C-E 資料分析



附註：因同一例句中可能出現2次以上的銜接詞或關係代名詞，故表格中所統計的詞數會與實際貼上之例句總數稍有出入。

中譯英新聞文本連接詞種類、句子及出現頻率表

|連接詞(Conjunctions) |新聞英文譯本 |

| |(Translational English Journalistic Texts) |

|although, if, as long |Conjunctions and Frequency |

|as, though, even though,| |

|unless, what if, even | |

|if, only if (條件關係) | |

| |although (128) + if (269) + even if (14) + only if (6) + though (20) + even though (11) + unless |

| |(5) + as long as (5) + what if (1) = 459 |

| |Sentences |

| |"Although I didn't produce much during my three-year break, I got back my interest in life. |

| |Although the pay is only around NT$95 per hour, Ilan-born students from colleges all over Taiwan |

| |heed the call and rush back to their native home to pitch in. |

| |Although the time spent on educating students does not aid in professional advancement, and offers |

| |no monetary rewards, he delights in it nonetheless. |

| |Strangely, although English has become the international language, more and more non-Chinese |

| |families have been enrolling their children in Chinese-medium primary schools in recent years. |

| |Others said that Wang Yung-ching, chairman of the Formosa Plastics Group, has still not retired |

| |although he will soon turn 90. Stan Shih looks forty-something, so he would stay on or that his son|

| |would take over from him. |

| |Although Stan Shih is about to step down from management, his sense of calling is as strong as |

| |ever. |

| |Although living in old age with one’s children remains he ideal, today, when the small, |

| |two-generation family has gradually become the mainstream, the two-income family is becoming |

| |increasingly common, and the number of children who study abroad, work abroad or emigrate is |

| |growing many people in their twilight years must contemplate another approach to life in retirement|

| |to avoid living alone with no one to care for them. |

| |Pan Wen-chi, the deputy director of social services, points out that although some seniors arrive |

| |somewhat unwillingly, being with friends on of the same age is better than living a lonely |

| |existence at home. |

| |Although some seniors do not want to face the possibility that they might become bedridden and move|

| |into the neighboring nursing section, there is a real convenience in combining the two types of |

| |facility. |

| |Although the complex organizes activities like a traditional New Year’s Eve dinner, if the children|

| |don’t come to visit or don’t take the parents home to celebrate together, it’s difficult for them |

| |not to feel hurt. |

| |Although “be it over so humble, there’s no place like home,” and living at home in old age is still|

| |every senior’s desire, given the gradual physical and metal deterioration everyone experiences, |

| |there needs to be a caregiver. |

| |Although the ocean currents were fairly calm, the canoeists needed only six hours to complete the |

| |entire 34-kilometer route. |

| |Although opinions differ, it is an undisputed fact that the new retirement system has encouraged |

| |some businesses to give priority to temp labor. |

| |Also, although the Labor Standards Act clearly stipulates that temp workers can organize a union |

| |within the temping agency they work for, because they are employed for different periods of time |

| |and are dispersed among client companies, it is difficult for them to find time to hook up with |

| |each other. |

| |Although Taitung's export sales of atemoyas are still small at the moment, only comprising some 2% |

| |of the county's production, after grading and shipping the price immediately quadruples. |

| |Although there was no part of the district officially known as Fengtien, this is the name the |

| |locals of the villages of Fengshan, Fengli, and Fengping know the area by. |

| |Unfortunately, although chromium is found in a mother’s colostrums, animal livers and kidneys, |

| |cauliflower, potatoes, grapes, and oranges, it is not easily replenished. |

| |Although collagen is beneficial to skin, most of fire cosmetics and skincare products marketed in |

| |Taiwan contain collagen from cows, pigs and chickens. |

| |Although documentaries and business in Taiwan didn't hit it off right off the bat (Passing through |

| |My Mother-in-Law's Village is a case in point), they did serve to encourage later documentary |

| |makers to promote their works to the general public via commercial theaters. |

| |Although Full Shot Communication Foundation does all it can do to help out, if it experiences |

| |financial problems, the foundation directors that "it's time to make some money" and advises them |

| |to "put together a short publicity clip!' |

| |Although the precise causes of diabetes remain a mystery, most studies indicate that modern |

| |lifestyles and living environments, as well as hereditary factors, play a role. |

| |Worthy of attention is the fact that although the prevalence of diabetes is high in western |

| |countries (close to 10%), if current trends continue the incidence among Asian peoples, due to |

| |physiological factors, will reach even higher levels. |

| |Tsai Shih-tzer, a doctor in the Department of endocrinology and Metabolism at Veterans General |

| |Hospital Taipei, points out that although, according to estimates, there are close to 1 million |

| |diabetes sufferers in Taiwan, National Health Insurance data show that diabetes patients under |

| |medication number only 600,000 to 700,000. |

| |Although Wu’s warning words may not be 100% accurate, they are not far off the mark! Of course |

| |there are also loyal and loving children who are more than willing to take care of their aging |

| |parents, but 40- or 50-year-olds cannot just think about raising kids as a way to support |

| |themselves in old age because they are about to come face to face with a phenomenon very difficult |

| |to reverse—the younger population will never again outnumber the older. |

| |He explains that although there is a feeling of helplessness while he lied their receiving |

| |dialysis, and occasionally he will experience discomfort from falling blood pressure of cramps in |

| |his calves (caused by an excessive loss of water from the body over a short period of time), he has|

| |a healthy attitude, enabling him to accept the fact that his illness will be with him for his |

| |entire life. |

| |Although an increase in dialysis patients is a worldwide trend, the number of such persons is |

| |rising faster in than anywhere else. |

| |Although she was hospitalized several times due to infections, her quality of life nevertheless |

| |improved. |

| |Li Chih-che says that although the bulk of Taiwan’s domestic scented tea production seems to be |

| |based in Huatan, every summer the local tea-makers have to get tealeaves shipped down for |

| |preparation before the jasmine buds can be fully processed. |

| |Although bricks have been used in a broad variety of places and ways, most people have at best a |

| |patchy understanding of them. |

| |Although originally from Taipei City, he considers himself more like a local of Ilan. |

| |Although the firm was busy and now had two dozen employees, it still wasn't making any money. |

| |Although it too sits in near a mountain area, what differentiates Tungshan from other rest stops is|

