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    EDITORIAL: Forgetting what 228 is really about

    "I have tried to keep the memory alive. I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty ... not to remember would turn us into accomplices of the killers, to remember would turn anyone into a friend of the victims."

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    Making challenges opportunities

    INCREASING OIL PRICES are both an advantage and disadvantage to the world.

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    Increasing the budget is not enough

    By Tseng Dau-hsiong 曾道雄
    IN THE FIRST televised presidential debate on Feb. 24, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidates talked about allotting more money to arts and culture -- one candidate talked about raising the budget for arts and culture to 4 percent of the government budget, while the other wanted to raise it to 5 percent.

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    Land rights the key to Aborigines' fortunes

    In the first televised presidential debate, Democratic Progressive Party candidate Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) and his Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) counterpart Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) were politically correct in their promotion of Aboriginal culture and education issues.

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    Back from the dead

    The first time Jose Freeman heard his tribe's lost language through the crackle of a 70-year-old recording, he cried.

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    Kenya's army: the last defense before the abyss

    By Julian Borger
    Britain said on Tuesday that the Kenyan army is now "by far the best option" to stop a sectarian bloodbath as peace talks in Nairobi between the government and opposition were suspended.

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    A force not immune to ethnic tension

    By Xan Rice
    Kenya's military has an excellent reputation at home and abroad. Apart from a brief, failed coup attempt by air force officers against former president Daniel arap Moi in 1982, it has kept out of politics. [ FULL STORY ]


    Partnerless in Pakistan: Bush administration losing the plot

    By Arif Rafiq
    US President George W. Bush rightly called Pakistan's recent national and provincial elections "a victory for [its] people."

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