At present PRC citizens are the only foreigners who can hold office in Taiwan. The rest of us have to give up our nationality, attain Taiwan nationality and wait 10 years before we can run for office.

Many news outlets and pollsters lump the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) in the pan-blue camp, this column included. Many TPP supporters bristle at the pan-blue designation and would prefer to be viewed ...

The Brazilian Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a failed coup after he exhausted all appeals. Bolsonaro, 70, ...

Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday officially named Su Chiao-hui (蘇巧慧) as its candidate for the New ...

People who use force against railway personnel in an illegal manner would face a maximum three-year sentence and a maximum fine of NT$300,000 (US$9,569), according to proposed amendments to the ...

Led by Republican congressman Lance Gooden, the "Taiwan Interpol Endorsement and Inclusion Act" is co-sponsored by lawmakers across party lines including Democrats Brad Sherman and Ted Lieu, and ...

Several US senators on Monday proposed a strategic subsea cables act of 2025 to spur US government engagement related to the security, installation and maintenance, and repair of undersea fiber-optic ...

Former Georgian minister of defense Tinatin Khidasheli, who heads a think tank fighting the Soviet legacy in Georgia, is a research fellow at the Taiwan Democracy Foundation. She was asked to comment ...

Speaking at the launch for this book in London last month, Anna Beth Keim described an almost 10-year process from writing to publication, which included many fruitless attempts to find a literary ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday said it has established contact with police in Abu Dhabi, capital of the UAE, in the hope of clarifying a case concerning the alleged arrest of a ...

The blaze at Wang Fuk Court is Hong Kong’s worst fire since 41 people died in a blaze in the commercial Garley Building on Nathan Road in the heart of Kowloon in November 1996. In that fire, 81 people ...

Acer Inc’s (宏碁) after-sales service subsidiary Highpoint Service Network Corp (海柏特) yesterday said it is targeting double-digit percentage growth in revenue next year on the back of strong demand for ...