The Central Election Commission (CEC) is set to announce today how ballots for elections and referendums will be handed out during next year's legislative and presidential elections.

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By Randall Schriver
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates completed a six-day visit to Asia on Friday that included stops in China, South Korea and Japan.

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By Kuo Cheng-deng 郭正典
Many parts of former United Microelectronics Corp chairman Robert Tsao's (曹興誠) proposal urging Taiwan to sign a cross-strait peace coexistence act with China seem odd.

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By Ed Pilkington
Three men, three extraordinary stories. One spent 18 years in prison in Uganda for having murdered a neighbor later found to be alive. Another survived 34 years facing execution in Japan. The third became the 100th prisoner on death row to be found innocent and freed in the US.

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By Chris Buckley
The slopes of Chenjialing Village have shuddered and groaned lately, cracking and warping homes and fields and making residents fear the banks of China's swelling Three Gorges Dam may hold deadly perils.

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Regarding Clive Ansley's letter (Letters, Nov. 11, page 8), I was also angered when I heard about the last-minute cancelation of the airing of the CBC documentary Behind the Red Wall. At the moment there is a lot of negative publicity in Canada regarding this controversial move, but in order to protect our freedom of information from the gang of thugs that is the Chinese government, we must act now while there is momentum.

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Chinese President Hu Jintao's(胡錦濤) report at the 17th Party Congress on Oct. 15 notably included attempts at applying "soft power." Hu avoided threatening language toward Taiwan, offering instead a peace agreement and expanded ties.

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