These are desperate days for Taiwan's domestic airlines.

The forthcoming 2008 Taiwan elections.

Taiwan is developing its surface-to-surface missile programme.

Taiwan has been out on a limb, diplomatically, for the past 35 years but that hasn't stopped its capital Taipei from thriving.

The tit-for-tat competition between rivals China and Taiwan for international allies is being played out these days in the streets of San José, Santo Domingo and Managua.

A traditional Taiwanese stone house has been transformed by local practice Xrange.