Taipei Times media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Taipei Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 190 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Taipei Times biased?
The rating organisations do not give Taipei Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Taipei Times left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Taipei Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Taipei Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Taipei Times are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Taipei Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Taipei Times’s own report linked underneath.
Jesús de Miguel, a 30-year-old Tenerife attacker, died on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. He had suffered a cardiac arrest following a collision with FC Andorra goalkeeper Jesús Owono during a second-division match on Monday. The player was taken to hospital after the incident.
Taipei Times reported it asSpanish player De Miguel dies after collision (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Iranian state media reported hearing five explosions on Qeshm Island, near Bandar Lengeh in Hormozgan province. Some residents reported seeing two aircraft in the sky. No official confirmation of the source has been released.
Taipei Times reported it asWashington strikes Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz: US official (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Control of the US Senate is expected to hinge on a handful of closely contested races in the upcoming midterm elections. Key battles in states like Michigan and Texas are drawing particular attention as indicators of broader political trends.
Taipei Times reported it asDemocrats, Trump hold final rallies (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
South Korea's 2027 budget proposal includes a significant increase in funding for artificial intelligence and semiconductors. President Lee Jae Myung aims to bolster the nation's technological capabilities with an investment of 21.3 trillion won, nearly double the amount allocated for the previous year.
Taipei Times reported it asS Korea to double spending on AI, chips next year (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Thousands gathered in Novi Sad, Serbia, to mark the second anniversary of a railway station canopy collapse that killed 16 people. The tragedy, which occurred on November 1, 2024, is linked to protests that contributed to the fall of the ruling party.
Taipei Times reported it asSerbia marks Novi Sad station disaster anniversary (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Tens of thousands gathered for Taiwan's annual Pride parade in Taipei, one of Asia's largest LGBTQ+ celebrations. Organizers estimated 150,000 people attended the event, which follows a recent police raid on a gay bar in the city.
Taipei Times reported it asLai calls for respect for all as Taiwan celebrates Pride (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Patrick Stewart, the British actor famous for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek' and Professor Charles Xavier in 'X-Men', has died at the age of 86. His death was announced by his family.
Taipei Times reported it as‘Star Trek,’ Shakespeare actor Patrick Stewart dies (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Pentagon officials have asked several NATO countries, including Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, to tone down their public rhetoric regarding the threat posed by Russia. The request stems from concerns that some European statements have undermined continental security.
Taipei Times reported it asUS tells EU allies to cool it over Russia (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security issue on its platform. Stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle have frozen billions of dollars in assets connected to the incident, while Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao stated user funds remain safe.
Taipei Times reported it asCrypto platform Binance confirms US$6.3bn hack (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Taiwan's National Security Council secretary-general has highlighted a significant Chinese naval presence, posting a map of 53 vessels including warships and an aircraft carrier. He described the threat to Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines as 'obvious'.
Taipei Times reported it asChinese warship threat ‘obvious:’ official (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Pakistan has closed its airspace to all airlines from Taiwan, citing support for Beijing's 'One China' policy. This move, confirmed by Pakistan's Defence Minister, has led Taiwanese carriers to reroute flights, with some now using Russian airspace. Pakistan is reportedly the first country to implement such a ban.
Taipei Times reported it asAirlines are free to choose routes, minister says (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
US stock indexes, including the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, opened higher on Tuesday. Easing oil prices and anticipation of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision influenced market sentiment, alongside a focus on corporate earnings, particularly those related to artificial intelligence.
Taipei Times reported it asTech stocks soar as SK Hynix adds to rising AI confidence (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Oxfam’s new study says the world’s richest 0.1% produce more carbon than the poorest 3.5 billion, that the richest 1% account for 20% of warming since 1990, and that their emissions could cause 1.9 million excess heat‑related deaths, mostly in low‑income nations.
Taipei Times reported it asSuper-rich cashing in on climate crisis, report finds (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
The US military has banned Chinese carmaker BYD's electric vehicles from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. The ban, which began on Monday, is attributed to concerns over potential data leaks from vehicle cameras and sensors.
Taipei Times reported it asUS bans vehicles from China’s BYD at base in Japan (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
A localized ceasefire in Oleshky, Ukraine, brokered by First Lady Melania Trump, began on Tuesday to facilitate humanitarian aid. This comes as President Zelenskyy reported a significant overnight barrage of Russian missiles and drones.
Taipei Times reported it asUS-brokered truce begins in Oleshky (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Philippine police have discovered a significant amount of child pornography at the former home of Thomas Markle, father of Meghan Markle. The country's Interior Minister stated that evidence suggests he may be a sex offender of the worst kind. Markle denies the allegations.
Taipei Times reported it asThomas Markle Sr probed over ‘child sex abuse images’ (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
China's Communist Party began its Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee in Beijing on October 26. President Xi Jinping opened the meeting, which is scheduled to last four days and focuses on enhancing party discipline and self-governance.
Taipei Times reported it asXi opens Communist Party plenum (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
China's Communist Party began its Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee in Beijing on October 26. President Xi Jinping opened the meeting, which is scheduled to last four days and focuses on enhancing party discipline and self-governance.
Taipei Times reported it asPlenum aims to extend Xi’s rule: official (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
The US Department of Defense has designated Confucius Institutes as a threat to national security. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that 80 new propaganda cells were identified across 30 universities and have been dismantled.
Taipei Times reported it asChina-funded Confucius Institutes deemed US national security threat: Hegseth (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, posted on X urging Cubans seeking political change to enter a discreet partnership with the CIA. The statement came shortly after President Donald Trump suggested the US might take action against Cuba.
Taipei Times reported it asUS’ Marco Rubio urges Cubans to work with CIA (opens Taipei Times in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- The Liberty Times GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Official site
- taipeitimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- taipeitimes.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 190
- Reports listed
- 193
- We could read
- 5
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
188 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 5 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 80 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Taipei Times ran the story anyway.
Across the 191 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Taipei Times’s on 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 2 days after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 4 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 November 2026. Ratings pulled 4 November 2026.
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