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  • Magician of the aviation industry

    One of the most successful Chinese businessmen, the co-founder and chairman of the HNA Group loves to be in the limelight, not out of vanity but because of a social responsibility in wanting to share his experiences. BLUNT. Articulate. A man with stories and of flesh and blood. These are some of the descriptions that the media and business circles have for Chen Feng. One of the most successful ...

  • Not the way to treat senior citizens

    LAST week, I went to the Muar Road Transport Department office (JPJ) to renew my road tax. Upon arrival, as customary, I went to the senior ...

  • China-US Commerce through politics

    And a groundbreaking new report, "U.S.-China Economic Relations in the Next Ten Years," underscored the deepening commercial engagement between the two Pacific powers. Indeed with President Barack Obama meeting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in California in June, it's time to overview Sino/American relations. In a high-profile presentation at the prestigious Asia Society, the ...

  • Taiwanese Filipinos Ditch your egos

    I am attempting to prove what would happen if we for once in our lifetimes forgot about who is right and wrong. How exciting would it be if we could put our valued egos down as world citizens to bring peace?The Miracle of Forgiveness Let me start out by saying that I am deeply sorry for the loss of the innocent Taiwanese civilian. I am also just as sorry for the three allegedly related beatings ...

  • Keeping the peace in Africa The challenge of budgets bureaucracy

    But AU efforts to tackle those problems -- especially the conflicts that plague the continent -- are strained by a shortage of cash, poor organization, lack of capacity and often reluctance to get involved, analysts warn. The key AU policy of intervening in the internal affairs of member states emerged in the wake of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, as the international community recoiled at its own ...


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Movie Review

The Big Hit

There are scenes in "The Big Hit" that are so awful, they simply defy description. The movie is infected with the same kind of blunderheaded idiocy and misplaced confidence that made "Last Action Hero" (1993) such a chore to sit through. Presumably, "The Big Hit" is an action-comedy, a difficult but not impossible genre to pull off. Movies of this sort require a fine balance and careful tone, and ... ...

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  • Some cracks begin to show in the cult of the technocrats

    NEW YORK -- We are living in the age of the technocrats. In business, Big Data, and the Big Brains who can parse it, rule. In government, the technocrats are on top, too. From Washington to Frankfurt to Rome, technocrats have stepped in where politicians feared to tread, rescuing economies, or at least propping them up, in the ...

  • Filipino reader says more perspective needed when media report controversy

    I write to express my concern about improving news reporting. I am a faithful reader of The China Post, and have once contributed an article to Eye on Taiwan. As a foreign Filipino student in Taiwan, the recent conflict between the two countries sparked by the unnecessary death of a simple fisherman affects me deeply. What saddens me more, however, is the way media has caused a lot infuriation ...

  • No matter the scandal lying to Congress is tough to prove

    Yet whatever political problems Lerner may have escalated for the Obama administration in the scandal over IRS scrutiny of Tea Party and other conservative groups, history suggests neither she nor any other IRS official is likely to face criminal charges related to congressional testimony. Such charges are rarely filed, and convictions are even rarer. The most high-profile recent case in point ...

  • Man sees the light while running in the night

    Thankfully, the following year, I changed location and began a second fellowship studying Chinese at National Taiwan University in Taipei. Classes were a marked change from those in Beijing, and they started at 10 a.m. This I could manage. A later start also enabled a later end of the day, and for me there was no better end than a late night on the campus of NTU. After the sun had set and the ...

  • NK provides chance that US must seize

    Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Friday with North Korean special envoy Choe Ryong-hae, who delivered a handwritten letter from Kim Jong-un. Choe said his country cherishes its decades-old friendship with China and is willing to resolve problems through the Six-Party Talks and other dialogues.The special envoy's visit has to a considerable degree alleviated the tense atmosphere on the ...

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