To keep up the momentum following their victory in last Saturday's local government elections, pan-blue legislators yesterday resumed pressing the government to relax its China policy. Although the Democratic Progressive Party suffered an unprecedented defeat, it must not bow to political pressure, but must continue to uphold Taiwan's interests and maintain consistency in the country's China policy.

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By Zhang Jun 張軍
China's explosive economic growth hinges on the rest of the world, radically changing the global production chain and challenging the global trading system.

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By Ku Er-Teh 顧爾德
Back in 1996, the media reported on a 2,500-table campaign dinner sponsored by a steel magnate from southern Taiwan for former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝). An event of this scale had never been seen before.

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By Chin Heng-wei 金恆煒
The PAN-green camp's supporters gave the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) a reprimand through its serious defeat in the Dec. 3 local government elections.

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While the US has been at it for years, are UK parents ready to use satellite technology to keep tabs on their children?
By Lucy Atkins
This week a firm called Teddyfone launched a teddy-bear- shaped mobile phone aimed at four-to-eight-year-olds, just in time for Christmas.

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By Richard Halloran
The US has begun to restore security relations with deeply troubled Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, which sits alongside the vital shipping lanes through the South China Sea in Southeast Asia.

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By Olivier Blanchard and Francesco Giavazzi
It is now clear that the European Central Bank (ECB) views higher interest rates as the right response to rising oil prices. As a result, the ECB risks painting itself into a corner, for the logic behind last week's interest-rate hike implies that more increases will follow -- a series of policy mistakes that will cost the Eurozone economies heavily.

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