US, Japan seem fine with island row
洪健昭 ( 2013年4月1日 09:20 )

Tokyo and Washington seem to want nothing better than to prolong the current sovereignty row between Japan and China, which may touch off an accidental military skirmish off the disputed is ...

Time has come for absentee voting
洪健昭 ( 2013年3月26日 10:10 )

An absentee ballot is a vote cast by an eligible voter who is unable or unwilling to visit their designated polling station. Numerous methods have been devised to facilitate absentee voting ...

The reason for the nuclear question
洪健昭 ( 2013年3月26日 10:10 )

Last Thursday, Kuomintang caucus whip Lai Shyh-bao unveiled the question the ruling party wants to ask in its proposed referendum on Taiwan's Fourth Nuclear Power Plant at Gongliao, officia ...

A Remember March in March
洪健昭 ( 2013年3月26日 10:10 )

Unlike an election year, this year saw no large-scale noisy demonstrations to mark Peace Memorial Day, the day to remember the Feb. 28 Incident of 1947. President Ma Ying-jeou went to Yilan ...

Nuke vote may highlight reality
洪健昭 ( 2013年3月26日 10:10 )

Premier Jiang Yi-hua is reported to have suggested he would have the future of Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant fully and publicly discussed and then seek a referendum to decide whether ...

America_s anger not so much fact as likely DPP_ ...
洪健昭 ( 2013年2月26日 09:16 )

Officials of the American Institute in Taiwan are said to have met behind closed doors with a number of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers early last week to express Washington's ...

Aiming for clarity on monopolization
洪健昭 ( 2013年2月6日 16:32 )

Confucius had an account of his gradual progress and attainments kept in the Analects, which according to James Legge's translation runs in part: “At fifteen, I had my mind bent on le ...

Nuke 4 referendum and local elections
洪健昭 ( 2013年1月28日 15:59 )

Su Tseng-chang, chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, wants a referendum on Taiwan's Fourth Nuclear Power Plant at Gongliao in New Taipei City, popularly known as Nuke 4. The opposi ...

Sometimes wars break out by accident
洪健昭 ( 2013年1月22日 16:27 )

No one knows for sure who fired a shot near the Marco Polo Bridge in suburban Beijing on the night of July 7, 1937. But that shot started an undeclared war between China and Japan, which be ...

Another Accountgate in the making
洪健昭 ( 2013年1月22日 16:27 )

Public prosecutors in Changhua indicted 22 professors at some of Taiwan's prestigious universities earlier this month for corruption charging them with using fake receipts to claim reimburs ...

Shinzo Abe goes to Washington
洪健昭 ( 2013年1月7日 18:46 )

So Mr. Abe is all set to go to Washington. The second-time Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, will be seeing President Barack Obama in search of stronger security ties between the two cou ...

Ma needs to step up, take the helm
洪健昭 ( 2013年1月7日 18:45 )

Shih Ming-teh, a former chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), marched on the Presidential Plaza at the head of more than 100,000 Redshirts and all of them sat down on Ketagala ...

Can foreign monks chant sutras better?
洪健昭 ( 2012年12月28日 12:11 )

Buddhism came to China from India, and one old Chinese saying is: “Monks from abroad chant sutras better.” This might have been true shortly after Buddhism was introduced and wh ...

Ma stands tall on Human Rights Day
洪健昭 ( 2012年12月18日 16:10 )

After London-based The Economist called President Ma Ying-jeou a bumbler last month, he bristled and tried to explain away his failure to get Taiwan's house in order, but on Human Rights Da ...