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Energy achieved the #2 music ranking of 2024 on Taiwan's KKBOX Mandarin Yearly Cumulative Singles Chart. Energy's Friday Night is second on KKBOX's 2024 Mandarin yearly cumulative singles chart, behind Kui's number one.

A Mw 7.4 earthquake struck 15 km south of Hualien City at 07:58 local time on 3 April 2024, killing at least 19 people and injuring over 1,100 in Taiwan's strongest quake since 1999.

Lai Ching-te took office on 20 May 2024 in front of the Presidential Office Building, starting the first third consecutive presidential term for one party since direct elections began, and delivering a speech on peace and sovereignty.

The PLA's Eastern Theater Command began the two-day Joint Sword-2024A exercise at 07:45 Beijing time on 23 May 2024, encircling Taiwan and the Kinmen, Matsu, Wuqiu and Dongyin island groups.

五月天 (Mayday) achieved the #2 music ranking of 2025 on Taiwan's KKBOX Mandarin Yearly Cumulative Singles Chart. Mayday's theme song for the drama Hard to Coax (難哄) is second on KKBOX's 2025 Mandarin yearly cumulative singles chart, behind LBI's number one.

LBI利比 achieved the #1 music ranking of 2025 on Taiwan's KKBOX Mandarin Yearly Cumulative Singles Chart. KKBOX's Mandarin yearly cumulative singles chart ranked "Jumping Machine (跳樓機)" by LBI利比 No. 1 for the period 2024-12-31 to 2025-12-30.

汪蘇瀧 (Silence Wang) achieved the #3 music ranking of 2025 on Taiwan's KKBOX Mandarin Yearly Cumulative Singles Chart. Silence Wang's heart theme for the drama Hard to Coax is third on KKBOX's 2025 Mandarin yearly cumulative singles chart.

The PLA held Strait Thunder-2025A on 1-2 April 2025 around the Matsu Islands and Taiwan, with the Shandong carrier group east of the island, China's seventh major drill aimed at Taiwan since August 2022.

Taipower disconnects Unit 2 at licence expiry, ending the island’s nuclear generation at that point. The May 18 database marker is a separate formal shutdown convention.

Voters on 26 July 2025 rejected the recall of all 24 Kuomintang legislators targeted in the first wave of the 'Great Recall', on turnout averaging over 55%, the highest of any recall votes held in Taiwan.

On 23 September 2025 heavy rain from Super Typhoon Ragasa made the landslide-dammed Matai'an Creek barrier lake overflow, sweeping a wall of mud and water into Guangfu township in Hualien and killing at least 18 people.

TSMC Fab 25 is a planned four-fab A14 (1.4nm) site on the second-phase expansion land of the Central Taiwan Science Park in Taichung. TSMC filed its notice to start construction on 17 October 2025, and pile works began on 5 November 2025 without a public ceremony. The first fab is targeted for risk production by the end of 2027 and volume production in the second half of 2028. TSMC has not published a cost.

Weeks after the first shipments resumed, China told Japan it would suspend imports of Japanese seafood, its foreign ministry saying Japanese seafood would find 'no market' in China after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Taiwan.

洪佩瑜 (Hung Pei-yu) achieved the #2 music ranking of 2026 on Taiwan's KKBOX Mandarin Yearly Cumulative Singles Chart. Hung Pei-yu's theme song for the film Sunshine Women's Choir is second on KKBOX's 2026 Mandarin yearly cumulative singles chart through 15 October 2026 (KKBOX counts listens from 31 Dec 2025); the final 2026 ranking is not yet published.

Taoyuan International Airport opened the north concourse of its new Terminal 3 on 25 December 2025, the first part of the project, with the main building due for completion by the end of 2027.

A-Lin achieved the #1 music ranking of 2026 on Taiwan's KKBOX Mandarin Yearly Cumulative Singles Chart. KKBOX's Mandarin yearly cumulative singles chart ranked "幸福在歌唱 (Happiness Is Singing)" by A-Lin No. 1 for the period 2025-12-31 to 2026-10-15. The 2026 chart is still accumulating (period runs to 2026-10-15), so this is the leader to date, not a final year-end result.

China's Eastern Theater Command sent ground, naval, air and rocket forces to encircle Taiwan in two days of blockade and live-fire drills, its eighth major exercise around the island since 2022, after a US arms sale worth over $11 billion.

A memorandum signed in Washington commits Taiwanese chipmakers such as TSMC to at least $250 billion of new US investment plus $250 billion in Taiwan credit guarantees, in return for a 15% tariff cap and Section 232 chip-tariff exemptions for companies building US fabs.

李佳薇 (Jess Lee) achieved the #3 music ranking of 2026 on Taiwan's KKBOX Mandarin Yearly Cumulative Singles Chart. Jess Lee's July 2026 single is third on KKBOX's 2026 Mandarin yearly cumulative singles chart through 15 October 2026 (KKBOX counts listens from 31 Dec 2025); the final 2026 ranking is not yet published.

Taiwan's 42nd Han Kuang exercise ran from 5 to 14 August 2026, with urban resilience drills held alongside the live-fire phase for the first time.

Cold Stone Taiwan's Rich Hershey's pairs Hershey's chocolate ice cream with brownie, chocolate cookie and a daifuku skin, on sale from 18 September to 12 November 2026.

Taiwan's former president Tsai Ing-wen opens the Fourth Annual Stanford Conference on Tech and National Security on Wednesday 7 October 2026, on her first US trip since leaving office. The Hoover Institution has invited her to speak the next day.

The Republic of China's National Day ceremony takes place on 10 October 2026 in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei, with honour guard performances, civic parades, an air force flyby and fireworks in Taitung.

The 24th Taiwan LGBT+ Pride Parade, themed 'Our Voices, Our Journey', starts and ends at Taipei City Hall Plaza on 31 October 2026, seven years after same-sex marriage became legal.

Taipei's biggest coffee trade show runs 13-16 November 2026 at Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 1, with barista, latte art and brewers cup champion events alongside a tea expo and wine festival.

The 63rd Golden Horse Awards ceremony is on 22 November 2026 at the Taipei Music Center, with drama 'Arrested Memory' leading the field on 11 nominations.

Taiwan holds its nine-in-one local elections on 28 November 2026, with about 19.65 million eligible voters choosing 11,051 officials across 22 cities and counties.

On October 22, Polymarket’s public Taipei winner page showed Chiang Wan-an at 63% and Puma Shen at 37.6%, with US$1,761,117 total event volume. The November 28 vote is scheduled; the winner remains a prediction.

The 2026 Taipei Marathon is scheduled for Sunday 20 December, starting at Taipei City Hall Plaza at 6:30 a.m., with about 28,000 runners across the marathon and half marathon.

Polymarket's contract on China commencing a military offensive against any inhabited territory Taiwan administers, on or before December 31, 2026, showed a 4% chance on 20 September 2026 — its own note put the implied probability of no invasion at 95.8%. A separate market on any direct China-Taiwan military clash over the same window showed 6%.

Miaoli County hosts the 2027 Taiwan Lantern Festival, provisionally from 20 February to 7 March 2027 around its High Speed Rail station zone, its first time as host since 2011.

COMPUTEX Taipei 2027 runs 1-4 June at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center and TWTC, with physical AI as its anchor theme after a record 2026 edition.

Taipei Metro's light-green Wanda-Zhonghe-Shulin line, nine underground stations from Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall to Zhonghe Senior High School, is scheduled to be complete in 2027 and carry 270,000 riders a day.

Estimated operation/completion target: 2027. 1,022 MW generating capacity; About CAD 9 billion published project cost. Partly operational / under construction.