We will take a firm stance. Taiwan's identity should be given priority over conciliation in dealing with China over the next two years and a half. That is the message from President Chen.

These stories are important to me, not because they happen to be about South Asians, but because they’re circling around a certain strain of loneliness that goes deeper than cultural dissonance, that has to do with the yearning to connect with someone else, or with some unreachable vision of home.

The biggest saltwater tide this year has now reached the province and it will last for eight days until January 3 next year.

We will leave it as a landmark building in our city.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

Jerusalem and the Temple Mount are the cornerstones of Jewish identity. No Israeli prime minister will ever be able to sign a document that gives up sovereignty of the Temple Mount to the Palestinians,