BST News Archive

• CNN (August 19, 2003): Taiwan presses ahead with multiple referendums.
• Liberty Times, 2003/7/19: American academics: Taiwanese consciousness has taken root in Taiwan (in Hanji).
• The Japan Times Op-Ed, 5/23/03: Politics Placed Before Health (Doug Bandow of Cato Institute).
• Washington Post Editorial, 5/20/03: Shutting Out Taiwan. Go to: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13104-2003May19.html.
• WHO Observership for Taiwan: Online Petition
• Liberty Times, 2003/5/10: Tan Chai-chin criticises China for interfering in Taiwan's struggle against SARS
• Chen Shui-bian editorial in Washongton Post (5/8/03): Help Taiwan Fight SARS
• Liberty Times, 2003/5/8: The Executive Branch chastises China for "putting salt on to the sore"(in Hanji)
• Taipei Times: China did not send WHO Team. Two epidemiology and virology experts from the global health body arrived on Friday, but at the invitation of Taiwan's Center for Disease Control, officials said. WHO announcement.
• Taipei Times Editorial: Boneheaded ideas om the SARS saga.
• Asia Times, 5/2/03: SARS: Taiwan's WHO bid nothing to sneeze at
• Central News Agency, Special Reports: Taiwan should join the World Health Organisation (in Hanji)
• San Jose Mercury News Letter to the Editor (Kuor-Hsin Chang): Surely it is high time for democratic Taiwan, with its open response to the SARS crisis, to enter the international community as a full member.
• Taipei Times, 4/30/03: Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper urges WHO to admit Taiwan
• Liberty Times, 4/27/03: Taiwanese literature is not monstrosity (in Hanji)
• Taiwan News, 4/19/03: U.S. Senate majority leader Bill Frist arrives in Taipei; Associated Press report
• Mobilizing for the Taiwan Name Rectification Movement Rally on May 11, 2003; Statement by Lee Teng-hui
• South News, 2/25/03: Who says it's burdensome to teach Taiwanese using Peh-oe-ji (romanization)? (in Hanji)
• Taipei Times, 4/9/03: Understanding the creation of the Taiwan Relations Act.
• Taiwan Daily, 4/5/03: The massacre of Chien-kuo High School students during 2-28 (in Hanji)
• Liberty Times, 3/16/03: Li Tenghui says Zhonghua Minguo (Republic of China) should be changed to Taioan Kok (Republic of Taiwan). (in Hanji)
• Taiffalo Chiang, 3/13/03: Will a democratic Taiwan grant language self-determination to its citizens? (in Hanji)
• Liberty Times: It is critical that the Taiwanese learn the difficult lessons of history (Tzu-yu Shih-pao she-lun: T'ai-wan jen-min pi-hsu chi-ch'u li-shih chiao-hsun) (in Hanji)
• Remembering 2-28: Understand Taiwan's past
• Remembering 228, a victim's story: Lin Tai-cheng, 74, native of Pingtung County
• Remembering 228: Yeh Te-chin, 75, native of Tamsui, Taipei County
• Taipei Times Editorial, January 28, 2003: No clear flight path to direct links
• Election Analysis: What next for election contenders?
• Election Analysis: Don't read too much into local voting.
• Election Analysis: Elections will have a 2004 effect.
• Taipei Times, 12/8/02: Elections maintain status quo.
• Taipei and Kaoshiung Mayoral and City Council Results.
• Taipei Times editorial: "With China growing stronger everyday in terms of economic, military and political prowesses, today's status quo is already different from that of a few years ago. Under the circumstances, people must take a stance over the question of independence versus unification." Taipei Times.
• CHANGING VIEWS: Most reject unification, survey says. A poll released by a Cabinet commission says more than 50 percent of the public prefers the status quo or independence. Taipei Times article.
• Taiwanese Collegian Supports Lee Ying-Yuan as Mayor of Taipei City.
  Han-language statement. English-language statement.
• Hwan C. Lin, Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte: Taiwan has overinvested in China.
• A Taipei Times analysis of the Bush-Jiang summit as it pertains to the U.S.'s official status on Taiwan: Post-Summit, the score is even.
• Taipei Times, 10/27/02: Taiwan to help APEC's poor: Lee Yuan-Tseh. Friday's address marked the first time ever that a Taiwan envoy has been invited to deliver a keynote speech at any APEC leaders' summit.
• Taipei Times, 10/27/02: 10,000 gather to call on China to make missiles away at event entitled "Festival of Peace for All -- Dismantle Missiles, Embrace Peace."
• Taipei Times Editorial, 10/26/02: Time to revise Taiwan's history books
• Taipei Times Editorial, 10/26/02: Time to revise Taiwan's history books
• Taipei Times, 10/25/02: Taiwan loses out again in APEC.SECOND-CLASS MEMBERSHIP: Once again Taiwan's representatives were barred from the foreign ministers' meeting as other members caved in to China's wishes.
• BBC, 10/9/02: Taiwan plans mass letter writing. Taiwan's Government is to launch a letter-writing campaign in an attempt to force China to get rid of hundreds of missiles pointing at the island.
• Taipei Times, 10/2/02: US law aims to enhance Taiwan ties. Legislation signed by the US president on Monday seeks to codify improved relations, though he said his country's `one China' policy remains unchanged
• Taipei Times, Cross-Strait Policies Lack Coherence (Editorial).
• Rebutting Beijing: "Taiwan Is Not Like Hong Kong, and a Good Thing Too . . . ."
• Taipei Times, September 6, 2002: Taiwan government hails Europe for its support of Taiwan.
• Taipei Times, August 4, 2002: Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian states the obvious, "there is 'one country on either side of the Strait'."
• Taipei Times, June 4, 2002: Taiwan readies for World Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Northern and Southern Taiwan Societies, June 2, 2002: Direct links must not be negotiated unequally
• Nat Bellocchi: Cross-strait action shifts to Taipei
• Holmes Liao (Taiwan News Editorial), May 29, 2002: Don't rule out PRC missile in CAL crash.
• Taipei Times, May 23, 2002: MAC Chairwoman Offers Criteria for Negotiation
• Taipei Times editorial, May 12, 2002: Taiwan is the 'motherland'>
• Taipei Times, May 12, 2002: `Taiwan' takes to the Taipei streets
• Newsweek International, May 20, 2002 issue: See Chen Run.
• Chen Lung-chu: The best present for Mother's Day
• Taipei Times, May 11, 2002: US House OKs measure to boost Taiwan's defense
• James Wang: Sovereignty resides in the people
• Washi$ Post, April 30, 2002: In Fact and in Tone, U.S. Expresses New Fondness for Taiwan

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