The legislature revised the Statute Governing Duties of the Police (警察勤務條例) last week, removing the inspection of households from the responsibilities of the police force. This is a highly meaningful move which demonstrates the increasing respect for human rights and democratization in this country.

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By Hugo Tseng 曾泰元
The junior high school Basic Competency Test (BCT) percentile ranks have been announced and for the English section the distribution of results continues a double-peak pattern.

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Chemical additives have once again been linked to hyperactivity in children and a new study says they could damage cell DNA
By Rosalind Ryan
You would think we'd all be pretty well-versed in the dangers of food additives by now. However, the British Nutrition Foundation, says most of us lack a "sufficient understanding" and has called for better education.

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Some of the world's most famous guitar makers have joined in an unlikely alliance to conserve the distinctive wood required for high-quality guitars
By Glenn Rifkin
Christian Martin IV is the sixth generation to run his family's renowned guitar-making business, C.F. Martin & Co. But he is surely the first to worry about the availability of the distinctive woods needed to build Martin guitars, the choice of musicians like Sting, Paul Simon and Jimmy Buffett.

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Rand Corp recently published a book titled Entering the Dragon's Lair: Chinese Anti-access Strategies and their Implications for the United States. In the book, the US think tank listed the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) 10 tactical principles for defeating a technologically superior adversary: "Avoiding direct confrontation, exploiting US vulnerabilities decisively, seizing the initiative early, achieving victory through surprise, key-point strikes, paralyzing first and annihilating later, achieving information superiority, raising the cost of conflict, frustrating the adversary's strategic intention, undermining its resolve and determination and preventing it fighting the type of war it wants to fight."

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The recent irrational behavior displayed by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) members protesting the name change of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall to National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall was truly appalling. (KMT's name change fight opens rift, May 28, page 2). It was more like a fight among rogue people.

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Both China's military threats and Beijing's relentless efforts to compress Taiwan's international breathing room pale in comparison to the KMT's shenanigans, especially its fraternization with Beijing to pursue unification in the last couple of years. All these efforts have in turn stoked the steep rise the Taiwanese people's longing for an independent Taiwanese state.

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I am a Taiwanese girl currently on an exchange visit in Lyon, France. I attempted to visit the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva on Tuesday and was unfortunately denied entrance to the building, which, I believe, is normally open to all.

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