There is a saying that has long circulated in circles like Washington that "Chinese are too busy making money to worry about democracy."

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By Cao Changqing 曹長青
THE RESULT OF the legislative elections was difficult for everyone in the pan-green camp. Questions abound on why it happened and what the green camp should do next. Pro-pan-blue media have given two explanations for the results: It was a vote of no confidence in President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), and it was the result of the deep-greens taking the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) hostage.

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TWO PUBLIC EVENTS, one in Taiwan and the other in China, have brought some much-needed clarity to the often murky and sometimes tense confrontation across the Taiwan Strait.

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The anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination is fast approaching, raising concern that Barack Obama may be at risk of suffering a similar fate
By Jim Dwyer
Jesse Epps was to be in New York yesterday afternoon to speak about the future, carrying a credential from history.

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The setting of a limit on how much global temperatures are allowed to increase is an inherently political process
By Bjorn Lomborg
The UN-led climate change conference in Bali will be remembered less for the "road map" that it eventually created than for a messy collision between the US and much of the rest of the world that kept onlookers transfixed. Environmental campaigners vilified the US for resisting EU pressure to pre-commit to specific temperature targets -- namely, that global warming should be limited to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures. [ FULL STORY ]

The closure of factories and mines has led to a drastic reduction in the quality of life for blue-collar workers and their\n families in the Midwestern US state
After 30 years at a factory making truck parts, Jeffrey Evans was earning US$14.55 an hour in what he called "one of the better-paying jobs in the area."

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The resounding defeat of the indendependence-leaning ruling party in the recent legislative elections must have been profoundly depressing to those who hoped for self-determination for Taiwan.

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As a Canadian who lived in Taiwan for three years, I feel compelled to speak about last Saturday's elections.

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If the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has a conscience, it should feel ashamed of benefiting a great deal from the recent legislative elections.

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