/ Staff writer, with CNATaiwanese pitcher Wang Chien-ming (王建民) on Sunday said that his return to Major League Baseball after an absence of nearly thr
YESTERDAY’S MAN: Without the backing of Russian troops, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must begin to negotiate a political transition at Geneva, ana
By Abraham Gerber / Staff reporterNew Power Party (NPP) legislators-elect yesterday met with former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝), while denying that a
LIVING HIS DREAM: Against his father’s wishes, Kao Ting-cheng entered the air force, and became a good enough pilot to be offered a training program i
By Liu Hsiao-hsin, Chen Kuan-pei and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writerDisregarding a mist of rain as well as a cold front, People First
ANTI-TERROR EFFORT: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Taiwan is helping with humanitarian aid as part of its contributions to the international ant
‘NO FAVORITES’: US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Daniel Russel said that discussions during recent visits by Taiwan’s presidential candid
Researchers fitted a man who has been paralyzed for more than a decade with an experimental prosthetic hand that lets him "feel" sensations, the US mi
TWO-HANDED PLAY: The KMT said the DPP is trying to attract both swing and ‘deep-green’ voters by having Tsai and William Lai advocate contradictory po
The extremist Islamic State group has closed playgrounds in a Syrian city because they were being used as a meeting place for unrelated men and women,
‘SLEEP-INDUCING’: Chairman Yok Mu-ming filed charges of treason against Lee Teng-hui over his remarks on the Diaoyutais, which Lee said were clearly p
ILLEGAL ADJUSTMENT? In response to concerns, the K-12 education administration director said the alterations were entirely legal, and the changes woul
/ Staff writer, with CNA, WASHINGONThe announcement by the US Department of State on Tuesday that Washington will begin selling armed drones to its al
UNILATERAL MOVE: The foreign ministry said that since China has not yet filed an application with the UN agency about the new routes, they can still b
CHORUS OF CURIOSITY: New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu heard endorsements for an inventory of the Chinese Nationalist Party’s financial and real-estate a
By William Lowther / Staff reporter in WASHINGTONTaiwan could have the first of a new fleet of diesel-electric submarines operating in its waters in s
By Alison Hsiao / Staff reporterThe Cross-Strait Taiwanese Business People Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Fan Club celebrated its establishment in Ta
RESPONSIBILITY DILEMNA: Woody Duh said that the responsibility for the nation’s pipelines was shared by different agencies, depending on where they we
INTIMIDATION: Critics questioned whether laws have been broken by turning over information about people who sought medical treatment during demonstrat
SWISS STANCE: The ex-US deputy assistant secretary of state for Asia warned against a repeat of Washington’s perceived picking of sides in Taiwan’s 20