Crashed TransAsia Airways Flight 235 was headed to Kinmen, a tiny archipelago once on the front line of efforts by Taiwan’s government to keep China’s forces at bay. Now the islands welcome ...

Kinmen County calls off 7 km open water swim due to lack of permits for Chinese swimmers | Jul. 16, 2025 13:14 ...

Kinmen is not a tourist island. There are no fancy developments or five-star restaurants. It is a sleepy beach town where people past the time shucking oysters, ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - No longer a Communist-repelling outpost, Taiwan's Kinmen, an islet that lies close to southern China's coast, has shed another barrier against its former mainland foes.

Taiwan on Tuesday protested China’s boarding of a tourist boat near the Kinmen archipelago. The Chinese coast guard boarded the King Xia for about 32 minutes on Monday.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan on Tuesday protested China’s boarding of a tourist boat, as tensions rise around the Kinmen archipelago, which lies a short distance off China’s coast but is ...

Taiwan Land Development Corp (台灣土地開發公司) yesterday signed a 50-year build-operate-transfer (BOT) agreement with the Kinmen County Government, promising to turn the former war-torn island into an ...

Taiwan - Military officials in Kinmen County agreed yesterday to hand over two vacant military sites to civilian authorities that the county’s leader hopes to convert into popular tourist attraction ...

Li Wo-shih, Kinmen’s magistrate, makes the short hop to China a dozen times a year to talk trade and tourism. A deal is in the works for Kinmen to purchase some of its drinking water from the ...

Six Chinese coast guard officers boarded a Taiwanese tourist boat with 23 passengers and 11 crew members on Monday in Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands, a frontline just 3km away from Chinese shores.

Like other residents of this tiny Taiwanese archipelago, a 30-minute ferry ride from neighboring China, shopkeeper Chang Hung is trying to make the switch from fighting the mainland to wooing it.

Taiwan on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024 protested China's boarding of a tourist boat, as tensions rise around the Kinmen archipelago, which lies a short distance off China's coast but is controlled by ...