Once again, the helm of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) is due to be transferred from one career diplomat to another.

The Control Yuan is Taiwan's highest watchdog body. Its members, nominated by the president and confirmed by the Legislative Yuan, may be better known as ombudsmen in the West.

Our Bureau of Investigation has found that at least half of the processed foods advertised as 100 percent vegetarian that they inspected contained meat. Altogether 31 vegetarian food retailers were inspected.

“Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression “individual rights” is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos).

In June 17, “reload” was probably the most frequently pressed button in the world's Web browsers as hundreds of thousands of people waited anxiously for the promised release of Apple Inc.'s iPhone OS 3.0.

President Ma Ying-jeou made a momentous recommendation for cultural exchange between Taiwan and China the other day. He said that he hopes a joint venture will be launched to compile a grand Chinese dictionary.

The sudden passing of two global superstars, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, has people around the world looking back toward a bygone era.

Mainland China indicated this week that it supports the idea that scholars and lexicographers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait join hands to compile a comprehensive dictionary of Chinese language (中華大辭典).

Earlier this week, local media reported that Minister of Education Cheng Jei-cheng gave instructions to his ministry to significantly reduce the amount of money the MOE will spend on a campaign to teach schoolchildren morals.

The Ministry of Education (MOE) announced that English teaching at elementary schools will begin in August 2011. From now until then, the MOE will first implement the “Plan for Reforming English Education for Elementary Schools” to set the stage.