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发帖数: 2153 | 1 Two women were married in a Buddhist ceremony in Taiwan last weekend, in the
first known ceremony of its kind to be held in the country.
While no Asian countries have actually fully legalised marriage equality,
Taiwan – along with Vietnam and Nepal – is one of the few that have taken
a forward-thinking stance on the issue, with legislation pending for nearly
a decade.
If the bill is passed, Taiwan will become the first Asian country to
legalise marriage equality.
The two women in question, Huang... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 2 Andrew Jacobs, Taiwan's Leader Faces Anger Over Storm Response. New York
Times, Aug. 24, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/world/asia/24taiwan.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=taiwan%20ma&st=cse
My comment: Until early this month, I thought the year-end local elections
in Taiwan would be President Ma Ying-jeou’s waterloo. Unexpectedly (to me
and many an expert in Taiwan and abroad) the Aug. 8, 2009 typhoon exposed a
fault line that looks like breaking Ma’s presidency for good. This is my
take: Taiwanese |
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发帖数: 6973 | 5 I receive the following email. As this series is the only I have posted in
this board in recent days, I assume the email from mitbbs.com refers to the
series. As usual, the original posting is about news stories. Pres. Ma YIng-
jeou has not come out to say he was maligned by these news reports. Under
rights guaranteed by First Amendment to US Constitution, I am entitled to
disseminate news reports out there. It is not I who make any personal attack
(PA). The victim, if any (and Pres. Ma apparent... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 7 (1) 王寓中、李欣芳, 查扁執政佚失公文 國際學者質疑馬搞鬥爭. Liberty Times,
Apr 11, 2011 (available now).
http://libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/apr/11/today-p1.htm
(2) Open letter to Ma Ying-jeou’s KMT government. Taipei Times, Apr 11,
2011 (availavble now).
http://taipeitimes.com/News
/editorials/archives/2011/04/11/2003500429
("to express our concerns about a recent new development: the charges by
your government that 17 former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials
violated the National Archives Act (國家檔案法) and two... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 8 VOA Chinese, Apr 27, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110427
-Lobsang-Sangay-elected-prime-minister-of-the-tibetan-government-in-exile-
120786959.html
("获哈佛大学法学博士")
Note: Lobsang Sangay LL.M. '96 S.J.D. '04 named prime minister of the
Tibetan government in exile. Harvard Law School, Apr 27, 2011.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2011/04/27
_lobsang-sangay-certified-as-new-kalon-tripa.html
So he earned SJD (same as Mr Ma Ying-jeou), not JD. |
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发帖数: 6973 | 9 話不是這麼說的~ (the last character is pronounced as diiiii (long vowel)).
It is easier said than done, dude.
(A) Let's talk about Taiwan first.
During the Chen administration, for power grab and to please China, MT (
which was led by Chairman Ma Ying-jeou for some time) rebuffed then US Pres.
George W. Bush's 2001 persoanl offer of arms package, including eight
diesel submarines. The more Taiwanese government and people begged it and
the more US pleaded with it, the more euphoric (which Chinese call " |
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发帖数: 1233 | 10 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: ZZGR (闲逛), 信区: Military
标 题: 澳智库专家：诺贝尔和平奖应属马英九
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Oct 19 04:03:20 2009, 美东)
（联合早报网讯）台湾中央社报道，澳洲著名智库“罗伊国际政策研究院”日前在
其官方部落格刊出的“诺贝尔：被忽略的马英九”一文中，直指马英九比美国总统欧巴
马更有资格领取诺贝尔和平奖。
欧巴马获得本届诺贝尔和平奖跌破不少政治观察家的眼镜，罗伊国际政策研究院（
LowyInstitute forInternational Policy）的资深研究员海恩瑞克斯（Raoul
Heinrichs）12日在官方部落格“翻译者”（TheInterpreter）撰文表示认同。
他在题名为“诺贝尔：被忽略的马英九”（Nobel：Ma Ying-jeou Overlooked）的
文章中指出，上任后积极改善两岸交互，降低区域紧张情势的马英九比欧巴马更有资格
领取诺贝尔和平奖。
海恩瑞克斯进一步表示，他同意许多人的看法，认为授予欧巴马诺贝尔奖的决定过
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发帖数: 10330 | 11 US cannot sacrifice Taiwan to court the Chinese
By David Pilling
Published: March 30 2011 22:45 | Last updated: March 30 2011 22:45
Should Washington throw the Chinese dog a Taiwanese bone? That is the
essence of a quiet but persistent undercurrent of US thought: that
little Taiwan – with just 23m people – is too big an irritant in Sino-US
relations. Instead of continually annoying China by pledging to defend
it, the argument goes, the US should quietly drop its long-standing
commitment.
