Taiwan

TAIWAN - Taiwan Friday risked irking China by hailing jailed Chinese dissident and writer Liu Xiaobo for his efforts to fight for human rights that earned him a Nobel Peace Prize.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan has carried out a death sentence for the first time since 2005, executing four inmates as a heated debate rages on the island over whether capital punishment should be abolished.

SANTA ANA, Calif. - International financier Danny Pang seemed to represent the ultimate success story: a self-made Taiwanese immigrant with a gold-plated resume and an investment company that raked in hundreds of millions from the wealthy in his homeland.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A court has sentenced Taiwan's former first lady to a year in jail for giving false testimony in a wide-ranging corruption case involving her and her husband, a preliminary verdict in a major trial expected to wrap up later this month.