History
Published by the Liberty Times Group,the Taipei Times launched its first edition on 15 June 1999. [3] It was the third English-language newspaper founded in Taiwan. [4] [1] President Lee Teng-hui attended its launch ceremony. [1] The other two English-language media before the Taipei Times were Taiwan News and TheChina Post. [5]
In a column celebrating the paper's fifth anniversary,then-Taipei Times associate editor Laurence Eyton wrote that much of the initial planning of the paper was concluded over pints of Carlsberg in a pub with Anthony Lawrence,the paper's first managing editor. [6] In 2002,the daily circulation stood at 280,000 copies. [7]
By 2017,the Taipei Times had become the last daily print newspaper in Taiwan,after competitors Taiwan News and China Post switched to digital-only formats. [7]
The Taipei Times has been involved in several controversies over the years,including an argument with a member of the United States House of Representatives,a push for nuclear weapons under President Chen Shui-bian,and misleading readers about the origin of a letter to The Wall Street Journal . [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
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