TIMELINE: The Presidential Office said the ‘Wall Street Journal’ had misquoted President Ma Ying-jeou in a Nov. 25 interview the business paper published online on Monday
By Ko Shu-ling and Jenny W. Hsu
It will take “decades” for Taiwan and China to consider unification as the conditions are not currently ripe, the Presidential Office said yesterday, dismissing a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report that quoted President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) as saying that it will happen “in the next decade.”

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The UN’s climate conference was deadlocked yesterday on key issues, with a new draft text lacking any figures on targets for limiting global warming, as world leaders raised the pressure for results.

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By Vincent Y. Chao
Environmental officials defended Taiwan’s record yesterday after the nation was ranked behind Japan and South Korea in an influential climate change performance report that evaluates emissions trends, levels and climate policy.

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The Copenhagen climate talks will generate more carbon emissions than any previous climate conference, equivalent to the annual output of over half a million Ethiopians, figures commissioned by Denmark show.

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BEIJING WARNING: The Foreign Ministry said such appeals amounted to interference in China’s judiciary and outsiders had no right to do so
The EU and the US called on China on Monday to release a prominent pro-democracy writer and rights activist who faces trial on charges of subversion.

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