As Taiwan prepares to go to the polls on Saturday, a small plastic pig has become a symbol of the choices facing the island: between a smaller or bigger welfare state, warmer or cooler ties with ...

Taiwan's opposition party has been handing out piggy banks for small donations from poorer voters who want to overcome the big bad wolf of corporate power in the upcoming presidential poll.

In Taiwan’s southernmost county of Pingtung, a major pork-producing area, pig farmer Wu Jung-en, 63, said he was “furious and shocked” when he heard the news.

Thousands of worshippers flocked to a "holy pig" festival in Taiwan, in which the carcasses of giant overfed swine are put on display, a custom deplored by animal rights campaigners as inhumane.