by Richard Sanders, Staff Writer The year 2027 has become a fixation for Washington. It’s the year that U.S. intelligence projects China will be ready and capable for an invasion of Taiwan. It could happen sooner, as evidenced by military drills in the South China Sea. Or, it could not happen at all. But President-elect Donald Trump’s victory…
MW Brother Arthur Chen by Richard Sanders, Staff Writer The Grand Lodge of China in Taipei has held the Seventieth Annual Communication conference on October 25 & 26, 2024 at Masonic Temple, Taipei, Taiwan. The Grand Master, MW Brother Arthur Chen, extended his brotherly invitation to various Grand Lodges to participate in the Annual Communication and…
In the last session of the Legislative Yuan, the compensation for the ban on logging for indigenous people was raised, and the relevant budget was doubled. However, the 114-year (2025) total budget prepared by the Executive Yuan was not included. After voting, the Kuomintang and the People’s Party supported Ciwas Ali’s proposal, and finally voted…
Liu Shyh-fang, the Taiwan’s Minister of the Interior In order to promote land conservation, protect marine resources, and promote agricultural promotion and urban-rural development, and distinguish the degree of use control according to the nature of the land, the land planning law will replace the traditional land regional planning law after the competent authorities of…
the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office In the case of the Core Pacific City (京華城), the media reported that “key flash drives were found” and “safe deposit boxes were seized”, which caused suspicions of leakage. On the 9th, the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office (TPC, 台北地檢署) investigated the case separately and successively summoned reporters from weekly magazines…
In response to the detention of Ko Wen-je , chairman of the People’s Party and former mayor of Taipei, over the Jinghua City case, Chen Binhua, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the PRC’s State Council, alleged yesterday (11th Sept.) that since Lai Ching-te came to power, he has repeatedly manipulated judicial and administrative means,…
Ko Wen-je（柯文哲）, former mayor of Taipei City and chairman of the Taiwan People’s Party, was detained with incommunicado by the Taipei District Court because of the Core Pacific City case （京華城）. The People’s Party held a rally on Jinan Road next to the Legislative Yuan this evening, to support Ko Wen-je and to shout that…
In its 2025-year budget, the ROC’s Mainland Affairs Council has significantly increased its donations to the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), from TW$184.355 million last year to TW$259.57 million, an increase of 40.80%. Hsu, Yu-Chen (許宇甄), the Kuomintang’s legislator pointed out that, it is necessary to face squarely the current deadlock between the two sides of…
According to the analysis of Taiwan’s national security Bureau (NSB) which is reported by Taiwan media, China has adopted a two-handed strategy in the context of strategic competition with Western countries led by United States and internal economic deterioration, playing the role of a peacemaker on the one hand, and aggressiveness on the other hand,…
Yang Chih-yuan (楊智淵), vice chairman of Taiwan’s National Party (台灣民族黨), was arrested by authorities in China in August 2022 and detained than two years, and it was a news that he was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of “separatism” recently. The ROC‘s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said that both the government and…