U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to slap punitive tariffs on Chinese tires for automobiles and light trucks is certain to draw China's ire.

At long last, the Taipei City Government has announced that the Xinsheng Elevated Expressway will be ready to re-open early next month.

Over the coming days, President Ma Ying-jeou is planning to hold separate meetings with ruling Kuomintang lawmakers.

Premier Wu Den-yih will come under heavy fire at his debut appearance at the Legislative Yuan today. The chances are that the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will boycott him, demanding he step down as a liar.

“All the King's Men” is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by American author Robert Penn Warren.

There is an old adage that admonishes one to “look before you leap.” Taipei City has done a lot of leaping recently, but perhaps too little looking.

A Danshui sports fishing boat skipper and his crew member were arrested by Japanese maritime safety agents on charges of trespassing into Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) near the disputed Tiaoyutai Islands yesterday morning.

The debate now raging within the United States about how to punish U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson for heckling President Barack Obama has become somewhat of a curiosity here in Taiwan.

In August 10, 1924 in Paris, a deaf auto mechanic, a competitive cyclist and a deaf sports champion named Eugene Rubens-Alcais gathered fellow hearing-impaired athletes from nine countries to compete in the first International Silent Games, or what is now called the Deaflympics.

Former President Chen Shui-bian was convicted of forgery, corruption and graft, and money laundering yesterday. He was sentenced to life in prison by Tsai Shou-hsun, the presiding judge at the Taipei District Court. Of course, ex-President Chen, a consummate defense lawyer, will appeal the guilty verdict.