| |the cosmopolitan vibe that permeates the place. |

| |Although Dongguan was one of the jewels in the crown of China’s economic miracle, it still looks |

| |like a modern-day Cinderella. |

| |Although it has set up a range of facilities for the exclusive use of Taiwanese, the Taiwanese |

| |business association in Dongguan, which boasts the largest membership of any Taiwanese association |

| |in the PRC, has also taken the lead in helping Taiwanese businesspeople become integrated in the |

| |local community. |

| |Chao Wei-nan observes, “Although the Chinese government has a clear policy of channeling investment|

| |to the western provinces, and although in recent years the Yangtze River Delta has siphoned off |

| |quite a lot of investment, enabling Suzhou to surpass Guangdong as hotspot of Taiwanese investment,|

| |the number of Taiwanese investment, the number of Taiwanese businesspeople who make Dongguan their |

| |base continues to grow.” |

| |Although home furnishings only account for 4% for the Taiwanese investment volume in Dongguan, the |

| |city has become the largest furniture manufacturing center in the world. |

| |But although quite a number of Taiwanese businesses have come to Songshan Lake to ask about |

| |investment opportunities, nobody has yet signed an investment agreement. |

| |Although Taipower have agreed to pay annual compensation of NT$1000 per person to the local |

| |residents, that money can’t make up for the unease and fear caused by the illnesses that the pylons|

| |are said to have brought to the area. |

| |He says that although the various forms of pollution and public harm caused by industrial |

| |production cannot be denied, the ultimate source of all environmental problems is the consumer |

| |himself. |

| |Although its purpose is to serve the mentally disadvantaged, not all applicants meet Children Are |

| |Us' standards. |

| |An in-depth analysis shows that although the festival industry's surprising moneymaking potential |

| |is enviable, commercialism is winning out over culture. |

| |Chu worked like this for four years and then one day he suddenly realized with alarm that although |

| |he appeared calm and collected on the outside, in fact he felt as if he were bound with an iron |

| |chain. |

| |But, although he loathed all things having to do with the system, after Chu Te-yung actually joined|

| |the ranks of the home office workers his days were strictly ordered and regulated. |

| |He said that although he knew very well he was lucky to have a soulmate and an understanding wife, |

| |whenever she would ask him to do something, as long as it wasn't something too important, he would |

| |revert to his habitual nature and often plan on doing a half-hearted job or just going through the |

| |motions. |

| |Although he loves the clothes of Japanese designers like Yohji Yamamoto and Issey Miyake, devotee |

| |of the frugal life that he is, Chu hardly buys a piece of new clothing once a year. |

| |Although he gets invitations to many fashionable parties, stay-at-home Chu Te-yung rarely accepts |

| |any. |

| |Although unaffected places in the US and the rest of the world are going all out to prevent further|

| |advances by fire ants, convenience of transportation and globalization trends have opened the back |

| |door for them. |

| |Although in the 1990s a great number of doctors returned to China who had been studying abroad, the|

| |medical environment in the country was very substandard and many were unwilling to stay. |

| |Although first-class liver transplant technique also exists in China, such as at Tianjin Medical |

| |University, oil the whole the level of skill is uneven. |

| |Although the CSWF didn't invent the method, the group has made very aggressive use of it. |

| |Although the future direction of Quanta Computer Group's Quanta Display Inc. remains unclear, |

| |Taiwan's biggest flat-panel maker AU Optronics Corporation, part of the BenQ Group, has been |

| |aggressively promoting the BenQ brand, while Chi Mei has established its own brand, Polyvision |

| |Nexgen Mediatech. |

| |Although some scholars disagreed—arguing instead that the unusually large amount of rain and the |

| |natural steepness of surrounding slopes had caused even primeval forest to collapse—the debate |

| |again drew attention to excessive land use in the mountains, especially for orchards, which have |

| |expanded rapidly in recent years. |

| |Although the law stated that Aboriginal land could not be rented, sold, or transferred, because of |

| |Aboriginal inexperience in business, many Aborigines entered into private contracts with Han |

| |Chinese from the lowlands. |

| |Although the problems produced by mountain agriculture—the result of historical factors, policy |

| |choices, and environmental change—are very complex, there is a larger question as well: Would |

| |pulling mountain agriculture up by the roots really solve the problem of mountain-forest |

| |conservation in Taiwan? |

| |Although workers had Labor Insurance, it was restricted to those who had worked less than five |

| |years were not eligible. |

| |James Wang says that although 3D animators are becoming more and more commonplace, WFP's years of |

| |hard graft in the contract animation world has nurtured a stable of outstanding keyframers and |

| |talented artists. |

| |Chi explains that although tire relationship between NGOs and the government is called a |

| |"partnership," it would be more accurate to call it an employer-employee relationship. |

| |Although the fields that have been handed down from generation to generation are often less than |

| |one hectare in size, many of the township's elderly farmers no longer have the strength to till |

| |them. |

| |Although the Tounan Farmers' Association has been contracting with local farmers for more than 20 |

| |years, the farmlands themselves are spread all over the area, making them difficult to manage. |

| |A person spends a few hundred thousand NT dollars to buy a car and although the purchased car is |

| |the result of the individual's own efforts, our society, in addition to providing the motorist with|

| |all kinds of conveniences, also must provide at all times 100 square feet of space to park the car.|

| | |

| |Although transportation policy is not the EPA's official responsibility, we hope that through the |

| |Commission on Sustainable Development we will influence the Ministry of Transportation and |

| |Communications and the other ministries to move in the direction of this goal. |

| |Although the committee ended up recommending 37 different industries, none met all of his |

| |requirements. |

| |Although there was an unremitting series of aftershocks, IHSART rescuers never flinched. To rescue |

| |victims, they laid out green escape routes and illuminated ropes, propped up buildings in danger of|

| |collapsing with excavators, dug holes in the ground, climbed and leapt all over the place, and |

| |burrowed deep into collapsed buildings. |

| |A senior instructor was seen showing off in his uniform in a TV documentary, although IHSART hadn't|

| |authorized him to appear in the program. |

| |Although instructors tell prospective rescuers to "first save yourself before you can save anybody |

| |else," and discourage heroics, Lu acknowledges that it would be misleading to claim that SAR work |

| |isn't dangerous. |

| |Although the victim was a stranger to them, the men gave their all to dig out her body in one |