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发帖数: 6973 | 12 Originally from Taiwan, I have lived in US for more than a quarter century.
Put this way, I am committed to overthrowing KMT. Pres. Ma Ying-jeou is a
one-term president.
I will try to reply to you.
(1) It is not true that 美軍剛剛用海基標准3反彈道導彈試驗成功.
(a) I have no idea why you prefer Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) to SM-2. To be
frank, I am not familiar with differences of the two. However, both have
track record.
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense. US Missile Defense Agency (MDA), up-to-date.
http://www.mda.mi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10330 | 13 Taiwan To Develop Long-Range Precision Missile
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Published: 22 Aug 2011 08:23
TAIPEI - Taiwan plans to develop a long-distance precision-guided missile
which would be able to strike military bases along China's southeastern
coastline in the event of war, a legislator said Aug. 22.
Taiwan's defense ministry has budgeted 30 million Taiwanese dollars ($1.04
million) for developments including the design of the missile bases and
safety systems, said Lin Yu-fang, a lawmaker... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 105 | 14 一看就是外交政策很成熟的政治家。最后一句话很有意思，把三个联合公报放在了台
湾关系法的前面。后者是真正的法律，意义其实比三个联合公报大。但是希妈妈却放在
了后面，
明显是很重视与中国关系的意思。
Statement by Hillary Clinton on Taiwan Election
I want to extend my congratulations to Ma Ying-jeou for his election as the
new president of Taiwan. My congratulations extend to the people of Taiwan
for their democratic achievements which have earned them the admiration of
the entire international community.
The people of Taiwan began direct competitive election of the president in
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发帖数: 2494 | 15 谁有中文的新闻不妨贴一下。
Reunification by trade?
Aug 6th 2009 | TAIPEI
From The Economist print edition
A plethora of free-trade deals is driving Taiwan closer to China
Illustration by Claudio Munoz
FREE-TRADE agreements (FTAs) are often contentious but rarely would one have
as much strategic significance as that proposed between China and Taiwan.
On July 29th Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-jeou, elected last year on a
platform of liberalising business restrictions and easing military tensions
with the mainla |
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发帖数: 6973 | 16 (1) Donna St. George, No more 'marriage gap' for college-educated women.
Washington Post, Oct. 7, 2010.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/07/AR2010100707211.html
(no more "marriage penalty" for woman with college degrees)
Quote:
"For both groups [white women born in the early 1970s, with OR wihout
college degrees], 84 percent had married at some point before they were 40
"In 1950, 66 percent of white female college graduates married by age 40,
compared with 93 percent ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 17 "无端刁难！" "歧视."
Nonsense.
This Taiwanese woman was denied entry and sent back to Taiwan. Taiwan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and President Ma Ying-jeou expressed concern.
Canada Customs issued a statement: it acted within the law. End of story.
The following reports are all about the same event: Canada refused Chun-hua
Lee entry.
(1) 曾鴻儒, 海關刁難／旅行業：只能行前宣導當地法令. Liberty Times, Mar 18,
2010.
http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2010/new/mar/18/today-life8.htm
(2) 張伶銖, 海關刁難 李春花：加國須補償損失. Liberty Times, Mar 20 |
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发帖数: 438 | 18 来自主题: Immigration版 - 放弃绿卡？
Residency
customs,
google
Interesting. President Ma Ying-Jeou told the press he was
no longer a PR of the US because his green card had expired.
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发帖数: 6973 | 19 But his birthday is October 12, 1950. Past.
Anyway, I am resigned to the prospect that KMT will regain the presidency--
but I vow to fight Ma Ying-jeou to the end (as KMT has done to Mr. Chen Shui
-bian). Then Mr. Chen will be remebered as the ONLY person who broke the
stranglehold of KMT. |
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发帖数: 6973 | 20 Even if Mr. Ma Ying-jeou is a US citizen, why can't he be a president of
Taiwan? Is there is a law forbidding that (dual citizenship)? Speciafically
for president. (There seems to be a Taiwanese law forbidding a person
holding dual citizenship to be a civil servant in Taiwan?)
I understand ROC Constitution sets one qualification as a citizen of ROC,
which Mr. Ma is. |
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发帖数: 6973 | 21 You wrote, "那么，为什么外国居民，包括永久居民（但是本国国民）[,]不能有选举
权和被选举权."
