/ Staff writer, with CNADespite the easing of tensions across the Taiwan Strait in recent years, Taiwan’s security cannot depend on the goodwill of Ch
JOB INTERVIEW? Cui said Tsai first has to pass the test of the 1.3 billion Chinese and he wondered why she would talk to foreigners, but not directly
‘FEELING THREATENED’: The KMT legislative caucus said its members walked out of the meeting because of what they called unreasonable negotiation metho
五千多移民擠收容所南非近來爆發二○○八年以來最嚴重的排外暴亂,東部港市德班(Durban)外圍鄉鎮三週來頻傳暴民劫掠商店與縱火情事,還有暴民持大刀砍殺外國人,迄今已造成至少九人喪生、五千多名移民被迫前往臨時收容所避風頭。暴動近日更蔓延至第一大城約翰尼斯堡鄰近地區,約堡警方協助外國居民撤離,總統祖瑪十
By Loa Iok-sin / Staff reporterDemocratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators yesterday lashed out at Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman and N
DELAYING TACTIC? China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said it was certain Taipei understands more about the new routes, but did not mention postponing implem
CHINA THREAT: Dozens of protesters mobilized by the TSU tried to enter the venue to stop the meeting, but were outnumbered by police and dragged away
AIRING PROBLEMS: Despite calls for Wang Yu-chi to avoid a scheduled appointment, he said that he believed in meeting to discuss issues face-to-face
BUSINESS AS USUAL: The ministry said it would keep its approach to US ties low-key, after an ROC flag flown at a Washington estate owned by Taiwan spa
FLAG FLAP: Following China’s ‘furious’ response, the State Department said no US government personnel attended the ceremony, and that relations remain
‘EMPTY WORDS’: Skeptics said reconciliation would be hard if Ma could not even mend relations with Wang Jin-pyng and grant Chen Shui-bian medical paro
By Wu Chun-feng / Staff reporterDuring his tour of Taiwan, China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) Chairman Chen Deming (陳
‘ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS’: DPP legislators excoriated Chinese President Xi Jinping for his stance on cross-strait ‘unification’ and solving the ‘Taiw
DHARMA BUMMED: Local legislators condemned China’s repression of religious freedom alongside a woman who said she escaped detention by Chinese officia
FAMILIAR FACES: The people behind the initiative for an ‘international legal persona of the ROC and the PRC’ include former officials, and KMT and DPP
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