Thousands of tourists, including many from Hong Kong and mainland China, were stranded on the South Korean resort of Jeju since Saturday amid blizzards and the biggest snowfall to hit the island in th ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
More than 40 volunteers braved the extremely cold weather to clean up a beach on Tung Lung Island over the weekend, Apple Daily reported. Actions for Pleasant Nature, a group composed mostly of member ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
... ected the island's next president on Jan. 16. Yip said Facebook unilaterally annulled his account on the ground that he is under 13 years of age even after he submitted a copy of his ID card as reques ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
... an Irish island where a Christian monastery was founded between the 6th and 7th century, served as a scene in the latest Star Wars movie. "They found Luke Skywalker there at last," he said. "A large ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-24
... with the island for the past six decades or so. Beijing's Taiwan affairs chief told a visiting senior US diplomat that China is resolutely opposed to any "independence action" by Taiwan. State-owned ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
... ample the island's fresh air of democracy. Many Hong Kong people – reporters, commentators, teachers, students and politicians – took the bait because it was indeed something we could not buy no matte ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
... hest. The island and the mainland have yet to fully approve the 1992 Consensus, as exactly what negotiators have agreed on remains perplexing up to today: Beijing stresses that the consensus is “both ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
... nt in the island's general elections last Saturday. Tsai’s victory has angered many mainland netizens, who accused her of seeking Taiwan's independence. However, their "invasion" encountered difficult ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... er to the island, politically and ideologically. What Hong Kong has been put through after the 1997 reunification serves as a warning to Taiwan on the prospects of its own relationship with China. On ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... me in the island’s history. It is believed that the KMT will find itself in the wilderness for years to come. While a lot of political pundits are focused on how cross-strait relations might change af ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... ts to the island city plunged 23 percent in the first 11 months of 2015 and are facing the first annual decline since 2009. The industry is already pulling back, with TAG Heuer shuttering a store ther ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... iting the island. For me, the island’s reputation as a gastronomic paradise has been badly tarnished by scandals over the past few years, starting with plasticizer found in cold drinks, followed by fa ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-20
... y, as the island's president. Why should A-Mei be faulted for singing the Taiwanese anthem when she is a Taiwanese? But the Chinese Communist Party insisted on the "One China" policy and imposed a san ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
... s for the island’s independence. One thing to note is that the votes Tsai garnered (over 6.89 million) were 10,000 times those Leung Chun-ying received when 689 members of the 1200-strong election com ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
Many Hong Kong people think Taiwan could be another Hong Kong on the assumption that the growing influence of Beijing on Taipei could gradually bring the island under Chinese rule. But after the lands ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
An existing naval facility off the Philippines' Palawan island is being quietly developed into a military base for US troops. However, while construction is continuing, there has been no confirmation ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
President-elect Tsai Ing-wen pledged to overhaul Taiwan’s flagging economy and maintain peace with mainland China, even as she called on Communist Party leaders in Beijing to respect the island’s demo ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
... th of the island and took a job there two years ago after graduating. He has a local girlfriend, and most of his friends are in Kaohsiung. Things are a lot cheaper there than in Hong Kong, and the pac ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-16
Saturday's presidential election in Taiwan, the only place in the Greater China region where we can see real democracy in action, will be the most one-sided contest in the island since Lee Teng-hui wo ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
Thousands of Hong Kong people, including politicians, media practitioners and students, are traveling to Taiwan to observe the conduct of the general elections on the island on Saturday. It's certainl ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
