Democratic Progressive Party News

The Taiwan Affairs Office in China has labelled Lai as an "obstinate Taiwan independence worker," predicting "cross-strait confrontation and conflict."

More than 360 same-sex couples married on Friday, according to government data, after years of heated debate over marriage equality that has divided the self-ruled and democratic island.

The Chinese government said on Friday that the health of people in Taiwan is not being put at risk by Taiwan`s inability to attend a UN health meeting this year as there is no barrier to technical or medical exchanges and aid.

Relations between Beijing and Taiwan have worsened in the past year, largely because Beijing distrusts the Democratic Progressive Party, which took power last year.

China`s failure to respond on the matter of a Taiwan man missing on the mainland is causing his family "anxiety and panic", Taiwan`s ruling party said on Saturday, as it called on authorities to protect the rights of Taiwan people.

A Taiwanese NGO worker who promoted democracy in China has gone missing after entering the mainland earlier this month, authorities said.

China is aiming advanced medium-range ballistic missiles at Taiwan as part of a growing military threat towards the island, Taipei's defence minister said on Monday.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Saturday that Taiwan will be "calm" when facing issues to do with China, but uncertainties next year will test the self-ruled island and its national security team, even as she recommitted to maintaining peace.

China has never renounced the use of force to bring democratic Taiwan, which it considers an inalienable part of China, under its control.

Taiwanese lawmakers and fishermen headed to an island in the disputed South China Sea Wednesday to protest at an international tribunal ruling which undermined Taipei`s claims there.

Taiwan`s new government has repealed controversial changes to the high school curriculum that led to widespread protests last year over what critics said was "China-centric" education.

Taiwan`s new President Tsai Ing-wen called for "positive dialogue" with China in her much-anticipated inauguration speech on Friday, striking a conciliatory tone in the face of an increasingly hostile Beijing.

Taiwan`s new president, Tsai Ing-wen, has a reputation as a patient, canny negotiator and she`ll need those skills as she takes responsibility for what is potentially one of Asia`s most dangerous flashpoints.

The Chinese government warned Taiwan on Wednesday that the passage of a proposed new law governing relations between the two could seriously damage the basis for talks, and that Beijing opposed any obstacles to developing ties.

Taiwan`s President-elect Tsai Ing-wen, of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), on Tuesday appointed Lin Chuan, a former finance minister, as the nation`s future prime minister.

Taiwan`s premier pledged Friday to change safety laws after more than 100 people were killed when an earthquake toppled an apartment complex thought to have been weakened by shoddy construction.

Taiwan on Monday inaugurated its new parliament, in which the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) holds an absolute majority, putting an end to over 60 years of legislative control by the nationalist Kuomintang party (KMT).

As of Thursday morning, more than 40,000 people had made comments on her Facebook page, in a repetition of a similar incident in November.

Expressing concern over a planned visit by a former American official to Taiwan for talks with the new government on the island, China on Monday asked the US to be cautious on the Taiwan issue and not medddle in China's internal affairs.

Tsai and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won a landslide victory on Saturday as voters turned their backs on closer China ties.