| |piece. |

| |Unfortunately, although Taiwanese people spend 90% of their time indoors, they fail to find value |

| |and interest in the buildings they live in. |

| |Although curtains are certainly convenient, they don't provide as much protection from the sun as |

| |shade on the facade of a building, and they tend to let heat build up and circulate indoors. |

| |Although his sister was willing to pay his tuition, "my family was poor, and the decision wasn't |

| |negotiable. My mother sent me to study a trade!" |

| |Although at first his heart wasn't in it, after about a month he began to enjoy the work. |

| |What's more, if the work was farmed out, the children's festival would just become a "business" or |

| |some kind of "event," with no deep investment of emotions. |

| |It doesn't matter if they are guides for the foreign troupes or working in the festival |

| |grounds--all interns, without exception, have to have basic English ability. |

| |When a doctor consults a patient, he must first ask in detail about the patient's medical history, |

| |and only if the cause of the present ailment cannot be determined is an examination warranted. |

| |"A doctor has the opportunity to do good, so if he doesn't, he'll feel guilty," says Lai. |

| |His "aunty" says that even if you go to university, you're not guaranteed a job and asks what |

| |Yung-chuan's chances for the future would be if, coming as he does from a poor family, he failed to|

| |study hard and get into a public university. |

| |I understood from a very early age that I'd have no future if I didn't have a good mastery of |

| |Malay. |

| |However, "it wouldn't work if we attempted the 'assimilation' approach adopted in the past by |

| |Thailand and Indonesia." |

| |If you have to fire someone, fire him; if you have to leave a market, leave it; if you have to give|

| |something up, give it up; and if you have to admit defeat, admit it.” |

| |If you could, I would be president of National Chiao Tung University. |

| |Although the complex organizes activities like a traditional New Year’s Eve dinner, if the children|

| |don’t come to visit or don’t take the parents home to celebrate together, it’s difficult for them |

| |not to feel hurt. |

| |If a business in the senior care system sees no prospect of a profit in might just withdraw or |

| |lower the quality of care. |

| |If all we have is the material side of things and no spiritual side, then it will be impossible to |

| |offer seniors a dignified life in later years. |

| |Thinking about the preparations he'd need to undergo to practice in Taiwan--passing the Senior or |

| |the Special Examination for Doctors of Chinese Medicine, then an internship for more than a |

| |year--he wasn't sure if he should stay or not. |

| |If they can't get Taiwanese accreditation in the next five years, then if they cannot find a |

| |hospital post in China their dreams of practicing TCM may end up dashed on both sides of the |

| |strait. |

| |Are your plans for going out marred by worries that your bus won't arrive in time, or that you'll |

| |lose your way and waste time if you drive yourself? |

| |Moreover, when passengers emerge from an MRT station having just taken a precisely scheduled |

| |transit train, they won't feel the disparity in service so acutely if they can access "smart" |

| |shuttle buses. |

| |If someone enters the area in front of an MRT station and by chance service there has been |

| |interrupted, the person can learn of this through his mobile phone or PDA and choose another form |

| |of transportation. |

| |In addition, when the police receive a call from a foreign bride reporting domestic abuse, and the |

| |woman cannot speak Chinese and is not familiar with how to give an address, the GPS system combined|

| |with Chunghwa Telecom's address display system for incoming calls means that if she is using a home|

| |or public phone, the police can instantly pinpoint where she is and dispatch file nearest patrol |

| |car to the scene. |

| |And if they do, will the new technology cause the cultural perspectives and historical significance|

| |attached to roads to also fade? |

| |Labor union members participating in the demonstrations said if the situation continued, the |

| |expedients of temp staffing and outsourcing would threaten employment opportunities for regular |

| |workers. |

| |CEO of the employment agency Career "I'd say temp labor is really a temporary fill-in during times |

| |of business prosperity if the new retirement system has had an influence, it's as a short-term |

| |response.' |

| |"Thus if you can have economy of scale, you are in fact able to guarantee reliable service." |

| |"On the other hand, if a company has too high a proportion of temp workers, and staff without labor|

| |insurance are replaced willy-nilly, this is not really a reasonable situation." |

| |"In the end, if a wage dispute should ever arise, a high profile company like us will certainly |

| |become a target." |

| |If there is a medical dispute, can they be found to take responsibility? |

| |If you come to Peinan Township in Taitung County, with its beautiful mountain scenery, in early |

| |spring, you will frequently see the following scene: baskets of atemoya line either side of the |

| |road. |

| |If the farmers didn't provide the products, there was nothing exporters could do because there were|

| |no compulsory rights or obligations involved. |

| |Otherwise, if produce is inspected at customs in an importing country and found not up to standard,|

| |this could have a ripple effect on all produce of the same category shipped overseas and could even|

| |deliver a severe blow to the image of Taiwan agricultural products as a whole. |

| |But with mainlanders speaking the same language and having similar consumption habits to people in |

| |Taiwan, what could be done if one day Taiwan agricultural varieties and technology found their way |

| |to the mainland and the resulting produce was sold back to Taiwan? |

| |If, just because mainland China makes a big show of being nice, the main battlefield for the export|

| |of agricultural products is unceremoniously shifted to China, and expansion in the US, Japan and |

| |other important markets is neglected, then some day when China suddenly pulls the plug we will have|

| |to face the bitter consequences of an imbalance between production and sales. |

| |If there are discussions, they should establish a permanent and effective trade window, where |

| |either side can open up talks at any time. |

| |If this is not enough to get the disease under control, they also have to take diabetes medication.|

| |Even if the financial institution mismanages the money in the fund, the government is responsible |

| |for making up the shortfall. |

| |If both the employee and the employer agree to contribute to an employee’s pension fund under the |

| |new system, within 30 years her or she will have a secure retirement nest egg. |

| |If they're in a relationship with someone they get along well with, living together can reduce the |

| |economic pressures. |

| |But even if you don't accept it, what can you do about it? |

| |If they do, then we must give thought to increased legal protections for cohabitants as a means of |

| |addressing Taiwan's current birthrate crisis. |

| |One of these groups, LivingTogether, recommends that couples write up and sign an agreement before |

| |they move in together or make a major purchase together, in order to avoid property disputes during|

| |a break-up or if one partner dies. |

| |If there has been an outbreak of disease among a species of animal, there will always be suspicions|

