Taipei Times May 07, 2010 By now almost everyone in Taiwan must be aware of the story of Chen Shu-chu (陳樹菊). Chen, a single woman who only completed elementary school, has spent the best part of her life selling vegetables at her local market in Taitung, donating a staggering NT$10 million (US$315,000) to local...
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Taiwan News 2010-05-04 Taiwan’s reputation as a country with a vibrantly free news media suffered another blow Friday when the renowned New York-based “Freedom House” human rights monitoring lowered our rating for news freedom for the second straight year. In its report on “Freedom of the Press 2010: A Global Survey of Media Independence”...
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EDITORIAL: Taipei Times Apr 08, 2010 As growing numbers of Falun Gong practitioners flee persecution in China, they are coming to the attention of overseas Chinese. Protest activities where they hold up banners and arrange press conferences accusing China of persecution are spreading all over the world. Falun Gong activities are a common sight...
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EDITORIAL Taiwan News 2010-02-23 Through an apparent “slip of the tongue” last week, President Ma Ying-jeou sent a message to the world that his right-wing Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) government does not consider Taiwan to be a “state.” During a meeting last Wednesday with U.S Representative James Sensenbrenner Jr, Ma was quoted in a...
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A week or two ago, I saw this news popping up around the blogs about a new book by a Yuan Hongbing, a former Dean (of School of Criminal Law) at Beijing University, which reveals the steps that China is hoping to take in order to bring Taiwan under its control by 2012. Yes,...
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