Israel’s ‘all out war’ against Hamas According to UN statistics, Palestinian Occupied Territories (OT) ranked No. 106 worldwide on the Human...

Taiwan removed from rights Web site [UPDATED] By J. Michael Cole and Jenny W. Hsu STAFF REPORTERS Last month Taiwan was removed from the li...

Beijing's bid to 'internalize' Taiwan One of the key components of Beijing’s policy on Taiwan and Tibet has been to internalize ...

Han Kuang military exercises broken in half A Taiwanese Ministry of National Defense official said yesterday that amid thawing relations in ...

Asia’s insecure giant So powerful has China become since its miraculous “rise,” so mighty has it grown since it began modernizing its milita...

Wild Strawberries evicted: Did Ma lie, or was he kept in the dark? Hours after President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) praised Taiwan as one of the fre...

US expert exposes pros and cons of the digital age Before a packed auditorium at the Taipei American School yesterday, John Palfrey, Harvard...

Canada’s shameful opposition Countries with long traditions of democracy often like to flaunt that accomplishment by either lording it over ...

It’s everywhere you want to be — except Taiwan [UPDATED] I finally received yesterday my renewed Visa card from the Royal Bank of Canada (RB...

Cross-Strait Developments and Implications for Northeast Asia: Views from the Region Institute of International Relations – Brookings forum ...

Ma in a corner over the Dalai Lama The announcement by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday that he hopes to visit Taiwan — whe...

Ninety minutes with Ma Ying-jeou President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) addressed a room packed with foreign correspondents at the Sherwood Hotel in d...

Cape No. 7: A movie 'most offensive' Taiwanese director Wei Te-sheng’s (魏德聖) hit movie Cape No. 7 is as inoffensive a movie as I ha...

Book Review: The thin red line in the Taiwan Strait If the world is to see its first hot war between two nuclear superpowers in the 21st cen...

Advice in a vacuum Every time the European Chamber of Commerce Taipei (ECCT) gives advice to Taiwan on how it should run its economy, I get ...

A strong dose of fear Despite high expectations by the world, and Americans alike, that the election on Nov. 4 of Barack Obama would bring a...

Wo Weihan, a case for Taipei [UPDATED] With organizations such as Amnesty International calling on Beijing to commute the death sentence aga...

PAC-3: Costly, costlier and of marginal value A major component of Taiwan’s planned US$6.5 billion arms acquisition from the US is 330 Patri...

A lesson in life for TAS students It is often said that young people have it easy, that they have everything served on a silver platter and ...

Peace in the Strait? ORBAT says otherwise Intelligence analysts are trained (sometimes mistakenly) to assume the worst in their field. The a...