President Barack Obama declared Friday that America is "going to have to make some choices" balancing privacy and security, launching a vigorous defense of formerly secret programs that sweep up an estimated 3 billion phone calls a day and amass Internet data from U.S. providers in an attempt to thwart terror attacks.

President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday apologized over a controversial Accounting Act amendment, saying that the Cabinet will propose a reconsideration of the Legislature's resolution.

U.S. spies are secretly tapping into servers of nine Internet giants including Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google in a vast anti-terror sweep targeting foreigners, reports said Thursday.

A personal letter written by Republican presidential nominee John McCain to President Ma Ying-jeou in 2008 was stolen as part of a massive cyberespionage operation backed by the Chinese government, NBC News reported Thursday.

The stock market rose sharply in early trading Friday after the U.S. government reported that hiring picked up in May.

U.S. President Barack Obama will complain to Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit on Friday about alleged Chinese hacking of U.S. secrets, even as the White House faces growing questions at home over American government surveillance.

A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans' phone records -- hundreds of millions of calls -- in the first hard evidence of a massive data collection program aimed at combating terrorism under powers granted by Congress after the 9/11 attacks.

Military commanders promised a tour of this northeast Nigeria city, the birthplace of the nation's Islamic extremist insurgency, to show the busy streets and people selling fruits from wheelbarrows pressed right up against the road.

The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Taipei yesterday released its annual Taiwan White Paper, calling upfront for the Ma administration to boost the nation's overall competitiveness.

The European Commission said Thursday it strongly disagreed with key findings of an International Monetary Fund report on Greece's first debt bailout, calling some areas "plainly wrong."