At least 50 people are dead and hundreds injured after a train derailed and slid down a hillside in Taiwan on Friday. The passenger train was going from Taipei to the city of Taitung, a trip that ...

A Joetsu Shinkansen train derailed in the Niigata Prefecture Chuetsu Earthquake in 2004, and it took two months to resume full operations of the service, according to JR East. Traffic remained ...

though all rail services, including high-speed trains, continued without disruption. Taiwan, located on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, frequently experiences earthquakes. The island ...

A 5-magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Taiwan on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, causing buildings to shake in the capital Taipei. The quake struck at a depth of nearly 70 kilometres ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — An earthquake shook Taiwan on Wednesday morning, setting off alarms in the capital, but no damage was immediately reported. The Central Weather Administration measured the ...

ALISHAN, Taiwan (Reuters ... re-opened last year following damage from typhoons and earthquakes. This is the eighth time the special train has been organised. (Reporting by Angie Teo and ...

Nearly a hundred passengers hopped aboard an old steam train ... of Taiwan’s most popular tourist attractions, and only fully re-opened last year following damage from typhoons and earthquakes.