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The US is complicit in the deaths of thousands of Africans because it continues to ignore the problem of AIDS. But then again, sub-Saharan Africans do not buy many US products
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
In a shocking book of last year entitled Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis described the British Empire's attitude to famines in India and elsewhere. When monsoons failed, millions of Indians faced imminent death. Food could have been transported by rail within British India to save many starving people, but the British believed in a hands-off, laissez faire policy. Starvation was part of nature.

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By Huang Tien-lin 黃天麟
Taiwan is consumed by direct links fever, as pro-China business leaders and quite a few lawmakers are rushing to China while spewing endless nonsense on the subject. It is disturbing that much of their talk is obviously aimed at misleading the public and pressuring the government.

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By Paul Lin 林保華
At APEC's Fifth Ministerial Meeting of Telecommunications and Information Industries in Shanghai last month, China's Minister of Information Industry Wu Jichuan (吳基傳) said that APEC is a meeting attended by economies, not by governments, and rejected Taiwan's request to hold talks. Wu seemed to understand clearly that Taiwan's representative, Vice Minister of Trans-portation and Communications Tsai Duei (蔡堆), is on an equal footing with him, so he refused to conduct talks with Tsai to avoid admitting that Taiwan is an independent country.

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Links wouldn't stop crashes

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