A mere two weeks into the new legislative session, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus has already given the public and its Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Non-Partisan Solidarity Union (NPSU) counterparts a taste of its two-thirds majority in the Legislative Yuan.

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By Hsu Yu-fang 許又方
I often hear TV news broadcasters use the word "isolationism" when criticizing the government's China policies. A closer look at the local TV news stations, however, indicates that it is the local media themselves that are suffering from isolationism.

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By Chen Meng-mei 陳孟玫
Chinese Nationalist Party presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) announced that he wants a million Chinese tourists a year to visit Taiwan, a figure which he wants to eventually see swell to 3 million. This prompted me to do some research into these figures.

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More developed and less developed countries are taking opposite sides on issues like carbon dioxide reduction. Whatever the result, it's sure to mean one thing: delays
By Ben Nimmo
With the ink barely dry on plans by the European Commission for fighting climate change, members of the EU have already started a game of tug-of-war to pull the legal proposals in their favor.

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By Patricia Cohen
The exotically shaped creatures that began to sprout silently all over the cozy lecture hall were soon spilling onto empty chairs and into women's laps and shopping bags. When fully grown, these curiously animate forms will find a home as part of a mammoth version of the Great Barrier Reef. But at the moment they were emerging at a remarkable pace from the rapidly flicking crochet hooks wielded by members of the audience.

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By J. Bradford DeLong
Harvard professor Dani Rodrik -- perhaps the finest political economist of my generation -- recently said on his blog that a colleague has been declaring the past three decades "the Age of Milton Friedman."

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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) surreptitious hedge on the fate of Taiwan's sovereignty has come home to roost.

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With the nation looking forward to the imminent presidential election, we may start speculating about what new policies the future national leader can come up with to alleviate our long-lasting educational headache.

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