The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won three of the four local by-elections today, including wins in traditionally Chinese Nationalist P...

Independent sources have informed me that a well-known international wire agency has been sitting on a “big” Taiwan/China story “for weeks” ...

The Presidential Office last week quickly corrected an “error” made after a meeting between President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and US Representati...

Some took issue with the lack of French content. Others focused on the small glitch at the end of the ceremony, when one of the legs forming...

State-owned Central News Agency called it a “surprise,” but it was anything but. National Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General Su Chi (蘇...

The Presidential Office on Tuesday commented on why foreign media had not been allowed to attend a briefing by Ma on the ECFA. In an e-mail ...

The Taiwan Foreign Correspondent’s Club (TFCC) yesterday lodged a protest with the Presidential Office after being informed that foreign rep...

Amid clear warnings by Beijing that US President Barack Obama should avoid meeting the Dalai Lama at the White House later this month, anoth...

At first glance, Hong Kong and Singapore could be twins, but the manner in which the authorities handled political dissent led to very diffe...

Last year, a retired intelligence officer and a journalist co-authored a book about foreign espionage in Canada. In one section of the book,...

Washington-based weekly Defense News reported on Tuesday that the Taiwan Air Force had selected the Eurocopter EC225 helicopter, a medium-l...

Despite Beijing’s shrill response to the announcement on Friday that the US would submit for congressional approval about US$6.4 billion in ...

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...