As expected, the visit to the United States by China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, did not result in any policy breakthroughs — he is, after all, only the crown prince and has not yet been anointed as No. 1. The trip itself is the continuation of a pr

The International Election Observation Mission for fair elections said last month, "The election was mostly free but partly unfair." This was in reference to the most recent Taiwanese presidential election and its multiple influences, including an author

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is due to release a report on its defeat in the January presidential poll. It remains to be seen whether the main opposition party can really identify its stumbling blocks. But according to media outlets citing port

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Prosecutors have closed a money-laundering investigation against former Premier Frank Hsieh, reports said Thursday. An accusation was made that after the 2008 presidential election, in which Hsieh was the candidate for the Democrat

Incarcerated former President Chen Shui-bian was summoned yesterday for questioning as part of an investigation into allegations that he took more than 20 cartons of classified files with him when he left the Presidential Office in May 2008. Investigator

Taipei, Feb. 14 (CNA) Former President Chen Shui-bian, who is in jail for corruption, has become a review target of a pro-independence think tank in its ruminations as to why the DPP lost the Jan. 14 presidential election. The DPP should face up to the m

Taipei, Feb. 14 (CNA) Incarcerated former President Chen Shui-bian was summoned Tuesday for questioning as part of an investigation into allegations that he took more than 20 cartons of classified files with him when he left the Presidential Office in Ma

Taiwanese singer and actress Makiyo was released on $1,263 bail and barred from leaving the country early Tuesday, after being questioned by the Taipei District Prosecutors Office overnight about the alleged assault of a taxi driver. Makiyo was listed as

Taipei, Feb. 7 (CNA) Local singer and actress Makiyo was released on NT$30,000 (US$1,014) bail early Tuesday after being questioned about the alleged assault of a taxi driver by the Taipei District Prosecutors Office overnight. The prosecutors listed her

TAIPEI - A Taiwanese teenager who gained notoriety when he tried to con ex-president Chen Shui-bian was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison for swindling $200,000 from American Express, a court said. Huang Chao-kang, 19, was convicted of forging

On Jan 14, Ma Ying-jeou, the incumbent leader of Taiwan, won a hard fought battle for re-election. In 2008, the charismatic Ma had helped the Kuomintang return to power in a landslide after eight years of rule by the pro-independence Democratic Progressi

Taiwan's first four-year Legislative Yuan will open on Feb 1. Altogether 113 parliamentarians will be meeting for four years rather than three, as in the past, to tackle the increasingly tough job of legislating for the common good of the electorate. The

Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The re-election of Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, a booster of closer ties with China, is bullish for the island’s financial markets, according to Bank Julius Baer & Co. , Citigroup Inc. and Uni-President Assets Management Corp.

Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is the author of eight books on international affairs, including Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America. Share with your friends: U.S. officials and much of the East Asian busi

Recently popular comments in mainland China's weibo-sphere read in English: “English! Add Oil!” For people who are familiar with Chinese-English, the term “add oil” refers to the notoriously difficult-to-translate Chinese encouragement term “Jia you” (加油

THE presidential and parliamentary elections that Taiwan held on January 14th were unusual. No party was engulfed in scandal, as was the ruling party at the time in 2008. No candidate was shot at, as the incumbent was four years before that. China issued

TAIPEI - Former Vice President Annette Lu criticized the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Thursday for failing to thoroughly review its losses in the just concluded presidential and legislative elections. "The DPP's cross-Taiwan Strait policy was pa

Former DPP Chairman Hsu Hsin-liang called on the party to turn Tsai Ing-wen’s campaign words into an official declaration to be included in its platform. Following its defeat in last weekend’s presidential election, the opposition Democratic Progressive

On re-election Saturday, President Ma Ying-jeou warned his campaign managers and Kuomintang leaders “We have to be glad for just one day.” He was also warning himself. The president has to face the daunting task of guiding the nation in the face of a Eur