| |that the animal’s products have been tainted. |

| |All we knew was that if the film didn't do well, Full Shot might go belly up! |

| |Although Full Shot Communication Foundation does all it can do to help out, if it experiences |

| |financial problems, the foundation directors that "it's time to make some money" and advises them |

| |to "put together a short publicity clip!' |

| |If we can rid audiences of past biases, perhaps documentaries can become a new outlet for Taiwanese|

| |filmmakers. |

| |As Hsu Ya-ju points out, “There’s no need to prohibit high-elevation farming in Taiwan if it’s done|

| |right.” |

| |If the land management system they’ve perfected over the years were applied to the existing |

| |highland agricultural base, the results would be more conducive to conservation of resources than a|

| |complete shift toward leisure and tourism operations, and since most Taiwanese taken their outings |

| |on weekends, the greatest benefits in cultivated areas could come from retaining the focus on |

| |agricultural production during the rest of the week. |

| |Each time her daughter entered a new class, she would briefly describe diabetes to the teacher and |

| |students, hoping their understanding of the disease would enable them to offer timely assistance to|

| |her child, if it was needed. |

| |If I ate too much, my blood sugar would rise, but if I didn’t eat, I would faint. |

| |Taking Type 2 diabetes as an example, if one parent has diabetes, a child has a 20% chance of also |

| |having the disease. |

| |If both parents are diabetic, their children’s risk of getting the disease is 40 to 50%. |

| |Worthy of attention is the fact that although the prevalence of diabetes is high in western |

| |countries (close to 10%), if current trends continue the incidence among Asian peoples, due to |

| |physiological factors, will reach even higher levels. |

| |However, if it is properly controlled and if complications are avoided, the patient can live with |

| |the disease and maintain a good quality of life. |

| |But if the diet is controlled properly, and the patient exercise regularly, it’s even more |

| |effective than using drugs. |

| |If an appropriate diet is followed and the patient gets enough exercise, but blood sugar levels |

| |still cannot be brought under control, blood sugar reducing drugs must be added to the treatment |

| |regime. |

| |If oral medications prove ineffective, the final resort is to use injected insulin to treat the |

| |diabetes. |

| |If we compare these findings with those of a 1996 survey conducted by the Ministry of the Interior |

| |on living conditions of the elderly, we find that 64% of the elderly “life with their children,” |

| |and 48% depend upon their children for support,” but that there was a yearly downward trend. |

| |If you put away NT$1 million a year, then in 15 years you can reach your goal of NT$30 million. |

| |But if adequate time is allotted for each treatment and the procedure is performed often enough, |

| |then survival for 20 or 30 years presents no real problem. |

| |However, if adequate monitoring and control is not achieved, long-term high blood pressure will |

| |damage the delicate blood vessels in the kidneys. Diabetics’ capillaries will gradually harden, |

| |destroying kidney function and leading to uremia. |

| |If water intake is insufficient while the drug is being taken, it can easily lead to impaired |

| |kidney function. |

| |And even if a patient is fortunate enough to have a compatible kidney available, for the rest of |

| |his life he will have to take anti-rejection drugs, which gave the effect of reducing the body’s |

| |immune response, in turn increasing the risk of infections and cancer. |

| |If the hospital is allocated 100 points by the NHI program, then 100 patients are seen each patient|

| |is worth one pint. |

| |If a hospital attempts to increase revenues by treating 200 patients, each patient will be worth |

| |only 0.5 points, while the total reimbursement it receives stays fixed. |

| |As a result, small hospitals, which had few inpatients, suffered losses if they treated too many |

| |patients in their outpatient clinics. |

| |In other words, if a hospital’s expenditures surpass the upper limit set by the BNHI, it will |

| |likewise face a situation where the more health care services it provides, the greater its |

| |financial losses. |

| |If the town has made any sort of impression on the average Taiwanese, it’s probably for its role in|

| |a commercial for a brand of tea, featuring a bunch of young people frolicking around a century-old |

| |autumn maple. |

| |She can pick over a catty (600 grams) of buds in an hour; if the buds have grown quite large, she |

| |can get as high as two catties per hour. |

| |Having seen her business bounce back from the edge of oblivion, Grandma Wante is frequently asked |

| |if the company has any plans for expansion, but she exclaims, "No. This is good enough the way it |

| |is. We can't keep up with things as it is." |

| |If you drive, the lack of the level, hurried pavement found in the city will oblige you to let up |

| |on the pedal. |

| |But if you run into any problems, Huang is always there to help. |

| |If he's tired, he gives his ragged out brain a rest by crashing on one of the futons on the second |

| |and third floors, working out in the nearby swimming pool, or biking around in the countryside. |

| |If Taiwanese businesspeople didn’t participate as much as they do in the local community, they |

| |would not be accepted. |

| |Therefore, if this work could be brought under the auspices of the Executive Yuan, policy could be |

| |coordinated, with ministers without portfolio in charge of cross-strait affairs serving as |

| |liaisons, and thereby allowing more agile responses to external events. |

| |If you look out from Tunghai University in Taichung, you can see a stand of royal Poinciana |

| |trees—and it is there you’ll find Lungching. |

| |No government officials dared even visit the place, mostly because it wouldn’t win them any votes, |

| |and it would probably just have annoyed the locals if they did anyway. |

| |Pai believed that if he could get the residents to start really thinking about how their homes |

| |looked, and get them eager to get their families back into town, it wouldn’t matter how the actual |

| |renovation turned out—more important than that was the sense of community and of confidence it |

| |would bring back to the town. |

| |They noted that if the government approves construction of Formosa Plastics' energy-intensive steel|

| |refinery and Chinese Petroleum Corporation's No. 8 Naphtha Cracker plant, these projects once |

| |online will exacerbate environmental problems. |

| |You need to look after both the charity and market sides of your business, if you want to stay in |

| |business over the long run," explains executive director Tina Wu. |

| |Only if a festival becomes regular will it be anticipated and become a "tradition" that holds the |

| |public's emotions and memories. |

| |Actually, no matter whether it's "industrializing culture" or 'culturizing industry," only if it's |

| |kept authentic will it be of top commercial value and hold a true festival atmosphere. |

| |Hung Wan-lung says the idea of an arts festival, for example, can only become a success if it keeps|

| |high artistic standards such as the European and American ones which attract the world's greatest |

