Taiwan's former leader Chen Shui-bian and and his wife Wu Shu-jen have been sentenced to 20 years in jail, the island's High Court reported. Both had initially been sentenced to life imprisonment after their convictions in 2009 on charges of corruption.
Former Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian was convicted Friday on corruption and money laundering charges, and was sentenced to life in prison, according to officials at Taipei City Court.
A court in Taiwan has sentenced the island's former first lady to a year in prison for lying to prosecutors in her husband's corruption case.
The corruption trial of former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian began Thursday, a case that has gripped the island nation for months and one in which a conviction can bring life imprisonment.
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian pleaded not guilty to corruption charges Monday during a pre-trial hearing in Taipei.
A Taiwan court early Tuesday ordered ex-President Chen Shui-bian, who is facing corruption charges, back to jail after deeming him a flight risk.
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian is indicted on several corruption charges. CNN's Anna Coren reports.
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, accused of embezzling about $18 million, has remained free on bail after a nearly eight-hour court hearing in which prosecutors argued that he should be jailed.
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian was freed on bail early Saturday after spending a month in jail while prosecutors prepared an indictment on several corruption charges, including embezzlement and accepting bribes.
A judge ordered the former president of Taiwan detained Wednesday on corruption charges, just hours after he was taken to a hospital after he accused police of pushing and rough-handling him before he appeared in court in Taipei, according to state-run media.
In a major blow to his DPP party, the family of Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian is accused of misusing millions of campaign dollars
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian's son and daughter-in-law returned home Monday from the United States, insisting they are innocent of any criminal role in an alleged money laundering scandal involving their family
Ma Ying-jeou is sworn in as the new president of Taiwan.
CNN's Eunice Yoon reports on the election of Taiwan's new president and the effect it will have on the rest of the world.
The humiliation of the mainland's nemesis at the polls could help ease
tensions between China and its "rebel" province
Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party won a landslide victory in legislative elections Saturday, giving a big boost to its policy of closer engagement with China two months before a presidential poll it now seems poised to win.
Taiwan's opposition Nationalists win a landslide victory in elections Saturday. CNN's Ralitsa Vassileva reports.
Taiwan closed the mausoleum of Chiang Kai-shek as part of the ruling party's campaign to diminish his legacy.
Taipei's bid for U.N. membership was always sure to anger Beijing. But President Chen Shui-bian has riled allies in Washington as well
Hello I'm Anjali Rao in Taipei. My guest this week is Taiwan's President Chen Shu-bian. This is Talk Asia!
China's premier is pledging to narrow the gap between rich and poor as the National People's Congress opened its 10-day session in Beijing.
China is warning of a new crisis in its relations with Taiwan following the latter's decision to scrap a "reunification" council -- a move Beijing regards as deliberatively provocative.
Lunar New Year celebrations begin January 29 all over the world, heralding the end of the rooster's reign and welcoming the Year of the Dog under the Chinese zodiac.
Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has urged Beijing to negotiate with his government days after a landmark meeting between the island's opposition leader and China's president.
An intriguing calm has settled on the Taiwan Strait as the Chinese Communist Party administration focuses on united-front tactics to woo non-separatist elements in the "breakaway province" of Taiwan.
Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese have marched on their capital to protest Beijing's new law sanctioning the use of force if Taipei moves toward formal independence.
Investigators say they have identified the "most likely suspect" who shot and wounded Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian while he was campaigning last year.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao opened the annual session of the National People's Congress in Beijing by saying a planned anti-secession law would never permit independence for Taiwan.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is delivering his opening address at the annual session of the National People's Congress in Beijing.
Non-stop charter flights will link China and Taiwan during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations, marking the first time in more than 50 years commercial planes have made the trip, according to Chinese media reports.
China has officially reacted to Taiwan's surprise weekend election outcome, saying it showed the majority of the island's people wanted peace and to further develop relations with the mainland.
Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian has resigned as leader of his party, taking the blame for a weekend legislative election defeat.
The people of Taiwan have said no to a new mandate to accelerate President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence policies.
Taiwan's opposition has won a legislative majority in a stunning upset over President Chen Shui-Bian's pro-independence coalition.
Taiwan's voters are going to the polls to pick a new legislature in an election some view as a referendum on the president's attempts to assert independence from mainland China.
Deteriorating Sino-U.S. relations over Taiwan have cast a shadow over the six-nation talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis in Beijing this week.
