Taipei Times - archives

Taipei Times - archives: "No matter how hard the rain, or how dark the night, the will of the Aboriginal people sitting on Ketagalan Boulevard remained undaunted. They had sworn to rise to the challenge of reconstructing their devastated homeland and keeping it safe. Their plight brings to mind a passage from Frantz Omar Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, their actions a practical lesson in civic education that Taiwanese society would do well to embrace.

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Taipei Times - archives

Taipei Times - archives: "However, it is the growing disparity in our society that people are most concerned about, rather than GDP growth. The statistics released by the DGBAS showed that the household income gap widened last year, with the average annual disposable income of the most prosperous 20 percent of the population — those who earn around NT$1.79 million (US$56,100) — reaching 6.34 times that of the poorest 20 percent. That was the highest since 2001, when the factor was 6.39. Without factoring in the government’s social welfare subsidies and tax benefits, the gap factor surged to an all-time high of 8.22 last year.

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Taipei Times - archives

Taipei Times - archives: "The pages of this newspaper and other liberal publications are filled with beautiful slogans about the need to “protect” Taiwan based on lofty principles such as democracy, justice and human rights. Commendable as these prescriptions may be, in and of themselves they are impotent in the face of the present challenges confronting this nation.

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Taipei Times - archives: "Following a third failed attempt by opposition parties to hold a referendum on the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus yesterday called on the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to support another referendum proposal or face a boycott at next week’s provisional legislative session.

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Taipei Times - archives

Taipei Times - archives: "The latest computerized scenario carried out by the military showed that in a war with China, Taipei would be occupied by enemy forces in just three days, a magazine report said yesterday.

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