Earlier, US President Donald Trump's administration's approved of the sale of 108 Abrams tanks, 250 Stinger missiles and related equipment. However, the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said that the sale would not alter the basic military balance in the region and that it has notified Congress of the move.
The news of Taiwan allowing same-sex marriage remained the number one popular trend on the Twitter-like microblogging site Weibo in mainland China.
Video footage obtained by local media showed the train striking and toppling a beam and ripping down metal structures from above the tracks as it crashed.
At least 18 people were killed and over 187 injured when a speeding train smashed into a railway station in Taiwan's Luodong on Sunday
The crash on the popular east coast line on Sunday, which left the Puyuma Express lying zig-zagged across the tracks, also injured 187 passengers.
Acording to Taiwan's railway administration, the Puyuma express train was carrying more than 300 passengers toward Taitung, a city on Taiwan's southeast coast, when it went off the tracks on Sunday afternoon.
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Videos and photos showed several midsized buildings in worst-hit Hualien county leaning at sharp angles, their lowest floors crushed into mangled heaps of concrete, glass, iron and other debris.
A hotel employee died in Hualien county when the ground floor caved in at the Marshal Hotel, and another person died in a residential building, the national fire and rescue service reported.
Several buildings in Hualien were tilting or caved in, according to the Central News Agency.
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Taiwan today, the U.S Geological Survey said. The quake struck at a depth of 7.8 km, it said.
When on tour, Indian tourists spend lavishly and are among world’s highest spenders.
TV celebs including Kanchi Singh, Rohan Mehra and others headed to Taiwan for a fitness and fun tour.
Sayani Gupta recently took off to the beautiful oceanic paradise, Bali and soon after took off to some unexplored parts of Taiwan's beaches and hilly areas
China considers Taiwan to be part of its territory and has long opposed any arms sales to the self-governing island by foreign entities.
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