The New Taipei City District Court recently handed down sentences in an on-campus throat-slashing murder of a ninth-grade student that was committed by two schoolmates on Christmas Day last year. The male perpetrator was sentenced to nine years and the female instigator to eight years in prison. The
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) on Oct. 9 made a rebuttal to President William Lai’s (賴清德) Double Ten National Day gala speech, which was given on Oct. 5, saying that “the Republic of China [ROC] is the motherland of Taiwanese” and “every Taiwanese citizen is a Taiwanese, and
Thanking what nurtured youThe 59th Golden Bell Awards was held in Taipei on Saturday. The best leading actor award went to Wu Kang-ren (吳慷仁) for his role in the TV drama series Living (有生之年).Unfortunately, Wu did not attend the ceremony and was not able to accept the award in person. Instead, the aw
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A new age of international relations is dawning. With the West accounting for a declining share of global GDP, and the world becoming increasingly multipolar, countries are jostling to establish their positions in the emerging order. This includes both the emerging economies — represented by the rec
The war in Ukraine is going badly for the good guys. Ukraine is slowly losing on the eastern front. Its forces are plagued by a dearth of soldiers and ammunition. A summer incursion into Russia made headlines, but did not change the overall trajectory of the fighting. A deep-strike missile campaign
India’s friends and partners are clearly feeling a growing sense of disquiet right now.Relations between Canada and India reached a new low this week, when New Delhi’s ambassador to Ottawa was either recalled or expelled, depending on who you believe. That came after the Royal Canadian Mounted Polic
The first case of dengue fever in Miaoli County this year was reported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Friday last week. It was not associated with a cluster of dengue cases in New Taipei City. The cases of dengue fever in central and northern Taiwan are a warning sign, as local outbreak
President Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 years old this month, has not been highly thought of in Taiwan since his 1978 decision to derecognize Taipei as the seat of the “Republic of China.” But with a half-century’s hindsight, President Carter’s derecognition of the ROC, viewed together with his strai
The Nobel Prize in Economics this year was awarded to Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for their research into the legacies of colonialism and global inequality, especially in countries dogged by corruption and dictatorship.The economists studied
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It is easy to think of humans as existing separately from nature. However, the greatest threats to humanity come from crises affecting nature, not least climate change, biodiversity loss and rampant pollution. We cannot address any of these until we stop taking nature for granted and start investing
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar would have celebrated his death, were he alive to see it, and the world should do the same — if for very different reasons.Israel confirmed the 62-year-old’s killing through DNA tests on Thursday, after he was shot, together with two other men, in an encounter with Israeli
Indonesian President Joko Widodo left office yesterday with high approval ratings thanks to strong economic growth, but his successor Prabowo Subianto has bigger ambitions, including an eye-catching US$28 billion free meal plan for students.While the country regularly enjoys about five percent annua
Four days after Double Ten National Day, China announced a new round of military exercises around Taiwan titled “Joint Sword-2024B.” As the name implies, Monday’s exercises are a follow-up to its “Joint Sword-2024A” exercises in May, which were ostensibly a response to the content of President Willi
Indonesia will officially have a new president today with the inauguration of Prabowo Subianto. Prabowo, who has experience studying abroad, had a bright military career, and a controversial connection to the civil unrest and revolutionary protests in 1998 which led to his dismissal from military se
China on Monday at 5am implemented, unannounced, its Joint Sword-2024B military exercises. At 6pm, it declared the exercises concluded. Beijing said the exercises were a legitimate and necessary action to defend its sovereignty and unity. However, the exercises’ proximity to Taiwan, and the presence
Kaohsiung’s concert policyOn Oct. 5, the Taipei City Government hosted a Double Ten National Day gala at the Taipei Dome. Democratic Progressive Party Taipei City Councilor Yen Juo-fang (顏若芳) said that the first “non-sports event” at the venue exposed four major flaws: too many empty seats, an echo,
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