The current law in Taiwan is that even if Mr. Ma Ying-jeou has a permanent
residencey (also known as Green Card), he can run for president. Indeed, a
few DPP lawmakers want to change that, but naturally it won't succeed as KMT
now has 3/4 of the seats in the Legislature. Becauswe of the law, I just
don't understand why Mr. Ma just admitted that he has a valid Green Card. (
Of course, there will be a political price to pay--or maybe not--but |
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发帖数: 6973 | 22 The problem is few Americans have heard of "Nationa; Taiwan University," not
to mention others.
I don't think Americans--I mean admission committees--care about grades. At
least not in my case. I said before that a professor in University of
Chicago, who was in charge of admission, wanted to admit me, after I talked
to him for a minute in person. With nothing to show. I was handsome, to be
sure. *That was why I kidded "Myway", when she or he said in the thestrait
board that Mr. Ma Ying-jeou was |
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发帖数: 6973 | 23 【 以下文字转载自 ChinaNews 讨论区 】
发信人: choi (choi), 信区: ChinaNews
标 题: Re: 注意措辞， 马当选的是渔村村长， 不是总统
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Mar 22 13:50:02 2008)
I can not wait to see how China and Mr. Ma Ying-jeou tear each other down. |
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发帖数: 6973 | 24 If Mr. Ma Ying-jeou is free from legal troubles, so will Pres. Chen and
the First Lady--and Vice President Annette Lu.
So will be Mr. Yu Shyi-jun (former DPP chairman). Yeah! |
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发帖数: 6973 | 25 (1) I can't know if it is true, for I don't believe Chinese-language media
in Taiwan.
If she is not retired yet, her business needs her there.
I wish to kiss her goodbye.
(2) My only regret about Mr. Ma Ying-jeou is that he does not hold a US
passport. US confirms that. Otherwise it will be helpful to Taiwan, more
than to Mr. Frank Hsieh.
My opinion is everybody in Taiwan should have more than one passport.
Convenience is one reason. |
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发帖数: 6973 | 26 I am both puzzled and shocked by the statement. Didn't you fly back just to
vote for Mr. Ma Ying-jeou?
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发帖数: 6973 | 27 (1) About your second paragraph. I went back to read Dashuaige's posting. I
still think my reading is correct.
(2) Regarding paragraph 3, please read (the Chen administration's Taiwan) 台
湾继续争取以台湾名义加入世卫 in today's VOA Chinese edition
(如果马英九以较为妥协的名称寻求加入世界卫生组织，虽然在国际上较能被接受，但
是最大的阻力却会来自台湾内部。)
I am against Mr. Ma. Because I simply dislike him. For everything. Why? KMT
and Mr. Ma Ying-jeou have done the same--in fact, more--to the Chen
administration. Time to retaliate. |
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发帖数: 6973 | 28 Well, I have been in US for 2 decades. So I really have no say about what is
going on. HOWEVER, I can't help what makes you think so, the sentence I
attached below.
Today, Pres. Ma Ying-jeou releases "總統發表「六四」十九週年感言" which is
in the center of the web site of Taiwan presidentil office (www.president.
gov.tw), where he reiterates 大陸同胞 he used in the inaugural speech. And
in his presidntial campaign, he uses the term all the time. For example, "大
陸同胞們 | 馬英九、蕭萬長 2008 總統大選競選網站 ." More can be found t |
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发帖数: 6973 | 29 (1)
(a) You are absolutely right. China is not our enemy, for it is in Mars. KMT
is--our enemy within. See
民进党反对外交部拟将访台改访华. Voice of America Chinese edition, June 5,
2008 (today)
("在野党民进党立法院党团干事长赖清德 * * * 说：'有欧鸿炼这样的外交部长，自我
践踏国格，还需要中国的打压吗？'")
Incidentally, the (artistic) photograph of Foreign Minister Francisco Ou 欧
鸿炼 is handsome, more handsome than Pres. Ma Ying-jeou. But I wonder if the
photo was air-brushed, because I jus now found another photograph of
Minister Ou in daily life who looked so |
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发帖数: 6973 | 30 That is the title of a report today by Associated Press. Taiwan's CPC Corp.,
a state-owned enterprise (SOE), expects to lose $2.7 billion this year,
compared with more than $300 million profit last year, due to government
control of proces for gasoline and natural gas--first by the Chen
administration and, even before Ma Ying-jeou's victory in presidential race
(one of whose campaign pledges was to freeze those prices), by Ma himself. |
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发帖数: 6973 | 31 Mr. Ma Ying-jeou in his presidential campaign played loose and fast. His
pledges showed he was ignorant, incompetent or downright lying. A few
questioned feasibility. Taiwanese bought them anyway. Now people--from
Taiwanese to Chinese to Americans--find out he is not a magician after all.