| |talents, or if it is deeply rooted in specialized, local traditions. |

| |If the festival could get local and international artists to create works on the stone cliffs on |

| |the eastern shore, that would make the ties permanent. |

| |If he weren't doing that, then he would bury his head behind his desk and draw cartoons. |

| |If we look at the mainland purely from the view of market economics, we are bound to make all sorts|

| |of misjudgments. |

| |If the shock is too great, widespread unemployment could result. |

| |If, after being bitten by fire ants, you experience severe reactions, such as itching all over, a |

| |red, swollen face, an accelerated heart rate, difficulty in breathing, or chest pains, you should |

| |seek immediate medical attention. |

| |Only if yon have no other choice do yon go to a Chinese doctor. |

| |If yon really get sick, what do you do? |

| |If no one told you, it would be very hard to spot the hospital with Taiwan doctors tucked away next|

| |to the Shanghai Power Hospital at the intersection of Jiangsu Road and Yan'an West Road. |

| |We'll go again if it's something small, but for something serious, we'll return to Taiwan. |

| |But they also worried about what they would do if something happened en route. |

| |If Taiwanese were forced to accept 'basic medical treatment' they would definitely not be happy |

| |about it. |

| |Each time her two-year-old son Wei-wei caught a cold and ran a fever, Zhou would take him to a |

| |local hospital and the doctor was sure to first give him an anti-inflammatory shot, follow by an IV|

| |drip if the fever didn't subside. Once her son received three whole IV pouches. |

| |But how can NPOs retain good people for a long time if they invariably pay them poorly and ask them|

| |to make sacrifices? |

| |If you don't know the basics, your creativity won't manifest itself, but if you've got a solid |

| |training in the basics, you'll be able to be creative on the spur of the moment as easily as riding|

| |a bike. |

| |If people study architecture and only study those things, then the state of the art will |

| |deteriorate into trendiness. |

| |It's heaven's creation, but if you meet the criteria, heaven will manifest its work through you. |

| |Whether you're a dancer, an architect, or a painter, if you are always seeking external things and |

| |hoping to attain things, then that really doesn't help you achieve harmony with yourself or allow |

| |you to release that kind of creativity everyone talks about. |

| |So if you think of creativity as a "Tao," it will be at a more spiritual, inner level, and practice|

| |is the way to lose something. |

| |Also, if you are always rushing around, you will miss a lot of the scenery along the way. |

| |If one of his apprentices made a mistake, he would rap him on the head with a rod. |

| |If hundreds of years ago Chinese had not flooded into Taiwan and occupied all the lowlying land, |

| |the Aboriginal peoples would never have been forced to move to high altitudes. |

| |During this second effort, the government offered farmers compensation of NT$900,000 per hectare if|

| |they would abandon their orchards during the first year, NT$700,000 per hectare the second year, |

| |and NT$400,000 the third year, with compulsory appropriation of the land the fourth year. |

| |If highland tourism continues to grow, inevitably it will be impossible to reverse destruction of |

| |the mountain forests. |

| |If getting mountain farmers to come down from the hills really is the only solution, persuading and|

| |resettling them will also present thorny problems. |

| |Lai strongly argues that only if the mountain forest resources and profits are shared with the |

| |Aborigines, and non-profit, genuine ecotourism is promoted, will it be possible to address the |

| |problem of Aborigines living off the mountains. |

| |If there aren’t enough young people in the labor force when the baby boomers retire en masse, |

| |social security expenditure may one day exceed income. |

| |If you want government funding to pay for something, first the organization has to pay for it |

| |itself and then apply to the government for reimbursement. |

| |If donors can't see whether an NPO is effective, they can't properly evaluate whether or not their |

| |resources are being used appropriately, and thus won't continue to support that NPO. |

| |Taiwan is, after all, an island, which means that if we eliminate the sources of the disease, we |

| |eliminate the disease. |

| |"Some of these old farmers become distraught if they can't get out and work in their fields |

| |everyday," he says. |

| |But if in the end they discover that they can't sell their crops without keeping detailed |

| |production records, they'll come around. |

| |If industries that produce carbon dioxide emissions continue to develop, we won't even be able to |

| |meet the second, revised target. |

| |The reduction strategy for residential, commercial and transportation sectors is keyed to energy |

| |saving and raising energy efficiency, but if hydroelectric and fuel costs are not adjusted upwards,|

| |won't this mean twice the work with half the results? |

| |In other words, if you can walk, don't ride, if you must ride, choose public transportation and |

| |don't drive a car. |

| |For example, Lu Chin-hung, an educator, recalls that in the martial law era his younger brother, |

| |who used to be a gang member but was also a radio enthusiast, realized that if he joined IHSART he |

| |would be able to play around with radio equipment. |

| |It was thought that even if the money was returned and the envelopes were kept as souvenirs, this |

| |could lead to misunderstandings. |

| |If I face the hell of liquid fire, may the fire spontaneously dry up. |

| |If I face the hell realm, may hell spontaneously disappear. |

| |And if a speechless Handan can take no more, he merely needs to wave a few circles over his head |

| |and his time is up. |

| |Then he says more seriously, if you can't take it you shouldn't bother going up in the first place,|

| |and once you are up there, you've got to show some "spirit." |

| |Their water fills the pan, so that if you then add the garlic, no mater how you saute them, you |

| |won't be left with any aroma. |

| |If ChthoniC's own performances are at the grassroots of creative musical culture in Taiwan, then |

| |Formoz is the annual inspection of that very same culture. |

| |Even though, for the duration of the festival, the park area has at least 300 staff on hand, in the|

| |early days there were two accidents in which children drowned. |

| |Though he wanted to contribute something back, his efforts were instead cruelly thwarted. |

| |But Mrs. Chin had confidence in the quality of education at the independent secondary schools, and |

| |was determined to stay the course, even though it may have seemed a rather tough row to hoe. |

| |Even though he's been able to practice in China, Huang still urges his fellow Taiwanese to be able |

| |to adapt, and to remember why they got into TCM in the first place, and why they decided to study |

| |it in China. |

| |Even though he was busy with school activities, Chu never neglected his interest in fantasy |

| |literature. |

| |And in Sweden, where cohabitation is most common, government notaries even offer "cohabitation |

| |certificates" that detail the rights and duties of cohabitants, though almost no one bothers to |

