WHAT IS TAIWAN’S HISTORY AND FORMAL NAME TODAY? Previously known as Formosa, the island has been home to indigenous people for thousands of years, before the Dutch and Spanish briefly ruled ...

Feast your eyes on the images below, including selections from the annual Smithsonian.com photo contest, and discover why Taiwan is known as "Ilha Formosa" or "beautiful island." Taiwan is a ...

During World War II, Japanese troops occupied Taiwan – then called Formosa – and fortified ... for an eventual assault on the ...

When Portuguese explorers first travelled past Taiwan on their way to Japan in 1544, they called it Ilha Formosa, or ‘beautiful island’, a moniker that it would be known by in the West.

Don’t miss the chance to snorkel with the island’s green sea turtles. Little Liuqiu, located off of Taiwan's southern coast, is the country’s only coral reef island. Just 2.6 square miles ...

Formosa Smart underscores its ambitions to position Taiwan as a regional battery hub. Chairman Sandy Wang called the facility Taiwan's largest battery cell factory, with plans to scale capacity ...