The View from Taiwan

The amazing beauty of Taroko. FocusTaiwan on the massive Asia Cement plant disaster outside Taroko Gorge... Economics officials said ...

Map of Gaoping Great Lakes Project ( source ). Google satellite image of area . Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert remains one of ...

The NYTimes hosts another commentary  by Tom Friedman, which just makes me want to wail and gnash my teeth.... He scribes: EVERY so often s...

J Michael Cole with another hard hitting Op-Ed in the Taipei Times on the recent calendar "errors" says Only fools wouldn’t see a ...

Gravel, of critical importance to the local political economy, has appeared again in conjunction with other ugly trends. First, the backgrou...

Q: How is the Taiwan Stock Market like a Bathyscaphe? A: Because they both plumb the depths while threatening to implode! Yes, that one'...

The Central News Agency has a nice bit of reporting out on the Hsieh-Ma debate. Among the local news organizations its reporting is general...

Typhoon Krosa, which caused the usual allotment of landslides, roadbed destruction, and flooding on the east coast, has apparently led to ca...

Foreigners outside of Taiwan admire our high tech industries and rambunctious democracy, never realizing that what really makes Taiwan's...

Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday voiced his support for Taichung County Commissioner Huang Chung-sheng's (黃仲生) proposal to dredge ...