Oh Beautiful girls (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Name : Cheung A Mei Mandarin Name : Zhang, Hui Mei (Huimei) Other Name : Cheung Wai-Mui Origin: Taidong, Taiwan Date of Birth : August 9th 1972 Place of Birth : Taiwan Height : 158 cm Weight : 48 kg Chang Hui-mei (Chinese: Hanyu Pinyin: Zhāng Huìmèi; Wade-Giles: Chang Hui-mei; born August 9, 1972), popularly known as A-Mei (阿妹), is a Taiwanese pop singer. She was born...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Leading Taiwanese movie director Chu Yen-ping plans a black comedy titled "Assassinating Chen Shui-bian" about a plot to kill the island's former president, a report said Thursday.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Taipei - Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian, serving a life term for corruption, plans to release a CD to call for Taiwan's independence from China, his office said Wednesday. The single-song CD is entitled One Country on Each Side (of the Tai...
Taiwan Matters! (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The list of signatories grows by almost 20% Writer Jerome F. Keating, Ph.D. and thirty other scholars and writers from the US, Canada, Asia, Europe and Australia have penned a fifth open letter about the serious problems occurring under the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou. The letter reminds us that "a decrease of tension across the Taiwan Strait would indeed be welcome, but [...] that...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
No bullet holes or blood were found on Taiwan ex-president Chen Shui-bian in a 2004 election eve shooting, investigators have said.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Taipei - A Taiwan court Tuesday began hearing a new embezzlement case involving ex-president Chen Shui-bian, as he was facing a probe into allegations that he laundered around 40 million US dollars in Palau. The Taipei District Court held a closed-do...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Taipei - The Pacific island nation of Palau is probing suspected money laundering by Taiwan's ex-president Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan television reported Monday. Cable TV channel TVBS, in a dispatch from Palau, said Chen is suspected of routing 40 millio...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
[JURIST] The Constitutional Court of Taiwan ruled Friday that a law penalizing prostitutes and not their clients is unconstitutional because it undermines equality under the country's constitution. The Social Order and Maintenance Act will have to be amended to meet constitutional fairness requirements, but will remain in effect two years from the date of the decision. Taiwan is currently reevaluating...
War and Peace (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Taiwan’s former president Chen Shui-bian asserted that “during his tenure, he was an American agent ”. This reminded me of Benjamin Disraeli’s quote: “Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.”
China Law Prof. Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The US-Asia Law Institute at NYU Law School recently sponsored a very good discussion of this case; here's the link to the videos.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
How Taiwan and North Korea complicate the Sino-American relationship TAIWAN, as Chinese officials never tire of reminding their American counterparts, is the most important and sensitive issue in the two countries’ relationship. In the mid-1990s the two nuclear-armed states inched to the brink of war over the island. Since then Taiwan has been the pretext for a massive military build-up by China....
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Did Taiwan leave its heart in San Francisco? BANGED up for life for corruption, a sentence against which he is appealing, Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan’s president in 2000-08, faces a new investigation. This time he is up for treason, a crime that can carry the death penalty. The bizarre charge springs from his own bizarre claim: that, during his tenure, he was an American agent. The thinking derives...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
[JURIST] Taiwan's Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by former president Chen Shui-bian, who faces a life sentence on corruption charges. Chen's appeal was based on a claim that his constitutional rights were violated when judges were replaced during the proceedings against him. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), previously led by Chen, has argued that the judicial process "contained...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Taipei - Taiwan's Council of Grand Justices Friday rejected a petition by former president Chen Shui-bian charging that the corruption trial against him was unconstitutional, dealing another blow to the graft-tainted ex-leader. Chen sought a review i...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Taiwan's ex-president Chen Shui-bian, facing life in prison for graft, has vowed to battle a court's decision to keep him behind bars, his lawyer says.
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