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