| |actually register these. |

| |Though family and friends may have long since gotten used to the idea of a couple living together, |

| |they also endlessly deluge them with these kinds of questions. |

| |"Even though we made it clear that living together didn't mean we were going to marry, people still|

| |constantly asked us these questions," says Mr. Chu. |

| |The problem is that even though the technology has been transferred to the private sector, industry|

| |faces a Back of raw material because there is no mass production of herbs in Taiwan. |

| |Though it can be challenging to break into the foreign market, domestic fruit prices can fluctuate |

| |from NT$3 to NT$30 per kilo, whereas the foreign market is more stable. |

| |Though no one in either Wang Li-hsia’s or her husband’s families has diabetes, their three children|

| |are all prone to the disease. |

| |Their third daughter was luckier; though she experienced an attack when she was four, she has |

| |remained diabetes-free in the ten-plus years since it was brought under control. |

| |Now, though the environment has improved and food is no longer difficult to obtain, the thrifty |

| |gene continues to exert its effect, with the result that the person easily accumulates body fat and|

| |becomes obese—an important risk factor for diabetes. |

| |Though the Chinese term translates literally as “kidney washing,” what is actually cleansed is not |

| |the kidneys, but the blood. |

| |This is part of reason that Liao’s husband Chang Cheng-yuen decided to get involved in the |

| |brickmaking industry, even though he never had any contact with it as a child. |

| |Even though to the outsider the China Times publishing group seems a stable "golden rice bowl," Chu|

| |Te-yung was deeply unhappy. |

| |However, though apples did indeed fall out of favor as a result, they were replaced by cabbage |

| |instead. |

| |Though the festival is a tradition, it has changed greatly. Wang Cheng-fu, a researcher of local |

| |history, says that in the early days participants were all mobsters who usually preyed on the |

| |people. |

| |Though everybody liked to watch, they didn't think of the event as respectable. |

| |That's why I won't marry unless I'm 100% certain about it. |

| |The Chinese government has long adopted a policy of not intervening in labor disputes unless |

| |lawsuit is involved. |

| |President Bush believed that unless the Kyoto mechanism was applied to developing countries, |

| |especially China and India, which would see large increases in energy demand in the future, even |

| |LIS achievement of emission reduction targets would not be enough to counter the growth in global |

| |greenhouse gas emissions. |

| |Unless humanity hastens to build sustainability, it will face destruction. |

| |As long as Children Are Us doesn't stray from its objective, these expedient measures can guarantee|

| |the group's continued existence. |

| |Although the agricultural population has decreased in the three years since Taiwan joined the WTO, |

| |output value has grown every year and farmers have had to make fewer adjustments than one might |

| |have imagined. |

| |Although we talk about "limited government, limitless private sector,' for private volunteerism we |

| |only are concerned about the efforts made, not about the results achieved, and we don't seek to fix|

| |responsibility. |

| |Although we are well aware that disaster is knocking at the door, we all carry on as before, taking|

| |the car whenever we go out, and turning on the air conditioning as soon as we get home. |

| |It might sound unbelievable, but it makes sense if you think about it. |

| |What if it didn't turn a profit? |

| |If you had a cell phone that could go online, were in a wireless Internet "hot-spot," and a guide |

| |to local restaurants was online, all your questions would have been answered and you could have |

| |taken that break. |

| |If M-Taiwan is successful, people will be able to free themselves from office network cables and |

| |moderns and get online when- ever, wherever riley want. |

| |If you went online using a cell phone and stared at that tiny little screen for three hours to |

| |watch a sporting event, that would play havoc with your eyes. |

| |If you were using a laptop, you'd have to cart it with you everywhere. |

| |If hot-spot coverage wasn't comprehensive, you could be watching a critical moment in a soccer game|

| |when you suddenly stepped out of wireless range, and who wouldn't get annoyed at that? |

| |If, in the future, we could record, inspect, copy, and transmit information from the scene, |

| |everything would be laid out in plain sight. |

| |On the other hand, if you drop such high expectations, you'll find the dazzling new local festivals|

| |of recent years have brought big changes to Taiwan. |

| |Economists have questioned this practice, asking why, if success in the knowledge economy truly |

| |hinges on skilled individuals, these same individuals are being squeezed for what they are worth |

| |and then tossed. Aren't we shooting ourselves in the foot? |

| |If they shake off old ways of thinking, however, they can realize that they can plan their lives |

| |around the idea of living to age 80. |

| |If burnt out, they can take a break, collect themselves, and then jump back into the fray. |

| |If scientists' predictions or a 95-centimeter rise in global sea levels over the next 100 years are|

| |borne out, thousands of hectares of low-lying land in western Taiwan will be in danger. |

| |But even if we put all such thoughts from our minds and blithely live our own lives, we have to |

| |face the fact that global oil reserves will only last another 40 years or so, and there is only |

| |enough coal for another 200 years. |

| |If we speak of reform, we should start by reforming ourselves. |

| |The activist smiled wryly and replied, "If it doesn't work out, then we'll just take it as a |

| |business learning experience. It will be of some use in any case." |

| |And as long as global competition continues at its current intensity, no end is sight for the high |

| |stress and long hours. |

| |Though there are some differences in estimates, World Resources 2002-2004 gives a world average for|

| |total water consumption per capita, including agricultural, industrial, business and household use,|

| |of 650 cubic meters. |

| |Even though I used a parasol, I had a terrible headache for two days after I got home, as well as |

| |shaky hands and rubber legs from helping load the fruit. |

| |Although, the course content was similar to what I have taken in the past, but the teaching method |

| |was noticeably livelier. |

| |Nowadays, it is quite usual to read about strategic alliances in Taiwan or elsewhere, although |

| |businessmen differ on what they are. |

| |Although their reasons for withdrawal vary, generally speaking foreign insurance companies did not |

| |develop very well in the Taiwan market and did not reach expected market potential. |

| |Although the company’s strategy was to attract customers with innovative products, the conservative|

| |Taiwan market preferences left a lack of demand for Hartford’s products. |

| |In the beginning, although their market share was quite small, Hartford’s insurance fee income grew|

| |very fast. |

| |Although Hartford Taiwan considered shifting focus to re-insurance products, in the end due to the |

| |group’s change in operational strategy this did not happen. |

| |Although Prudential’s levels have been higher than those of local companies for the past five |

