The Kuomintang (KMT) seemed to be back to its old self when President Ma Ying-jeou took up the chairmanship at the eighteenth national congress of the party yesterday.

Former President Chen Shui-bian had an alibi for suing U.S. President Barack Obama and his Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for failing to continue placing Taiwan under U.S. military occupation.

Taiwan was one of the few bright spots in an otherwise lackluster 2009 policy address by Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang, whose speech Wednesday was rated by a University of Hong Kong survey as the least popular in his five-year tenure.

A series of recent accidents and incidents involving the island's long-distance bus service sector has raised an alarm over the safety of this popular kind of public transportation.

There's no need whatsoever for the Government Information Office (GIO) to consult academics on Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) charges that at least three TV networks in Taipei aired a military parade in Beijing live to scare the people of Taiwan.

Former first son Chen Chih-chung has admitted he helped launder NT$700 million (US$21.5 million) at a Swiss bank for his parents.

“Rashomon” is a famous Japanese movie that was the first Asian film to have won the Grand Prix at Cannes, shortly after the end of the Second World War.

To the best of our understanding, Chen Shui-bian is a consummate defense lawyer, if not a mediocre president.

Last week the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) released figures showing a rise in Taiwan's women's labor force participation rate — a measure of the percentage of women of working age who are employed or looking for work — to 49.7 percent in 2008, up from around 46 percent in 2002.

Ever since the Nobel Peace Prize started being awarded in 1901, the Norwegian Nobel Committee in charge of selecting laureates has made many surprising choices.