President-elect Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) faces a tough challenge: How to boost the economy by delivering on his campaign promises.

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By Bruce Jacobs 家博
Chinese Nationalist Party presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) landslide victory confirms Taiwan's democracy is thriving. Many citizens who voted for President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) in 2000 and 2004 blamed Chen and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for the perceived failures of the past eight years. Thus, they quite rationally decided to vote for Ma. In many ways, this voter dissatisfaction with the DPP government continues the trends shown in the legislative election two months ago.

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By Richard Halloran
Despite strenuous Chinese efforts to stifle the flow of information out of Tibet on the uprising there, the stream of dispatches continues and has begun to confront Chinese leaders with a dilemma: What do they do about the Olympics scheduled to open in Beijing on Aug. 8?

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By Liu Kuan-teh 劉冠德
Voters have decided to embrace a unified government and elected Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to be the next president. With a new mandate, it is Ma's responsibility to tackle the constraints facing him.

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An Indian-educated Tibetan living in Beijing says policies that favor Chinese over Tibetans have fueled discontent and despair in his homeland
By Lynne O'Donnell
As a Tibetan living in China, even with a Chinese girlfriend, 28-year-old Abon feels trapped and claustrophobic, as every attempt to try and improve his life is blocked by the authorities.

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'Experts' long ago predicted the demise of radio, railroads and computer mainframes but these technologies are still with us because they have evolved
By Steve Lohr
In 1991, Stewart Alsop, the editor of InfoWorld and a thoughtful observer of industry trends, predicted that the last mainframe computer would be unplugged by 1996.

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