| |years, the levels were not as high as several other foreign insurance companies. |

| |Although the EU did not lift its arms embargo against China in 2004, China has not stopped its |

| |efforts in seeking to end the embargo. |

| |The only thing that the entire “How Populism Destroyed Taiwan” changes is that it again employs |

| |extremely inaccurate definitions to push “populism,” a term which originally still had a certain |

| |positive meaning in political science, into an intellectual cesspool, which horrifies people, |

| |although it is unintelligible. |

| |During the “Shangri-La Dialogue” in Singapore in early June, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald |

| |Rumsfeld pointed out that China’s military budget has already become the largest in Asia and the |

| |third-largest worldwide, although no other country threatens China. |

| |Although the momentum for European integration still exists, the dream of uniting Europe through a |

| |constitution has been broken for the time being. |

| |Although fishermen can read the water movements, recognize tidal changes, and understand fish |

| |ecology and the trend of fish harvesting, they only know certain aspects, and not the nature, of |

| |the sea. |

| |Although the land is suitable for human habitation, it has deteriorated under human usage. |

| |Although (the economic development of) Singapore is constrained by talent shortages, it nonetheless|

| |has abundant experience in cooperating with transnational corporations. |

| |Entrepreneurs, who become transnational migrants are usually called “explorers,” since although |

| |entrepreneurs have funds and a business concept, they still face plenty of risks when launching |

| |commercial activities overseas. |

| |Although Europe gave us two brutal world wars, the European people learned from the atrocities and |

| |worked hard to integrate their continent. |

| |Although Taiwan says it has already entered the era of freedom and democracy, most people still |

| |lack democratic sophistication. |

| |After the base day of merger, the gross loan was in the amount of NT$150,321 million, with a 2.4% |

| |growth rate, exhibiting a stable growth; and the explanation of such phenomenon is that consumers |

| |is Taishin’s major strength, therefore the bank is putting all effort in the sector although the |

| |extent of growth is limited. |

| |Although their reasons for withdrawal vary, generally speaking foreign insurance companies did not |

| |develop very well in the Taiwan market and did not reach expected market potential. |

| |Although the company’s strategy was to attract customers with innovative products, the conservative|

| |Taiwan market preferences left a lack of demand for Hartford’s products. |

| |In the beginning, although their market share was quite small, Hartford’s insurance fee income grew|

| |very fast. |

| |Although Hartford Taiwan considered shifting focus to re-insurance products, in the end due to the |

| |group’s change in operational strategy this did not happen. Finally, Hartford withdrew from the |

| |Taiwan market in 2002. |

| |Also, although foreign companies have long-established underwriting experience and knowledge, due |

| |to a lack of marketing channels it was very difficult to develop in the local market, thus impeding|

| |foreign companies from maximizing their competitive advantages. |

| |Although Prudential’s levels have been higher than those of local companies for the past five |

| |years, the levels were not as high as several other foreign insurance companies. |

| |Although this is a long story, things are probably not that complicated. |

| |Although we must give credit for the culmination of the Cold War to the insistence of western |

| |democracies to stick by their guns in maintaining free markets, credit also has to be given to the |

| |people of Eastern Europe for bravely pursuing democratic values and insisting on human rights. |

| |Still, although they lack civic consciousness, several million Ukrainians took to the streets in |

| |November last year amid freezing temperatures for 17 successive days of protests to gain a fair |

| |presidential election. |

| |Although the Environmental Protection Administration attempts to conceptually redefine kitchen |

| |waste as “resources,” arguing that they are needed for rural pig farming and composting, |

| |environmental thinking is progressing and information campaign methods are also quite ingenious. |

| |If you were the manager of Prudential Taiwan, what would you do to solve the following challenges? |

| |If Prudential’s market share remains below 1%, how long would you maintain the current strategy? |

| |If this happens, and matches the upgrading of Taiwan’s industry, then our entire society will truly|

| |be able to enter the realm of a higher civilization and gradually approach the ideal of a “civic |

| |society.” |

| |The example above tells us that if we overly disregard the complexity of the ecosystem, habitually |

| |imposing things, we will often not only be unable to generate the anticipated effects, but on the |

| |contrary easily destroy the base for “symbiosis.” |

| |If it doesn’t happen in 2005, it will be difficult to drag it out beyond 2006. |

| |The book is, for instance, full of prophetic warnings: If Taiwan allows President Chen Shui-bian to|

| |carry on, there will be only two possible outcomes: “One is a war of independence with China, and |

| |Taiwan will be destroyed in the battle fire. |

| |Actually if “How Populism Destroyed Taiwan” defined itself as a bestseller, I would not spend so |

| |much time in front of my computer to ponder the meaning of this book. |

| |If it is determined from the start that one’s own words are the truth and the only way out for the |

| |whole nation and society, then anyone who does not agree with me is a populist, if not a nazi. |

| |It doesn’t matter if the book was written by a ghost writer. |

| |If such statements by such people fit the definition of democracy according to Hwang’s Democratic |

| |Action Alliance, then we must ask Hwang to clarify what his so-called democracy is after all. |

| |If we hear what Hsu Hsin-liang said at the book launch that day, we will better understand why |

| |Hwang does not criticize him. Hsu Hsin-liang said we should now adopt a stance of both unification |

| |and independence and later on form a “super” China together with mainland China. |

| |Under the strange definitions of “How Populism Destroyed Taiwan” only the fanning of Taiwanese |

| |populism and identity is called populist, while anything else such as appeals to a Greater China, |

| |one-China, and “Long Live the Republic of China” are not populist because they don’t cater to |

| |Taiwanese nationalism, even if they all similarly appeal to people, appeal to emotions and appeal |

| |to irrationality. |

| |This means that if 99 percent of Taiwan’s people feel that they must build a state that is separate|

| |from China, this collective will can still be called populism. |

| |If the social Phenomena A and B both fit a researcher’s definition, then this social scientist |

| |should not criticize just one of them, and even less should that scholar denounce one of them while|

| |embellishing the other phenomenon of a similar nature. |

| |I am quite curious, if Lien Chan and James Soong were elected on March 20, could it be that Hwang |

| |then would have said “Lien Chan’s victory symbolizes a triumph in Taiwan’s fight against populist |

| |politics, and at the same time saying it symbolized a big step forward for Taiwan’s democratic |

