''Taiwan News'' (formerly ''China News''
) is an
English-language
online newspaper in
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...
. It is owned by foods company
I-Mei Foods
I-Mei Foods () is a Taiwanese food company founded in 1934. It is a well-known consumer brand in Taiwan and a major milk processor.
History
I-Mei was founded as a traditional Taiwanese confectionary specializing in pineapple cakes and mung ...
, which also publishes the
Chinese-language news weekly of the same name.
History
''China News'' was founded on 6 June 1949 in
Taipei
Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the ...
by
James Wei,
a journalist with close ties to the KMT and former employee of the
Ministry of Information.
The newspaper was established to cater for foreign residents and the local population in Taiwan.
At the time it was the only English-language daily newspaper in Taiwan and it was a newspaper published in the afternoon. Later on, in order to compete with its new competitor, ''China News'' had to change and was published in the morning in order not to lose its advertisements.
In 1960, the newspaper switched to block printing in a full-size page format.
Wei left the newspaper in 1965. Wei was also a
Reuters
Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world.
The agency was est ...
correspondent and deputy director of the
Central News Agency. During his later years he was the sixth Director of the Government Information Office, serving from October 31, 1966, to June 1, 1972. Wei was a close advisor to
Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo (27 April 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a politician of the Republic of China after its Retreat of the Republic of China to Taiwan, retreat to Taiwan. The eldest and only biological son of former