Taiwan says China is framing and entrapping people, and that putting people on television to confess crimes before going to trial is a serious breach of proper legal process.

Speaking at Taiwan's National Day celebrations on Saturday, Tsai took note of recent remarks by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a video message to the U.N. General Assembly that China would never seek hegemony, expansion or to establish a sphere of influence.

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

 U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar arrived in Taiwan on Sunday in the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic relations between Washington and Taipei in 1979.

When the season opened on April 11 after a three-week delay, only players, team personnel and cheerleaders were allowed in the stadium.

A special government committee will look into the cause of the crash, a defence ministry statement said.

Since legalisation on May 24, more than 2,150 same-sex couples have married in Taiwan, government data shows.

A female EVA Air flight attendant said she was forced to undress a passenger and then clean his backside after the man used the lavatory during a flight from Los Angeles to Taipei last week.

Taiwan plans to hold a series of newly-designed military drills in the wake of Chinese President Xi Jinping's threat to take over the island.

An out-of-control boulder came just feet away from hitting a driver in Taiwan in this shocking near-miss caught on camera.