Everywhere the Ma administration and China turn, they encounter the
difficulty of Taiwan sovereignty, or lack of it. The issue is unavoidable.
(1) During campaign, Mr. Ma dismissed aviation between as "neither |
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发帖数: 6973 | 32 I did not know this remark of Mr. Ma Ying-jeou, made before he was elected
president. I don't know when. Now I am convinced he is crazy.
I read another posting of yours, about a war with Japan.
You and Pres. Ma should fight. But most Taiwanese won't. We will watch on
the sideline.
Especially in view of KMT refusing to buy any weapons in the past eight
years. Washington Post today reports, in an article titled "Top U.S.
Officials Stalling Taiwan Arms Package," that Secretary of State Rice is
no |
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发帖数: 6973 | 33 YOur posting is copied from "ido.3mt.com.cn" up to and including "我先在这里
预告一下这条新闻。"
In the "ido.3mt.com.cn" the posting is dated June 28, 2008. "So "萧万长已经
说了，今年台湾的GDP增长不会超过6%，估计在4-5之间" is out of date; even Pres.
Ma Ying-jeou admitted it.
Although I kind of doubt it, but, anyway, it is all the MA administration's
fault. Economic slump in Taiwan has nothing to do with DPP from May 20 on.
So, please keep laughing.
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发帖数: 6973 | 34 That is the title of a Bloomberg News. Consumer Price Index (CPI), an
indication jumped to almost 5% in JUNE, compared with th esame month a year
ago and about 1% higher than econmists' consensus.
Recall that Ma Ying-jeou was inaugurated around May 20. So Pres. Chen Shui-
bian governed--well, I say--up tp that point; the 2/3 of May under Chen made
MAY CPI increased modestly, to 3.71% (besides the Ma administration
increased oli and natural gas prices close to the 3end of May). These two
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发帖数: 6973 | 35 When KMT, under the leadership of then Chairman Ma Ying-jeou, attacked--
malicously--Pres. Chen Shui-bian for years, he did not beg for mercy. Nor
did I on behalf of him. So now that you control, absolutely, the government,
don't whine when we complain about the poor governance.
Just take the beating quietly, please. To the death--of either you or the
opposition (including me). For that is my goal, to exterminate KMT. I have
observed KMT closely for the past years, and am convinced it is an evil |
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发帖数: 6973 | 36 About two hours ago, I published a posting titled shown above in the
Chinanws board. I will cut and paste the last paragraph here.
"Pres. Ma Ying-jeou is in a bind. If he tears up his China-friendly plans
, he will lose all credibility. But Pres. Ma simply can not afford to be
friendly with China while China is stabbing behind his back." |
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发帖数: 6973 | 37 KMT and its former chairman Ma Ying-jeou, who was its chariman in two
critical years, were against arms purchase for years. Definitely there is no
point serving in Taiwan military with no weapons to fight. Let Pres. Ma
fight on his own, together with his KMT buddies. Of course I am dreaming,
for they will be the first to embrace the communists.
Naturally
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发帖数: 6973 | 38 (1) So far, no Taiwanese or Chinese--certainly not you--have told me what's
wrong.
(2) True, Taiwan does not have jury system, although it should. When my
revolutionis successful, there will be.
When I say I can vote in Taiwan but you can not, I mean voting a regime in
or out. Until a few days ago, I had dreamed about his comeback for a third
term of presidency, defeating the incumbent Ma Ying-jeou in 2012. I am
unsure, but unlike US, Taiwan has a constitution that does not bar a third
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发帖数: 6973 | 39 Pres. Ma Ying-jeou left United States on his way back to Taiwan. Central
News Agency is one of Taiwan's many official news agencies. The flight of
fancy* is amazing. That is why I cherish Pres. Chen's honesty. When US was
unhappy about him, he told it like it was.
