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Lies, damned lies and statistics

Taipei Times Editorial

Yesterday marked President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) second year in office and the midway point of his four-year term.

In the build-up to the anniversary, the media has been awash with surveys and polls rating almost everything, from Taiwan’s current economic situation and support for a planned economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China, to Ma’s popularity and even his chances of re-election against prospective opposition presidential candidates in 2012.

Pro-Taiwan resolution introduced

Taipei Times

South Dakota Democrat Tim Johnson, founding co-chairman of the Senate Taiwan Caucus, has introduced to the US Senate a resolution supporting Taiwan’s efforts to gain observer status at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

The resolution states that observer status for Taiwan would contribute both to the fulfillment of the ICAO’s mission and to the success of its global strategy — based on international cooperation — to address aviation security threats.

MA: TWO YEARS IN OFFICE: Three-day ECFA sit-in protest starts

Taipei Times

Hundreds of protesters wearing green shirts gathered in Taipei yesterday to begin a three-day sit-in calling for a referendum on the government's proposal to sign a trade agreement with China.

Staged at the Jinan Road entrance to the legislature and surrounded by a light police presence, the crowd chanted slogans including “Give the people a voice” and “We want a referendum.”

Ma offers 'false gold' to trick Taiwan people

Taiwan News Editorial

President Ma Ying-jeou used the second anniversary of the return to power of his rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) to try to persuade the 23 million Taiwan people to believe in a new vision of a "Golden Decade."

Ma clearly realizes that the greatest threat to his chances of winning a second four year term in the next presidential and national legislative polls in early 2012 is the fact that the majority of the Taiwan people have already realized that they were tricked in the March 2008 presidential polls by the KMT leader's "633" mirage.

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