The indictment of eight former and incumbent legislators on Tuesday on charges of accepting bribes from the Taiwan Dental Association has once again brought the murky goings on of the political world into the spotlight.

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By Song Yann-huei 宋燕輝
THE CROSSING OF the US aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk battle group through the Taiwan Strait last year, after being denied a port call in Hong Kong, drew intense attention to the region.

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By Jerome Keating
DESPITE WHAT THE average observer may think, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is not monolithic. Contrasting viewpoints abound and power struggles continue beneath the surface. However, like the Republican Party in the US, the KMT manages to hide its conflicts, power struggles and dirty laundry much better than its political counterpart. That being said, conflicts are alive and well and will remain long after celebrations of the KMT's sweep in the recent legislative elections are over.

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By Li Kuan-long 李坤隆
FOLLOWING THE LEGISLATIVE elections, many people seem to think that the presidential election in March is already decided. Yet the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) seems to be returning from the dead, while the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) acts as if nothing has happened.

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Who's black and female and how do they vote? These questions have taken on greater importance ahead of this Tuesday's primaries
By Sam Roberts
In the Democratic presidential primary next Tuesday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to have an advantage in New York City: Among enrolled Democrats, women outnumber men by about half a million, or 50 percent.

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By Bill Schneider
The US now has two frontrunners going into Super Tuesday next week, the day 23 states hold primaries and caucuses: Senator Hillary Clinton for the Democrats and Senator John McCain for the Republicans.

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By Joschka Fischer
Deeply frustrated by the Bush administration's policies, many people and governments in Europe hope for a fundamental change in US foreign policy after the upcoming presidential election. But it would take a medium-sized political miracle for these hopes not to be disappointed, and such a miracle will not happen -- whoever is elected.

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