The View from Taiwan

Ruined animal pens Huge controversy this week ( Taipei Times ) over the military police seizing documents relating to the 2-28 massacre an...

Caught in mid-flight, early morning dew on its back. The MaWangMess continues to blow back on the President, as Taipei District prosecut...

The Taipei Times printed the text : As international SCHOLARS and writers who applauded the transition to democracy, that began in the lat...

Wedding photos can break out anywhere. Whoa, the Taipei Times reports on the recent developments. Prosecutor-General Huang Shih-...

Cutting a key. Taiwan rocked and rolled to the news today that the Minister of Justice Tseng Yung-fu is going to be indicted by the SID,...

The Taipei Times reports : Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was yesterday sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Taiwan High Court for...

As everyone knows, former President, Vice President, Taipei Mayor, and award-winning ag econ scholar Lee Teng-hui, a tower of recent Taiwan ...

A court in -- where else? -- Taichung handed down a landmark ruling on free speech, sentencing a local blogger to 30 days and $7,000 US in c...

Politically, the President of the Taiwan people, now the extremely capable Ma Ying-jeou... -- from a recent report on US-China relations by...

How do like that anti-corruption rally the KMT has slated for Nov 21 for Taipei, that city where the higher levels of the KMT administration...

I had a lot of fun shooting the east coast from the train the other day coming back to Taipei from Hualien. Cleaning up the judiciary? Three...

Taichung Harbor from the viewing platform atop the passenger terminal. Then came a bit of stubbed ground, once a wood, Next a marsh, it woul...

For the past few years, even before being elevated to the Presidency, Ma Ying-jeou has been pointing to Singapore as a government to admired...

...and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy ...

Lost in the shuffle of events this month was the indictment of former deputy foreign minister Michael Kau. The China Post wrote: His Nationa...

First, Saturday the 19th (tomorrow) there is a protest march that is going from the main gate of Taida to the Memorial Hall with Two Names, ...

Some statements: First from Dr. Michael Stainton, President of the Taiwanese Human Rights Association of Canada. +++++++++++++++ Guilty by v...