China has not been placated by the seemingly moderate tone adopted by Taiwan's re-elected president Chen Shui-bian in his inauguration speech last week and has accused him of being "insincere."
Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian remains the "biggest threat" to regional peace and stability in the eyes of China, despite his placatory inauguration speech in Taipei Thursday.
Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian has pulled back from the brink of confronting China, explicitly ruling out any immediate steps towards independence in his constitutional reform measures.
The swearing in of Taiwan's president has given the Chinese government an opportunity to remind Taipei of the consequences of moves towards independence.
Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian's campaign platform to make Taipei more independent from mainland China has put him at odds with both Beijing and Washington.
The sword is out of its scabbard. Premier Wen Jiabao's revelation last week that Beijing is considering a National Reunification Law shows the Chinese leadership has entered a new and possibly violent phase in its decades-long struggle against Taiwanese independence.
Taiwan Interior Minister Yu Cheng-hsien has resigned in the wake of an assassination attempt on the island's president, Chen Shui-bian, just over two weeks ago.
Tens of thousands of Taiwan opposition supporters gathered on Saturday to demand an independent inquiry into an election-eve assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian that they say swung the poll.
Taiwan's high court has given lawyers for President Chen Shui-bian, and opposition candidate Lien Chan five days to reach agreement on how to recount the disputed presidential vote.
President Chen Shui-bian says he has been given a mandate to press for Taiwan's independence from China despite a razor-thin margin in his hotly-disputed re-election.
Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian is expected to meet with key rival Lien Chan in a bid to resolve the political crisis engulfing the island following contentious presidential elections on March 20.
Protesters continued their weeklong demonstrations as Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian defended himself against charges that he rigged last weekend's vote.
Thousands of protesters have gathered in front of the presidential palace in Taipei to dispute election results that gave a narrow victory to President Chen Shui-bian.
Angry protesters have stormed the headquarters of Taiwan's Central Election Commission as it formally declared President Chen Shui-bian the winner of Saturday's disputed poll.
Beijing has signaled its discontent with the outcome of Taiwan's presidential election just days before the island's election commission is due to formally declare a victor.
Protests rattled Taiwan for a fourth day as the nation's main political parties grappled with competing plans to hold a recount of the weekend's contentious presidential election.
President Chen Shui-bian has lashed out at vote-rigging allegations leveled against him and urged Taiwan's 23 million people not to allow the disputed result of weekend elections to divide the island.
Beijing is mapping out strategies to undermine the authority of the controversially re-elected President Chen Shui-bian -- and to position itself as the real champion of Taiwan's 23 million people.
Thousands of opposition supporters have refused to disband protests in Taipei until votes are recounted as conspiracy theories and allegations of fraud swirl around the weekend poll.
Taiwan's high court has ordered all ballot boxes sealed as demonstrators protest the results of presidential elections, according to The Associated Press.
Profiles of the two candidates in Taiwan's presidential election:
Taiwan's voters are casting their ballots in what is expected to be a close presidential election the day after a failed assassination attempt on their leader and his running mate.
U.S. Treasurys were mixed in thin trade Friday as a dearth of hard news left the market vulnerable to rumors and profit-taking on recent hefty gains.
Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has arrived back in Taipei after surviving an apparent assassination attempt in the southern city of Tainan.
As campaigning for elections hits full swing across Taiwan the unfolding political drama is reverberating in capitals as far away as Beijing and Washington.
Chinese naval vessels and a visiting French fleet are taking part in joint military exercises described as its biggest ever with a foreign power, China's state-run media has reported.
Chinese generals have joined the campaign to vilify Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, a signal that Beijing is mobilizing more resources, including military means, to thwart Chen's alleged "creeping independence" crusade.
China has denounced plans by Taiwan's president to push ahead with a poll next month but says it won't interfere.
Beijing is mounting a multi-pronged offensive to minimize the re-election chances of pro-independent Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian.
Chinese authorities have ignored the apparent olive branch from Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, who proposed Tuesday setting up a "peace and stability framework" to defuse tension with the mainland.
France's president has warned Taiwan it will be committing a "grave error" if it holds a referendum in March.
Chinese President Hu Jintao is set to arrive in Paris to lobby for sales of weapons to China and French opposition to "referendum politics" in Taiwan.
Cross-Straits propaganda warfare over a number of mainland-based "Taiwan spies" has shifted into a higher gear with Beijing allowing family members to visit two of the alleged spooks.
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