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EDITORIAL: Confronting the real estate bubble
Over the past two weeks, two top government officials have sounded the alarm over Taipei’s housing market, warning that signs of a bubble are emerging. Their remarks appear to show that the years they have fought to curb rising housing prices have been in vainFULL STORY
Public opinion outweighing facts
By Herbert Hanreich
Whenever debating the pros and cons of capital punishment, the situation is always the same: Nearly all students favor the use of capital punishment, arguing that its abolition would result in social chaos. Furthermore, it would not meet the fair and just demand of theFULL STORY
China sees air defense zone as a ‘no-fly zone’
By Su Tzu-yun 蘇紫雲
A road hog, which in Taiwan signifies a person who paints their own parking space or uses flowerpots to block off public space for use as private parking, is disliked because they require others to ask their permission to park, “or else.” Still, this isFULL STORY
[ LETTER ]
A religious context Bret Hinsch tried to defend marriage equality by interpreting the opponent’s slogan “traditional family” as referring to traditional “Chinese” family, which is inappropriate (“Traditional values may surprise,” page 8, Dec. 6). I would like to point out the trap in the term “traditional” here.FULL STORY
First planned Palestinian city a symbol of pride
By Karin Laub
A state-of-the-art Palestinian city with residential towers, a mall and a convention center is rapidly going up on once-desolate West Bank hills and turning into a symbol of national pride. A giant Palestinian flag flies from the highest point of Rawabi, signaling to Israeli settlers livingFULL STORY
A year after Newtown shooting, US rift over gun laws deepens
By Adam Geller
A year ago, the massacre of 20 children and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, confronted Americans with vexing questions about guns and violence. The collective search for answers has given way to ambivalence and deepened division. Today, half of Americans say the country needs stricter gunFULL STORY
EDITORIAL: Policy, not slogans, is what we need2013-12-08
President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration is good at forming policies and creating project plans, despite its poor record of implementation. In one of the latest project proposals, the Ministry of Education on Wednesday presented a white paper on talent cultivation, which outlines a 10-year planFULL STORY
Cairo Declaration has limitations2013-12-08
By Gerrit van der Wees
Dec. 1 marked the 70th anniversary of the Cairo Declaration, that was issued after the November 1943 summit by then-US president Franklin Roosevelt, then-British prime minister Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石). The commemoration gave rise to a conference in Taipei titled “The Cairo Declaration 70thFULL STORY
Need for green action was clear2013-12-08
By Chan Shun-kuei 詹順貴
Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺), having watched the documentary Beyond Beauty — Taiwan From Above (看見台灣), immediately ordered a task force to be established to look into the theft of gravel, the overuse of land in mountain areas and the sustainability of state land. The inter-departmentalFULL STORY
KMT serves to obscure national sovereignty2013-12-08
By Wei Hung-wu 韋洪武
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