Taiwan may not have official diplomatic ties with the US, but this shouldn't mean that Taiwan's president, or his successor next year, should be treated with any less respect by US officials.

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`Even more unreasonable is the fact that apart from having to suffer the consequences of pollution, the residents of a polluted area are also made to pay taxes to clean it up, even as they are forced to accept polluted sources of drinking water.'
By Chen Jenn-yeu 陳振宇 andYang Yung-nane 楊永年
Recently, the legislature passed the third reading of an amendment to the Water Pollution Control Act (水污染防治法). The proposal greatly reduces the fines for water pollution by industrial animal farming facilities from between NT$60,000 and NT$600,000 to between NT$6,000 and NT$120,000.

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By Darson Chiu 邱達生
THE THIRD East Asia Summit (EAS) was held in Singapore last month. Following the example set in the previous two summits, Taiwan was again not invited.

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BY Lee Sheng-hsiung 李勝雄
The 59th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was on Monday, which was also the 28th anniversary of the Kaohsiung Incident. Taiwan has evolved from being ruled by a dictatorial regime that declared martial law and violated human rights into a democratic state that protects human rights.

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By Kenneth Arrow
Last fall, the UK issued a major government report on global climate change directed by Sir Nicholas Stern, a top-flight economist. The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change amounts to a call to action: It argues that huge future costs of global warming can be avoided by incurring relatively modest cost today.

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By Fran Blandy
Poised and alert, the South China tiger creeps along the drenched savannah -- one of the world's rarest big cats who recently produced new hope in a foreign land to save her dying species.

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By Seth Mydans
When his turn comes to stand watch, Kang Long posts himself at a window, peering into the dark streets outside the tiny apartment where his fellow migrant workers sleep 10 to a room.

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