By John Pilger / The New InternationalistDec 5, 2016
A major, underreported U.S. military buildup for the purpose of confronting China -- a campaign that involves nuclear weapons -- is underway in Asia and the Pacific. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigSep 30, 2014
China may be said to confront four current categories of challenge, with a possible return to horrors past. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 23, 2014
Research demonstrates that dogs, cats and others release the same hormone that humans do when they're in love; a blond man once convinced British intellectuals he was Asian and had been kidnapped from Taiwan; to deal with the climate crisis, we have to change our way of thinking. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigFeb 11, 2014
The China that has its capital in Beijing has been at odds with the China that has its capital in Taipei since Mao Zedong and his Communist army chased the nationalist Kuomintang across the Taiwan Strait in 1949. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigFeb 11, 2014
A significant part of the population of Africa and Asia at present has no access to electricity, and in some countries those deprived amount to as much as 80 percent of the population. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 15, 2013
Sources in Taiwan say that a previously unseen variant of avian influenza infected a 20-year-old woman in that country in the first recorded case of an H6N1 virus infecting and causing disease in a human. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 28, 2013
Scientists have discovered why only a small percentage of babies contract HIV when breastfed by mothers who have been infected with the virus; Taiwan's new police uniforms are extremely frightening; and David Petraeus is using his new position in academia to promote profiteering health care and fracking industries. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 17, 2013
Two people are dead after part of the concrete roof of a factory that manufactures Asics shoes in Cambodia collapsed on workers, officials say. Police report at least six people were injured. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Justin Elliott, ProPublicaMay 12, 2012
The congressman who last year took a $22,000 four-day trip to Taiwan organized by lobbyists said Friday that he will personally reimburse the university that paid for the trip. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Justin Elliott, ProPublicaMay 11, 2012
Though rules laid down by the House Ethics Committee expressly forbid participation in lobbyist-organized trips, Rep. Bill Owens and his wife took a four-day tour of Taiwan late last year that was arranged by lobbyists with ex-New York Sen. Al D’Amato's firm, Park Strategies. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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