James Soong, Taiwan's special envoy to the 2016 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leader's summit, said during a press conference at the end of the summit Monday that he had pulled off a diplomatic "home run" by having engaging in individual interactions with all 21 APEC leaders.

Even for those who worry about the environment, climate change often seems to be a distant concern in terms of both space and time -- a reckoning at least decades away that will touch mainly people living on remote islands.

Uber Asia Pacific General Manager Mike Brown published an open letter to President Tsai Ing-wen last week, calling out her administration for its latest crackdown on the market-disrupting ride-booking giant.

Lawmakers have voted to abolish the Special Investigation Division (SID), the special prosecutorial body whose job has been to clamp down on corruption on the highest levels of the government.

This weekend, Taiwan's envoy to APEC James Soong will meet world leaders to discuss regional economic cooperation.

The age of the political outsiders is coming. That's already happened in the United States, where voters have elected the flamboyant, outspoken business tycoon Donald Trump, who had no political credentials whatsoever until the presidential campaign. And it is not unthinkable that the same could happen in Taiwan.

James Soong, chairman of the People First Party, is all set to go to Lima, Peru for the 24th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which is scheduled to open on Saturday. President Tsai Ing-wen, who was barred from attending the meeting, gave the old dog of politics his last day in the sun.

The world is looking desperately for answers after Republican candidate Donald Trump's shocking election last week. What will happen when Trump assumes office? How did everyone get the polling so wrong and predict his defeat?

One of the many recent fiery debates involving social welfare and the public interest is that over the probable lifting of a ban on food imported from five Japanese prefectures affected by the 2011 nuclear disaster, namely Gunma, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Chiba.

Many critics, and even China's state media, have warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump against isolationism, urging him to let the United States continue playing an active role in global affairs. For Taiwan, U.S. isolationism could have tremendous consequences.