With the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly opening in New York on Tuesday, the General Committee was expected to meet yesterday to finalize the agenda and decide whether Taiwan's UN membership bid should be included as a supplementary item for discussion.

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By Jerome Keating
When you are up to your ass in alligators, the original brainchild idea to drain the swamp no longer seems so brilliant. What does this old business maxim have to do with Taiwan's vibrant democracy and the US' strategic plans for it and the world? Please follow.

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By Liao Fu-te 廖福特
Though Taiwan's participation in international organizations has been limited, it has been able to create political and economic stability.

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By Mark Landler and Ivar Ekman
Playmobil of Germany has long promoted its colorful plastic pirates, firefighters and farm animals as better-than-your-average plaything -- toys to be handed down rather than chewed up. Now it can add another selling point: They are made in Europe, not China.

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By Stephen Castle and Dan Bilefsky
Not long ago, the EU was planning to relax its monitoring of product safety, taking it away from consumer protection authorities and assigning it to a weaker surveillance system aimed at work equipment.

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When Malaysia gained its independence it was one of the world's poorest nations, but now it is in the top tier of global growth league tables along with Taiwan
By Joseph Stiglitz
Aug. 31 marked the 50th anniversary of Malaysia's Merdeka: independence after more than 400 years of colonialism. Malaysia's peaceful, non-violent struggle may not have received the attention that Mahatma Gandhi's did in India, but what Malaysia has accomplished since then is impressive -- and has much to teach the world, both about economics, and about how to construct a vibrant multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural society.

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Recently, officials confirmed to major media outlets that Chinese hackers have attacked sensitive government sites in Britain, France, Germany and the US.

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A litmus test for China is in the offing, and for all the world to see.

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