Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs has blamed "natural deterioration" as the reason for the latest subsea cable outages to ...

During World War II, Japanese troops occupied Taiwan – then called Formosa – and fortified ... for an eventual assault on the ...

War Plan Orange envisaged an advance across the Pacific that would culminate with an assault on Taiwan — then called Formosa ...

When Portuguese explorers first travelled past Taiwan on their way to Japan in 1544, they called it Ilha Formosa, or ‘beautiful island’, a moniker that it would be known by in the West.

referring to what the island’s pilots have had ... seen as a symbol of Taiwanese identity. Taiwan was previously better known internationally as Formosa. “Where can we get a patch like that!