As a missionary in Taiwan, Maurie Sween worked at a hospital, taught at seminary schools and helped lead a school for children with cerebral palsy. Now he's hoping to avail the people of Taiwan by ...

Music could be used to track human migration patterns over history, new research suggests. That conclusion, described Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, came from examining a ...

YILAN, Taiwan (JTA) — It was a cool spring day in Yilan, a town on Taiwan’s northeast coast known for its picturesque rice fields and delicious spring onions. On a concrete clearing beneath a bridge ...

Dressed in traditional, colorful costumes hundreds of ethnic indigenous people in Taiwan sang songs, danced and prayed together as they joined a church-sponsored celebration to mark the jubilee of ...

As a proud member of Taiwan's Indigenous Paiwan community, Sauljaljui (戴曉君) weaves ancestral folk songs with experimental beats and global sounds, creating music that is both deeply ingrained in her ...

An extensive phylogenetic analysis of mtDNA from nine Taiwanese tribes reveals an unambiguous genetic link between aboriginal Taiwanese and Polynesian populations, to the exclusion of mainland Asians.

An aboriginal singer who helped kick off the influential Taiwanese folk movement of the 1970s is one of the headliners at the Strawberry Music Festival. Hu Defu, nicknamed Kimbo, organized what is ...

The plan of the Taiwan Tourism Bureau to develop the annual Taiwan Cycling Festival as a national effort to draw both domestic and international visitors to the island nation’s scenic countryside as ...

The Han Chinese were originally a continental farming people, but a few centuries ago pioneers among them ventured across the “Black Ditch” of the Taiwan Strait to live on a mountainous island ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The World Music Festival at Taiwan will return for its eighth year in October to showcase Taiwan artists creating modern sounds with folk instruments, traditional performers, ...

Six-time Grammy Award-winner and Honolulu native Daniel Ho is best known for his performances on ukulele, slack key guitar, piano, and vocals. Now based in Los Angeles, his multifaceted career ...

On a busy Taipei street corner, students in tribal tunics, bare feet and temporary facial tattoos are taking part in an impromptu ceremony. The students, aboriginals at National Taiwan University, ...