The president of the US-Taiwan Business Council yesterday confirmed a report in a US-based defense magazine that the US State Department had...

Jason Miks of Australian magazine The Diplomat contacted me yesterday for comment on the economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) Ta...

Recent comments by the Philippines’ trade and industry secretary cast doubt on the feasibility of Taiwan being able to sign free-trade agree...

In the Kafkaesque world of Chinese political repression, two words stand out as epitomizing continuity and adaptation in the Chinese Communi...

What does a Canadian reporter, columnist and deputy news editor do on his one day off in Taipei? The obvious answer, if you lived in Taiwan,...

From the Merriam-Webster dictionary: Hard-line , adj. Definition: advocating or involving a rigidly uncompromising course of action. Radica...

The Kuosheng nuclear power plant in Wanli (萬里), Taipei County, is an “absolute disaster,” according to the head of a diving company charged ...

After Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Pan Meng-an (潘孟安) told the legislature late last month that five stakeholders at Hong Ko...

Describing protests in Taipei on June 3, in which some demonstrators threw chairs at a building where discussions on a proposal for a refere...

Hong Kong investor Peter Kwok (郭炎) could become the largest shareholder of Chinatrust Financial Holding Co (中信金控) and ownership of Taiwan’s ...

Seven years after an international warrant was issued against former Liberian president Charles Taylor, investigators have yet to find any m...

Forget about the military threat from China, risks of war in the Taiwan Strait, Beijing’s purchase of US debt or its dislocating effect on j...

Defense experts and officials in Taipei and Washington had mixed reactions to the embarrassing news, published on Monday by Defense News an...

As the saying goes, you stand where you sit. Not long ago, when Paul Wolfowitz was closer to defense than the corporatism he now embodies, h...

On its own, the widening gap in military capabilities in the Taiwan Strait — in which the Chinese air force will enjoy a more than two-to-on...

While the world focuses on China’s monitoring of Internet and SMS activity, news has now emerged that Beijing authorities are clamping down ...

Sometimes important pieces of information that probably belong on the front page bet “buried” inside the paper, which means that they will n...

After nearly half a century of Chine occupation of Tibet, riots on an unprecedented scale occurred not only in the Tibetan Administrative Re...

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday condemned a recent wave of sanctions against Chinese business media and journali...

A lot has been said about the April 25 debate pitting President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) against Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Ts...