TAIPEI - People in northern Taiwan sweltered through high temperatures on May 27, with the capital Taipei enduring its hottest day on record for the month in May, the weather agency said. Temperatures ...

Lowrider passengers drive by an audience of thousands during the annual Carnaval Parade in the Mission on May 24, 2026. Photo by Abigail Vân Neely. Before professional athletes play for the 2026 World ...

San Francisco's annual Carnaval celebration is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, with thousands of people expected to convene in the city's Mission District. The free two-day festival and parade will ...

Calling all museum hoppers, gallery crawlers and bookstore romantics: Taipei has just been named the best city in Asia for arts and culture in 2026. The Taiwanese capital landed at No. 11 globally in ...

The World Baseball Classic is one of the few tournaments that really make baseball a global sport. Baseball fans from Japan, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, the United States, and many other ...

When perusing international sports box scores, you may come across both China and Chinese Taipei. Upon first glance, you may believe that China has somehow gotten two teams into whatever tournament ...

As far as East Asia is concerned, Tokyo has long been considered the de facto aspirational travel destination. But what if I told you that there’s another city that truly has it all, too? Think: a ...

Alex Honnold successfully scaled one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers on Saturday without a rope — so what kind of audience did the risky live event attract? The free-solo climber’s conquering of ...

Climber Alex Honnold has completed a free solo ascent of Taipei 101 in Taiwan, not using any ropes to scale the massive 1,667-foot skyscraper — and he did it live, as the world watched on with bated ...

'Free solo' ascent organised and shown live by Netflix Honnold completed climb in an hour and a half Taipei 101 was once tallest building in the world TAIPEI, Jan 25 (Reuters) - U.S. climber Alex ...