Taiwanese Entertainment Shows 台灣綜藝節目: In China, Taiwanese music and entertainment shows as well as celebrities enjoy a much higher profile and regard as compared to the local Chinese ones. In fact, the Chinese authorities had to issue a directive banning 'taiwanese-style mandarin and accent' on their local productions in 2005 as it was getting very popular for mainland Chinese hosts and tv programs to emulate and copy their more welcome Taiwanese counterparts...
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Why China's rise could be more peaceful than those of other powers : Though oceans apart, they embarked on similar careers. The first step was national unification. In Japan, the Meiji Restoration consolidated fragmented, feudal power into a technocratic and imperial state. In Germany, Bismarck fused 25 kingdoms and duchies into the Second Reich. In the U.S., the Civil War ended with the Union restored. Step two was rampant economic growth, with all three overtaking the established powers in the production of iron, steel and energy—those industries that would soon yield guns, bombs and ships. Step three: expansion and war. ... Will China go down the same blood-soaked road?
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Missile Defense Is Inadequate: Report - New Chinese anti-ship cruise missiles, submarines and fast-attack boats are "creating the capability to push US ships out of even marginally-effective missile defense range. Even if US AEGIS ships find a way to survive in an increasingly hostile anti-access environment, they face a real challenge to effectively defending Taiwan," Campbell and Gertler say.
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Taiwan Should Stop Exaggerating Its Vulnerability : despite a population less than half the size of Britain’s, an industrial and technological giant with over $130 billion of foreign exports each year. In the last few years it has grown faster than South Korea. Its investments of capital, machinery and personnel in China largely made possible China’s own technological revolution. Despite its isolation from the WHO, it has a fine national health service, only second in the world to Sweden’s according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. Politically it becomes maturer by the year. Its democracy appears to have put down deeper roots than many much older ones.
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Washington Post: A Good Leak - Presidents are authorized to declassify sensitive material, and the public benefits when they do. But the administration handled the release clumsily, exposing Mr. Bush to the hyperbolic charges of misconduct and hypocrisy that Democrats are leveling. Biff- as usual, my point is not to defend politicians but to get at the heart of what and why they do. Conspiracy theories and venom don't help. ...The material that Mr. Bush ordered declassified established, as have several subsequent investigations, that Mr. Wilson was the one guilty of twisting the truth. In fact, his report supported the conclusion that Iraq had sought uranium.
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Heated row at Indonesian Playboy : A caller to Jakarta's 68H radio said: "It's a scandal! There's no nude women in the magazine. I think we have been deceived." Another said: "It's sinful to read Playboy if there's no nudity."
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Japanese ferry runs into 'whale' : A high-speed Japanese ferry has collided with what is thought to be a whale, leaving 49 people injured - 13 in a serious condition.
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Taiwan Should Stop Exaggerating Its Vulnerability : despite a population less than half the size of Britain’s, an industrial and technological giant with over $130 billion of foreign exports each year. In the last few years it has grown faster than South Korea. Its investments of capital, machinery and personnel in China largely made possible China’s own technological revolution. Despite its isolation from the WHO, it has a fine national health service, only second in the world to Sweden’s according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. Politically it becomes maturer by the year. Its democracy appears to have put down deeper roots than many much older ones.
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Washington Post: A Good Leak - Presidents are authorized to declassify sensitive material, and the public benefits when they do. But the administration handled the release clumsily, exposing Mr. Bush to the hyperbolic charges of misconduct and hypocrisy that Democrats are leveling. Biff- as usual, my point is not to defend politicians but to get at the heart of what and why they do. Conspiracy theories and venom don't help. ...The material that Mr. Bush ordered declassified established, as have several subsequent investigations, that Mr. Wilson was the one guilty of twisting the truth. In fact, his report supported the conclusion that Iraq had sought uranium.
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Heated row at Indonesian Playboy : A caller to Jakarta's 68H radio said: "It's a scandal! There's no nude women in the magazine. I think we have been deceived." Another said: "It's sinful to read Playboy if there's no nudity."
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Japanese ferry runs into 'whale' : A high-speed Japanese ferry has collided with what is thought to be a whale, leaving 49 people injured - 13 in a serious condition.
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