The most striking aspect of former Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) trial on corruption charges is the fact that neither he nor his lawyer dispute the basic charges: that he took public money and sent it to a private account.

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By Michael Danby
Since 2003 an estimated 400,000 people have died as a result of the campaign of ethnic cleansing being waged against the people of the Darfur region of Sudan by the military regime of General Omar al-Bashir. As many as 2.5 million people have been made into refugees.

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By Cao Changqing 曹長青
The broadcast of a video of a gangster delivering a death threat taken by TVBS Nantou reporter Shih Chen-kang (史鎮康) has caused quite a stir. TVBS committed at least five major journalistic errors in this incident.

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MIT's radical move to make almost all of the institute's course materials available free online has benefited many and further fueled interest in paid enrollment
By Noam Cohen
Lucifer Chu (朱學恆), a 31-year-old from Taipei, is as good an example as any of the shrinking distances between East and West.

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An endless toll of kidnapping and murder fueled by political and factional violence risks tearing this small strip of land apart
It began with a kidnapping, a beating and the theft of a white Mitsubishi saloon car. Two months on, Omar Yusuf Hadad, 77, a retired businessman, sat in an armchair in his flat in Gaza City and calmly admitted that his family had captured, questioned, beaten and killed one of their neighbors. Then, with impunity, they dumped his body in the street just outside their own apartment block.

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By Laura Feng
The international community has a tendency to be uncomfortable around the "Taiwan issue."

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