Academia Sinica

Academia Sinica, the Taiwanese research institute that pioneered the sweet pepper gene technology, agreed to issue them with a royalty-free licence.

Ugandan scientists grow GM banana as disease threatens country's staple food 2011

Lee Chia-Ying's very lively lab at Academia Sinica, where I got to observe a kid ERP experiment something I've never actually seen, though I'm in the process of planning one of my own and also test several more participants in the eye-tracking study.

Games with Words in Taiwan GamesWithWords 2010

Professor Chen Yuan-Tsong of Taiwan's Academia Sinica helped discover DNA markers that can tell if a person will develop an adverse reaction.

Thai Government Plans to Screen for HIV Drug Resistance 2010

He is here having just given a presentation on Kinmen and Matsu in the 50s and 60s for Academia Sinica etc.

Archive 2009-04-01 Michael Turton 2009

"Because of the new situation, Taiwan-China relations are quite different from 30 years ago," said Lin Cheng-yi, from Taiwan's Academia Sinica.

Archive 2009-04-01 Michael Turton 2009

An experiment about family planning attitude change (Monograph series/the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica) by Zhaonan Chen

All In The Family 2009

Imagine too that any Academia Sinica researcher could conceivably be charged with "being political" for commenting in public on an ongoing policy -- say the environmental concerns of the Suhua Highway or a new program to re-introduce Chinese history as the only history in the public schools.

Archive 2009-06-01 Michael Turton 2009

"Because of the new situation, Taiwan-China relations are quite different from 30 years ago," said Lin Cheng-yi, from Taiwan's Academia Sinica.

Taiwan Relations Act at 30 Michael Turton 2009

Imagine too that any Academia Sinica researcher could conceivably be charged with "being political" for commenting in public on an ongoing policy -- say the environmental concerns of the Suhua Highway or a new program to re-introduce Chinese history as the only history in the public schools.

"Political Neutrality" for Teachers Michael Turton 2009

In a December poll conducted by Taiwan's Academia Sinica, 50 percent of Taiwanese said the island's judicial system was biased compared with 38 percent who said it was impartial, while 59 percent said Taiwanese law did not sufficiently safeguard human rights.

Archive 2009-05-01 Michael Turton 2009