South Korea's snub of President Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) envoys before the inauguration of its new President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday has once again highlighted the precarious position Taiwan occupies on the international stage.

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By Chen Hurng-yu 陳鴻瑜
Just before the Lunar New Year, President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) visited Taiping Island and Dongsha Island in the South China Sea to send the message that the Spratly Islands belong to Taiwan.

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By Ted Chiou 丘昌泰
As the presidential debates were being held in Taiwan, Singapore was giving its people a NT$40 billion (US$1.3 billion) bonus, the Hong Kong government was asking itself what to do with its NT$400 billion surplus and new South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was announcing five new economic goals in the hope of initiating a 60-year period of progress.

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By Steve Lohr
In the summer of 2005, Miles Gilburne and Nina Zolt had long talks over dinner in their Washington home about what to do next. For more than six years, Gilburne, a former AOL executive, and his wife, Zolt, a former lawyer, had supported a philanthropy that used books and online tools to enhance skills of inner-city students.

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By Melvyn Krauss
Senator John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee for president, likes to say that he was a "foot soldier" in the Reagan Revolution. So was I, working out of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. But, unlike McCain, a good man and a true American hero, I don't intend to vote Republican this November. I am voting for Senator Barack Obama.

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Two years ago this week, I was at Taipei's 228 Museum preparing my radio program for Radio Taiwan International (formerly the Central Broadcasting System of China). The museum building had originally housed the Taiwan Broadcasting Company that had been set up by the Japanese, but was taken over by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) when Taiwan was "handed over" to Chiang Kai-shek's (蔣介石) Republic of China.

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