Continuing his second day of a visit to Japan, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday met members of the Nikkakon and elaborated on his cross-strait policies, which include signing a peace treaty with China and bargaining with China over Taiwan's international space.

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By Yeh Pin-yen 葉品言
The Council of Labor Affairs recently published a report on the 10 most common causes of death among laborers. As usual, the top three were cancer, accidents and chronic liver diseases and liver cirrhosis. It's the same old stuff because in recent years there have been no big changes on the list, and the top three causes haven't changed.

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By Kuan Chung-hsiang 管中祥
According to recent reports by the Chinese-language China Times, 43 percent of youths find the term "Strawberry Generation" unacceptable. This result concurs with surveys I conducted in university lectures. Even if some students accept the label, most do so only conditionally.

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By Lin Cho-shui 林濁水
Since the 1990s, southern Taiwan has become a pan-green political stronghold. As a result, people often believe that support for Taiwanese independence is far more prevalent in the south. However, this conception is merely a stereotype.

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New regulations have begun to force cosmetics firms to test their products on artificial flesh, not animals. In Provence, specialist scientists are trying to meet the challenge
By Doreen Carvajal
he delicate hybrids thriving in the balmy climes of Provence, southern France's traditional perfume region, include sweet jasmine, May roses -- and fresh layers of artificial human skin.

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Millions of jobs and thousands of firms in the developing world are under threat because of the quick fix the WTO wants, but this battering-ram style is no solution
By Madeleine Bunting
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's commitment to Africa has been one of the most consistent themes of his political career, and as he arrives in Kampala, Uganda, at the end of this week for the Commonwealth summit, he might reasonably expect plenty of appreciation and warmth.

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