Taiwan is stepping up security to ensure the safety of participants after the opening ceremony of the 2017 Summer Universiade was disrupted by protesters. President Tsai Ing-wen ordered stricter law e ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-21
Taiwan's economy minister was forced to step down after a massive blackout hit the island on Tuesday, causing deaths and chaos, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. Minister of Economic Affairs Lee ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-16
China loves peace but will never compromise on defending its sovereignty, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday while marking 90 years since the founding of the People's Liberation Army, Reuters report ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-01
The recent state visit to Taiwan by President Horacio Cartes of Paraguay was indeed a timely and much-needed shot in the arm for President Tsai Ing-wen, who had suffered a major diplomatic setback whe ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-28
... ars involving speakers. The fair is a symbol of the soft power of Hong Kong, a platform for a rich variety of books that is not available anywhere else in the Chinese world. In the mainland, censorshi ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-25
Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, a prominent dissident since the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, died on Thursday after being denied permission to leave the country for tre ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-13
Chinese Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo is in critical condition and his breathing is failing, the hospital treating him said on Wednesday. "The patient is in a critically ill condition ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-13
... island, using its formal name the Republic of China. The move itself is not surprising, since Panama had sought ties with China almost a decade ago but was rebuffed because Beijing at the time had an ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-19
... with Beijing instead. In its statement, the Panama government said there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is “an inalienable part of Chinese territory”, and that “the government of the Peopl ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-15
Panama has severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan and established ties with China, marking another victory for Beijing in its efforts to isolate Taipei. Officials from China and Panama signed a join ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-14
The Hong Kong government has, not for the first time, chosen to stand on the wrong side of history by trying to overturn a rather modest court ruling that would enhance the rights of lesbian, gay, bi- ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-26
A landmark ruling by Taiwan’s top court could see the island become the first in Asia to allow same-sex marriage. The decision has left many local people furious, the Hong Kong Economic Journal report ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-25
As the old saying goes, there are no permanent enemies or friends in politics. Now, this is exactly what the Kuomintang (KMT) in Taiwan is discovering at the moment. Ever since its catastrophic defeat ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-24
China should not politicize Taiwan’s participation in a UN health meeting, Taiwan health activists said, and China's president should "do the right thing" and let the island attend for the benefit of ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-09
It has been almost a year since Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen took office. And under her rule, cross-strait relations have hit rock-bottom, not least because of her evasive and equivocal stance on ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-08
In a few weeks, Tsai Ing-wen will mark her first anniversary as president of Taiwan. However, her celebration is likely to be subdued since she is facing intractable problems with the world’s two most ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-24
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je was among those assaulted by protesters outside the parliament on Wednesday. The violent protest was triggered by President Tsai Ing-wen’s plan to reform Taiwan’s hemorrhaging p ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-21
Taiwan plans to build eight submarines to bolster its current fleet of four aging foreign-built vessels, a senior Taiwanese navy official said on Wednesday. "In our indigenous submarine project, we ho ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-05
Taiwan has unveiled a NT$882.4 billion (US$29 billion) stimulus package to boost its export-driven economy in the face of uncertainty from its two largest trading partners, the United States and China ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-24