Note *: Definition of "flight if fancy"
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flight_of_fancy
where the nouns "flight" means an "unrestrained exercise or display" and "
fancy," " imagination especially of a capricious or delusive sort,"
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发帖数: 6973 | 40 Here is the perspective: The president-elect Ma Ying-jeou expressed interest
to visit US as well as Japan before inauguration. US hinted Mr. Ma should
withdraw the request, which Ma did. At the same time, his camp told the
media that US had promised to make up for the unceremonial rebuff, by
treating him nicely in his future stopovers, anticipated in August when
Taiwan allies would have inaugurations. That was another lie.
By the way, yesterday, in this paragraph:
"(2) Despite recommendations of |
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发帖数: 6973 | 42 I want to be fair with Pres. Ma Ying-jeou. It is likely that if Mr. Chen
Shui-bian remained president now, he might not be able to handle the
economics better.
(1) There was a report about Russia, whose table (in the print edition only)
says a thousand words. As the web edition does not have th etable, you will
have to put faith in my reproduction.
Charles Clover and Catherine Belton, Traders' mood bleak after collapse;
Moscow brokers swap stories of margin calls and scarce cash. Financial Times |
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发帖数: 6973 | 43 Today I read
Taiwan is planning to give more residence and work rights to spouses from
China. Taiwanese News, Oct. 5, 2008.
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=755676
My comment:
(1) The Ma administration is a dictatorship, governing without advice or
consent of Legislature. Although the Legislature is dominated by KMT, the
same as the Ma administration, it appears that the Executive branch is going
to govern by edict, doing exactly the same as KMT (and Mr. Ma Ying-jeou)
accused P |
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发帖数: 6973 | 44 My comment:
(1) Since partial approval of arms sale by US last Friday (Oct. 3), China
has protested to US twice. Harshly. It is also noted that China cut off
certain exchanges with US.
It is odd that China is so upset when Mr. Ma Ying-jeou, one eager to please
China, is the president while arms sale under Pres. Chen Shui-bian in the
past years received protests which were just a formality.
I thought of this question last night and conclude that China knew the same
as I did: US is going to sell t |
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发帖数: 6973 | 45 (1) I left Taiwan more than 2 decades ago. Since 1989 I have lived in Boston
, Massachusetts.
When you visit Kaohsiung, look into the Love River. It is rumored that
former mayor Frank Hsieh (who lost to Ma Ying-jeou in March 2008
presidential election) cured it. Tell me if it is clean, and how many feet
you can see into the river in a sunny day.
(2) Edward Wong, 36 hours inTaipei. New York Times, Mar. 2, 2008.
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/travel/02hours.html?scp=7&sq=taiwan+travel&st=nyt |
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发帖数: 6973 | 46 Recently there are two court rulings on the fundamental question if Taiwan
is a nation.
Both lawsuits started before Ma Ying-jeou was elected.
The rulings are both preliminary, resolving the most basic in any lawsuit:
whether the plaintiff has capacity to sue. Only after a plaintiff passes
this and a similar test will a court decide the substance of the case.
In US, only a victim can sue in a civil case (and only state or federal
government can initiate a criminal proceeding); this is called "ca |
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发帖数: 6973 | 47 In a report today (Oct. 22, 2008) titled Taiwan Jobless Rate Rises More Than
Expected In September, global financila newswire RTT News states, "
Economists had expected the jobless rate to come in at 3.95% in September."
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/AllEconomicNews.aspx?Node=B2&Id=749452
(Please recall days ago, Pres. Ma Ying-jeou still cited 3.80% as
unemployment rate despite the fact that the August rate was 4.14%.
My comment:
(1) Taiwanese are angry. Chinese don't get it. KMT does not get i |
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发帖数: 6973 | 48 , those who rise up against Pres. Ma Ying-jeou and tracherous KMT. By the
new administration in Taiwan after the revoltion. Whether the charges
imposed by the Ma administration is corruption or assault or disorderly
conduct. All will be forgiven.
Let's fight a righteous fight.
Follow in the footsteps of Ganhdi; fill the prisons in Taiwan.
In the on-going witch hunt, county commissioner 雲林縣長蘇治芬 (DPP), under
suspicion of corruption but not even charged, declined to post bail today.
Therefore a cou |
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发帖数: 6973 | 49 When you visit Taiwan, as you say you are going to, put up some make-up and
disguise yourself as ARATS (acronym for "Association for Relations Across
the Taiwan Strait") officals (such as Vice Chairman Zhang Mingqing 張銘清
and Chariman Chen Yunlin), you will encounter wonderful experience. If you
are Hu Jintao-lookalike, even better. Also, call news media in advance: the
more video cameras rolling, the more dramatic effect.
However, nothing beats Ma Ying-jeou. You put up his mask. That is the most |
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