It's about time for someone within the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) inner circle to do what Spain's King Juan Carlos did to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and tell President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) to shut up.

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This week the Asian Baseball Championship gets under way, and Asia's three leading teams -- Taiwan, Japan and South Korea -- are fighting to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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By Liu Kuan-teh 劉冠德
BEFORE HIS TRIP to Japan, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) unveiled his foreign policy white paper and suggested using a so-called "modus vivendi" to replace the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government's "inflammatory diplomacy."

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By Chen Chao-chien 陳朝建
President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) are fighting over how referendum ballots are to be issued in the legislative elections. There is, however, no need to discuss whether a one-step procedure is better or worse than a two-step procedure; all this talk about guaranteeing voter privacy and beneficial electoral procedures is a pretext.

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Elite school education has a real role to play
By Tsai Ping-kun 蔡炳坤
Newspapers have reported results from a major educational study that found students who rank in the top 10 percent of the Basic Competence Test for junior high school and who entered high school in the same region perform better on the General Scholastic Ability Test for college matriculation than those who attend elite high schools.

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By Larry Elliott and Ashley Seager
Saving the world's poorest people from the effects of runaway climate change will require the West to cut carbon emissions by four-fifths and display the political commitment shown by the US in developing the atomic bomb or putting a man on the moon, the UN said on Tuesday.

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By Larry Elliott
The human rights of the world's poorest people will be violated unless Britain and other developed countries accept the need for drastic and immediate steps to prevent global warming from triggering dangerous climate change, the UN warned on Tuesday.

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By Sally Healy
As tens of thousands more frightened and exhausted people fled the terrors of Mogadishu last week, a Somali community leader condemned the international community "for watching the cruelty in Somalia like a film and not bothering to help."

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