The US$6 billion arms sale to Taiwan announced by Washington on Friday will not bring much to Taiwan in terms of its ability to defend itsel...

This article was published today in the   Taipei Times . I have included, in italics, sentences or paragraphs that were trimmed for space b...

In a commentary on Tuesday Jan. 19 on the role of the US in relief efforts in quake-devastated Haiti, the Chinese-language United Daily News...

My feature on Adimmune appeared today in the Taipei Times . I have reproduced the entire article here and added (different font) some of the...

The kind lady in charge of merchandise at the Page One bookstore in Taipei 101 just informed me that the store has finally received copies o...

The decision by the Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) administration to allow Chinese to study in Taiwan has understandably given rise to apprehensions abo...

The US beef debacle has opened yet another door for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in its claim that the Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) administ...

Had the one day off today. On my way to an afternoon fueled by coffee and idiosyncratic music at Kafka on the Shore near National Taiwan Uni...

Australian magazine The Diplomat published its APAC 2020: The Decade Ahead report today, which brought together a series of academics and ...

Yin Zhuo, an admiral and senior researcher at the Chinese Navy’s Equipment Research Center, said today that China needs a permanent naval ba...

Chinese authorities confirmed today that 53-year-old British citizen Akmal Shaikh was executed by lethal injection in Xinjiang, despite plea...

A handful of noteworthy books have been published in recent years that attempt to weigh the impact of the world’s intoxication with “made in...

If you’ve visited the observatory on the 89th floor of the Taipei 101 building recently, you’ll notice that in order to go down again, you h...

The “new” arms package recently touted by US officials has yet to be confirmed by US President Barack Obama. Nevertheless, supporters of Tai...

Something else I meant to discuss in my previous post about Premier Wu Den-yih’s (吳敦義) address to the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club in...

When it comes to prearranged meetings between the media and government officials, one can almost always expect that there will be no surpris...

Modern Chinese history, Yu Peter Kien-hong argues, can be divided into two defining periods — the First Long March, led by Communist leader ...

Among the many reasons why the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) didn’t perform well in the 2008 presidential election is the fact that its...