Before dawn on Monday morning, as most people slept off the relatively low-key New Year celebrations of the night before, the Presidential Office was the scene of a flag-raising ceremony marking the 95th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of China.

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By Hung Chih-wen 洪致文
Despite the public's skepticism, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications has granted an operating license to the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp (THSRC).

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By Sushil Seth
Even as China's imperial reach expands -- witness the recent summit in Beijing of African leaders -- its contradictions and disparities continue to grow.

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By Chen Tai-an 陳泰安
On Christmas eve, the Maltese freighter Tzini ran aground off Suao (蘇澳). The ship leaked over 100 tonnes of oil into the sea. The 200m-wide oil spill severely polluted the neighboring waters, extending 5km along the coast to Nanfangao (南方澳).

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Amid warnings that shrill voices crying doom could paralyze instead of inspire, more experts are challenging both sides of the environmental debate -- a group described by one scientist as `nonskeptical heretics'
By Andrew Revkin
Amid the shouting lately about whether global warming is a human-caused catastrophe or a hoax, some usually staid climate scientists in the usually invisible middle are speaking up.

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By J. Bradford DeLong
What do we owe to our great-great-great-grandchildren? What actions are we obligated to take now in order to diminish the risks to our descendants and our planet from the increasing likelihood of global warming and climate change?

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