ threaten Johnson with ouster after Speaker secures Biden’s blessing for Democrats to support procedural motion enabling $95 billion package
By Agencies
Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, center, celebrates his victory with running mate Bi-khim Hsiao, right, in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
January 13, 2024, 5:37 pm
Candidate strongly opposed by China wins Taiwan’s presidential election
Beijing, which insists the small island nation belongs to it, had called the poll a choice between war and peace
By Agencies
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, right, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, June 18, 2023. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP)
June 18, 2023, 1:40 pm
Blinken in Beijing on high-stakes mission to cool soaring US-China tension
US secretary of state has plenty to discuss in Chinese capital, from human rights issues to trade with Taiwan, Hong Kong, and detained American citizens
By Matthew Lee
Israeli Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, third from bottom right, meets with Jeffrey Schwartz, third from left, at the Jeffrey D. Schwartz Jewish Community Center in Taipei, in February 2023. (Courtesy of the Jeffrey D. Schwartz and Na Tang Jewish Taiwan Cultural Association)
March 2, 2023, 8:50 am
Israeli chief rabbi visits Taiwan in milestone for country’s Jewish community
David Lau participates in ceremony dedicating cultural center, attends regional summit of rabbis, meets with Taiwanese officials; says impressed by locals’ dedication to tradition
By Jordyn Haime
Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz lights the first Hanukkah candle in Kharkiv, Ukraine, December 18, 2022. (Vyacheslav Madiyevskyi / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images via JTA)
December 22, 2022, 8:25 am
2 Lego menorahs, candle lighting under war: Hanukkah celebrated around the world
From Ukraine to Taiwan, from Sao Paulo to Denver, menorahs light up Jewish communities as they celebrate the Festival of Lights
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) and Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to their talks in Beijing, China, on February 4, 2022. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
August 29, 2022, 1:38 pm
Russia and China to conduct sweeping joint military drills
War games begin amid increased tension between the West and both Moscow and Beijing after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Nancy Pelosi’s August visit to Taiwan
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
The guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) transits the Philippine Sea, June 18, 2016. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ryan J. Batchelder/US Navy via AP)
August 28, 2022, 9:17 pm
Two US warships sail through Taiwan Strait amid tensions with China
US Navy notes maneuver is ‘routine,’ as Chinese military says it is cautioning vessels throughout their journey, remains ready to ‘foil any provocations’
By AFP
Illustrative: A man near a poster promoting vaccination in Beijing, China, July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
August 11, 2022, 4:14 am
Researchers tracking new Langya virus after it infects 35 in China
Disease jumps from shrews to people, but no human-to-human transmission recorded and cases described as mild
By ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden answers a shouted question from a reporter while walking to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 7, 2022. (Stefani Reynolds / AFP)
August 8, 2022, 7:16 pm
Biden ‘concerned’ at scale of China’s extended Taiwan military drills
But US president says he doesn’t expect any further escalation as Beijing continues exercises around self-ruled island, defying calls to stop
By AFP
A Chinese J-11 military fighter jet flies above the Taiwan Strait near Pingtan, the closest land of mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in Pingtan in southeastern China's Fujian Province, August 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
August 6, 2022, 10:41 am
Taipei says China’s military drills appear to simulate attack on Taiwan
Warning comes as multiple Chinese warships and aircraft cross median line of the Taiwan Strait; Taiwanese army detects 4 drones in vicinity of offshore county
By AP
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, air force and naval aviation corps of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) fly planes as part of military drills at an unspecified location in China, August 4, 2022. (Fu Gan/Xinhua via AP)
August 5, 2022, 3:18 pm
China severs climate, military and anti-drug ties with US over Pelosi’s Taiwan trip
Move comes amid a string of retaliatory measures, including a large live-fire military exercise off coast of Taiwan; Beijing also sanctions US House Speaker
By AP
A Chinese fighter jet flies in the direction of Taiwan seen from the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, the closest point in mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in Pingtan in southeastern China's Fujian Province, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. (AP/Ng Han Guan)
August 5, 2022, 11:31 am
Blinken: Chinese military drills around Taiwan, Japan are ‘significant escalation’
Secretary urges Beijing to back down and reiterates that Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Tapei was peaceful and did not represent a change in US policy toward Taiwan
By Agencies
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