Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation

No more ‘Chinese Taipei’

Michael Scanlon

Your article about the use of “Chinese Taipei” (“Reporter’s Notebook: ‘Chinese Taipei’? Don’t You Mean ‘Taiwan?’” Nov. 14, 2010, page 3) superbly underscored and drove home with a vengeance the absolute and utter inanity of the denigrating and humiliating moniker.

This cretinous, filthy epithet absolutely must be done away with. I have difficulty finding words that are adequate in describing the risible absurdity of the label.

The core issue is that “Chinese Taipei” is an oxymoron, and the simple truth is that the term refers to absolutely no place on Earth.

Open letter to Ma Ying-jeou’s KMT government

Nat Bellocchi, Coen Blaauw, Et Al

Dear President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九):

We the undersigned, academics and writers from the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, are writing to you to express our concerns about a recent new development: the charges by your government that 17 former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials violated the National Archives Act (國家檔案法) and two other laws by “failing to return” about 36,000 documents during the DPP administration.

China detains dozens of Christian worshipers

Taiwan Tati Cultural & Educational Foundation

Beijing police arrested dozens of Christian worshipers yesterday from a “house church” — one not formally recognized by the government — when they tried to pray outdoors, a rights group said. They sang hymns and said prayers as police loaded them onto waiting buses in Beijing’s western Hai-dian District, the US-based Christian rights group China Aid said in a statement, citing witnesses.

“The Beijing authorities have again demonstrated their total disregard of their citizens’ constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right to religious freedom,” China Aid founder and president Bob Fu (傅希秋) said in the statement.

Ma Wants to be Seen as President, but He Really Does Not Want to be Responsible for Anything

Jerome F. Keating Ph.D.

Taiwan once again went through one of those questionable "Say what??" matters as regards its president. Ma Ying-jeou is the one who was "shocked" yes absolutely "shocked" when a half a million US$ got into his bank account. Of course it was his secretary's fault and Ma neither knew anything about it or even questioned it until it became public. Then he was "shocked." So what now?

Well it seems that Ma nominated Shao Yen-ling for the Council of Grand Justices. Shao has a past controversial record and has been called one of Taiwan's "dinosaur" judges. So what happened?

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