President Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) comment that 70 percent to 80 percent of members of the judiciary favor the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has triggered a debate between the pan-blue and pan-green camps. It has escalated into a question of whether judges should belong to political parties.

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By Richard Halloran
By coincidence, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Admiral Timothy Keating, commander of US forces in Asia and the Pacific, were in India at the same time last month and for the same reason: to entice India into closer security relations with their respective nations.

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By Lin Cho-shui 林濁水
Dennis Wilder, the senior director of East Asian Affairs for the US National Security Council, recently stated that "Taiwan, or the Republic of China [ROC], is not at this point a state."

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By Mei-chin van der Wees
The US has traditionally been perceived as a friend of Taiwan. The US model of democracy inspired Taiwan's democratization movement in the Martial Law era, which ended only 15 years ago.

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In the next decade 72 percent of air traffic controllers become eligible to retire, while recent contract revisions cut starting pay for new recruits by 30 percent
By Michael Sniffen
A bitter labor dispute has broken out between some of the people most responsible for safety in the skies. US air traffic controllers and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that employs them cannot agree whether enough qualified people are guiding air traffic or how safe the air space is today.

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By Lisa Belkin
Early this summer, Joshua Pelton decided that he was meant to live in Orlando, Florida. So he quit his sales job in Detroit, packed his car with all the belongings that fit, put the rest in storage, and drove southeast daydreaming about sundrenched winters and packed nightclubs.

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