A ceramic frog dedicated to the Haiku poet Basho, at Basho Inari Shrine in Tokyo. Photo: Flickr user Maynard Hsin-Yin Lee, a former associate...
Video | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
SINGAPORE -- In Taipei and Hong Kong, horrid crimes are no longer left for tabloid readers to imagine....
AP | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
(AP) BEIJING President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised a determined, joint effort to tackle climate change, nuclear disarmament ...
Taiwan Cows | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
PENGHU, Taiwan -- Each day, ferries ply the waters between the 90 small islands and islets of Taiwan's Penghu archipelago. They bring a cargo of human...
inhabitat.com | Bridgette Meinhold | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Taipei 101, famous for being one of the world's tallest buildings, is set to get some major eco-upgrades in an effort to save money, reduce its impact...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home
A Taiwanese gamer playing Happy Farm on Facebook. Photo: Flickr user copycatko Hsin-Yin Lee, a former associate producer at Worldfocus, is a ...
AP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
SEATTLE — Worldwide shipments of personal computers edged back up in the third quarter, according to industry researchers, a promising sign for the industry as it heads into the holiday shopping season.
Last year's holiday quarter was the worst in about six years, and PC shipments declined in the first half of 2009 as the recession inhibited spending by consumers and businesses.
On Wednesday, however, analysts at IDC said PC shipments from July through September rose 2.3 percent from the same period of last year, as consumers kept buying the low-cost laptops and tiny netbooks that have been the bright spot in the industry.
The Framingham, Mass.-based research group said it had expected shipments to fall nearly 3 percent. A robust back-to-school shopping season and ahead-of-schedule government spending in China and Taiwan helped drive the surprise results.
IDC said such growth just ahead of the Oct. 22 launch of Microsoft Corp.'s new PC operating system, Windows 7, bodes well for the fourth quarter and next year. The researchers expect to see more businesses replacing aging PCs in the middle of next year.
GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 10.11.2009 | Home
About 2000 US troops are helping in relief operation in the Philippines trying to get supplies to mountain cities cut of from aid by over 40 landslide...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WEBER | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
LOS ANGELES — Danny Pang, an Orange County financier accused by federal regulators of defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollar...
Washington Post | Les Carpenter | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
For years the NFL, which kicks off its regular season in full on Sunday, has been the most lucrative sports league in the world, generating an estimat...
AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A Taiwan court sentenced former President Chen Shui-bian to life in prison after convicting him on graft charges Friday, a spec...
AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
SHIAO LIN, Taiwan — The Dalai Lama exhorted Taiwan on Monday to safeguard its democracy, interspersing prayers for the victims of Typhoon Morako...
AP | ANNIE HUANG | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's leader said Thursday he has agreed to let the Dalai Lama visit the island to comfort survivors of a devastating typhoo...
AP | DAVID WIVELL | Posted 09.20.2009 | World
BEIJING — A top Chinese general criticized the U.S. on Thursday for selling arms to Taiwan and accused Washington of only being cooperative when...
nytimes.com | MARK McDONALD | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
HONG KONG -- The defense minister and the head of the cabinet in Taiwan reportedly offered to resign Wednesday as the government continued to reel und...
AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
CISHAN, Taiwan — Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou sharply raised the expected death toll from Typhoon Morakot on Friday to more than 500, amid m...
AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 09.13.2009 | World
SINFA, Taiwan — Barefoot and helmeted, the frightened survivors of deadly Typhoon Morakot dangled high over jagged rocks and a raging river Thur...
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 09.12.2009 | Home
Army sends in 4,000 more troops as build-up of water poses new threat to villages....
AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
CISHAN, Taiwan — Taiwan's military airlifted survivors from remote mountain villages devastated by mudslides triggered by last weekend's typhoon...
AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
CISHAN, Taiwan — Military helicopters ferried stricken villagers to safety Tuesday from remote Taiwanese communities hit by Typhoon Morakot that...
AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A mudslide touched off by a deadly typhoon buried a remote mountain village in Taiwan, leaving at least 400 people unaccounted ...
Associated Press | ANNIE HUANG | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A typhoon-spawned mudslide engulfed a mountain village in southern Taiwan, burying up to 600 people, a police official and a rescued...
Dan Persons | Posted 08.29.2009 | Entertainment
Treut took a pause in her globe-hopping to speak to us about lesbian love stories, Taiwanese ghosts, and the life of the world filmmaker.
AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Taiwanese employer of a young Chinese man who killed himself after being interrogated over a missing iPhone prototype has a...
AP | DEBBY WU | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Taiwanese and Chinese presidents swapped messages Monday, the first such exchange since the two sides split amid civil war ...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 12.02.2009 | Home