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US rules out Taiwan free-trade agreement

Taipei Times

The US has ruled out a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Taiwan amid a dispute over beef imports, days after the nation signed a sweeping accord with China.

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has tried to sell the landmark accord with China to voters in part by arguing that Taiwan would now be able to pursue FTAs with more countries, as Beijing would no longer object.

A ‘social defense’ strategy is needed

Wu Jieh-min 吳介民

There is nothing all that new about cross-strait political or commercial alliances, which are more often than not special interests clothed in some form of rhetoric about being in the public interest. That is surely what we have come to expect of globalization, with its emphasis on deregulation.

Dolphins might be smarter than Wu

Taipei Times Editorial

On Wednesday, several groups of environmental activists and oyster farmers from Changhua County jointly applied to the government to set up a trust fund to purchase coastal wetlands near the estuary of the Jhuoshuei River.

The trust fund for public land — the first of its kind in this country if it is approved — is aimed at protecting the endangered Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins and preserving the area’s unique ecosystem, which hosts a diversity of wildlife off Taiwan’s west coast.

Yilan Children's Festival tests Ma's credibility

Taiwan News Editorial

President Ma Ying-jeou and his rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) have brought further doubt on the reliability of their political commitments by reneging on a public promise to support the revival of the popular and successful Yilan International Children's Folklore and Folkgame Festival (YICF).

The YICF was designed with children as the stars with performances of local and foreign children dance, musical and other performing arts troupes, water games and other amusements and all kinds of cultural and artistic exhibitions for the enjoyment of children of all ages.

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