News Source: Taiwan News
| about 6 hours ago
President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday the plan to donate excess A (H1N1) vaccines to the World Health Organization showed Taiwan was a peacemaker. However, the swine flu virus also made its 32nd fatal victim yesterday, a young woman in Tainan City.
News Source: Taiwan News
| about 9 hours ago
The cross-strait "reconciliation" pushed by Ma since taking office in May 2008 appeared to hit a couple of potholes this fall with controversies over the invitation by opposition Democratic Progressive Party mayors to the Dalai Lama to visit Taiwan
News Source: Taiwan News
| about 11 hours ago
Taiwan and Japan are equitable and Taiwan could not have possibly forced the Japanese representative to resign, Shen said. "The ministry respects the decision by Saito, the JIA and the Japanese government," he said. There have been a number of recent
News Source: Taiwan News
| about 21 hours ago
In light of Taiwan's dramatic democratization and the emergence of a pluralist society in the past two decades, political leaders should focus their leadership arts on bridging the gaps on national identification, seeking social consensus on major
News Source: Macleans
| 1 day ago
Taiwan's government is scrambling to rally popular support ahead of local elections this week and the crucial visit later in the month of a senior Chinese envoy. President Ma Ying-jeou has travelled around the island to stump for candidates from his
News Source: Taiwan News
| 1 day ago
Taiwan's former vice president blasted the government's policies of closer ties with China, but declined to say yesterday whether she herself would visit the mainland, underscoring her party's struggle to define its attitude toward Beijing. A
News Source: Japan Times
| 1 day ago
Japan's top envoy to Taiwan, Makoto Saito, resigned as director of the Interchange Association, Tokyo's de facto embassy in Taipei, association officials said Tuesday. Saito quit for "personal reasons," the officials said on condition of anonymity.
News Source: Taiwan News
| 1 day ago
President Ma Ying-jeou and other officials in his Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) administration claimed late last week that the Taiwan economy "has recovered" from the impact of the global financial tsunami, but this judgment is likely to