Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator John Chiang's (蔣孝嚴) statement on Monday that he would advise KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) against spending large amounts of money on diplomacy if elected president was very revealing for a number of reasons.

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By Weber Lai 賴祥蔚
When the Government Information Office announced its intention to launch an international, English-language TV channel next year, it created a minor controversy.

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By Leif-eric Easley 李雷夫
The rescheduling of the North-South Korea summit to October allows time to consider how inter-Korean talks, Six-Party Talks and possible four-party peace talks can work in concert for stability and development on the Korean Peninsula. At this juncture, it is most important for South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the US to realize that the five parties should not sacrifice trust among them for short-term gains with North Korea.

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From the earliest days of the Web, the expectation was that users would be able to pay a penny for a bit of content
By Dan Mitchell
The idea of micropayments -- charging Web users tiny amounts of money for single pieces of online content -- was essentially put to sleep toward the end of the dot-com boom.

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By Randi Rossmann
All Mike Berkowitz says he wants is an attractive, undemanding young woman to marry and help him start a family.

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By Ben Stein
Following are a few highly preliminary observations about the recent turmoil in the financial markets:

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Your report that? "US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said that the bid to enter the world body under the name `Taiwan' would be a move to change the `status quo'" ("Referendum a mistake, US official says", Aug. 29, page 1] sent me to the CIA World Factbook Web site (www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/), which closely reflects the political nuances of US international nomenclature. There I found Taiwan, out of the alphabetical order of countries, second from the bottom of the list.

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The story about declining standards of English ("Taiwan behind in English proficiency, paper reports," Aug. 22, page 2) appears to provide ammunition for those who believe that English language proficiency in Taiwan is low.

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