| |politics?” |

| |If Britain hopes to win compromises from the member states during its EU presidency, then London is|

| |bound to make some concessions. |

| |Otherwise, if it continues to procrastinate, it will only add insult to injury given that right now|

| |spirits are low in the EU. |

| |If a country uses these resources, it will have competitive advantages. |

| |Often, when public incidents occur, the public appears at a loss over how it should respond, if |

| |leaders have not voiced their stance. |

| |I think if people in ordinary democracies see this law they probably wouldn’t need to do much |

| |thinking to realize what the main problem is with it, because it violates the individual right to |

| |free choice guaranteed in free democratic societies. |

| |Therefore if the government is not able to open up mechanisms for civic participation, to establish|

| |a mechanism that allows civic participation outside of elections in decision-making and the |

| |formation of opinions and consensus, then there will be a structural bottle-neck for the growth of |

| |civil society. |

| |If this round of constitutional reforms fails, it will symbolize an utter collapse of reform |

| |momentum. |

| |Mr. Lee always asks questions if he does not know something; in addition, learning from example is |

| |one of his strengths. |

| |They also often entrust their “most important assets” to managers who are not well equipped with |

| |“people management” competencies, which they would surely not do if they really feel it is the |

| |“most important”. |

| |Managers will have different perspectives in managing people in an organization if they view |

| |themselves as “asset managers” managing “portfolios of assets”. |

| |If your company were to stay in Taiwan, how would you develop the market? |

| |What prosecutors investigate does not necessarily lead to an appeal, and if there is no appeal, |

| |judges won’t have a case to handle. |

| |The public’s expectations toward prosecution system reform and even its knowledge about public |

| |prosecutors is rather vague, except if they have first-hand experience with them. |

| |Many are also dispatched to schools to serve as office errand men, but even if they are lazy, the |

| |principal cannot do anything about it. |

| |Even if such a person existed, I am afraid that Ko Chi-hua would not be able to get the feel of |

| |this person’s lifetime struggle with stones and his problem that he settles in Taiwan without being|

| |able to clearly say whether he does so passively or actively and in the end, nonetheless, still |

| |finds it difficult to know where he ultimately belongs. |

| |And it is difficult to imagine what could have happened if the two had met. |

| |If wrongs are not righted and acknowledged, they will fuel anger. |

| |And if anger is not soothed and its causes not eliminated, it will nurture hate. |

| |And if hate finds an opportunity to grow, it will destroy peace and justice. |

| |Now we Bunun people already live very comfortably, if they want to return, we Bunun people would |

| |certainly welcome it and take them in. |

| |If the EU wants to find a way to alleviate the current crisis it is facing with integration, it |

| |could possibly find a way to extend the period for each member state to ratify the constitution |

| |before the end of 2006, which would give all member states a time limit for its passage. |

| |If any development or construction plans are to be undertaken on nationally protected land areas, |

| |the application should examined and approved by the Executive Yuan. |

| |If it is not possible to merge the two, then consideration should be given to adjusting related or |

| |conflicting provisions in the two separate laws. |

| |Everyone can understand that when a frog is in a vat of water, if the water’s temperature rises |

| |gradually, it will not be sensitive to the changing temperature and ends up boiling to death. |

| |But if the water’s temperature rises sharply, the frog feels it and jumps out right away, living to|

| |see another day. |

| |Moreover, if energy and other resources were not so easily obtainable, then demand would go down |

| |and we would have to look for substitutes or change our more excessive consumption habits to more |

| |frugal ones. |

| |If we were able to more precisely control nuclear energy to generate power, we could cut down on |

| |carbon dioxide emissions and the greenhouse effect while creating a stable energy source. |

| |If Taiwan is to make any diplomatic breakthroughs in the 21st century, we must begin with European |

| |relations. |

| |Still, even if the new Middle Asian countries and the three small Baltic States bolted from the |

| |Soviet Union one after the other in the 1990s, this did not mean that national borders equaled |

| |national authority. |

| |At the initial stage, though Toyoshima was profitable, the industry’s operating condition was |

| |already encountering a structural change. |

| |Even though the current EU Constitution draft was written by former French President Valery Giscard|

| |d’ Estaing, the French voters still saw fit to reject it. |

| |This would bring about inflation, but as long as people then cut down on unnecessary consumption, |

| |difficulties could be overcome. |

| |Although he kept the position of vice premier open for Mr. Chiang Pin-kung (of the major opposition|

| |party Kuomintang), he did not get his wish. |

| |Although the EU did not lift its arms embargo against China in 2004, the move appears virtually |

| |inevitable. |

| |Although it sounds like a small matter to affix a fingerprint when exchanging your ID, the |

| |government owes the people an explanation concerning its policy. |

| |Although we have just 640,000 people working in agriculture, the importance for Taiwan of the green|

| |industries that these 640,000 people sustain is beyond description. |

| |Although Taiwanese cinema has a good track record, we still worry about the (future) development of|

| |the film industry. |

| |Although now the Youth Policy White Book points out a direction and path for youth work, youth |

| |issues still continue to be problematic, since under current youth policy state funding is |

| |allocated to disadvantaged and special youth. |

| |Later, although the European Convention on Human Rights and the American Convention on Human Rights|

| |altered the “right to return” to the “right to enter,” the stipulation failed to include the “right|

| |to permanent residence.” |

| |From this process we can see that although the committee members in charge differed each time we |

| |sent our application to a government agency, their responses were largely the same. |

| |Even if it is not clear yet whether the Chinese yuan will appreciate, the Asian currencies have |

| |already brought into play their special trait by “encircling the city (in this case the yuan) from |

| |the countryside.” |

| |If we compare this with a PE ratio of 40 for the Nasdaq stock market, or even with the Hong Kong |

| |stock market, then the PE ratio of Taiwan’s market is surprisingly even lower than that of Hong |

| |Kong. |

| |Even if we want to catch a market rebound, the opportunities are best for the Taiwan stock market. |

| |If this statement is tenable, then the three (Sino-U.S.) joint communiques should also be |

| |abolished, because the last joint communique, the so-called August 17 Communique of 1982, was |

| |hammered out eight years before the EU imposed its arms embargo on China. |

| |Given that China has already become an important trade partner of the EU and given that the two |

| |sides share some common geopolitical values in international politics, the EU and China can only |

| |truly become strategic partners if the embargo policy is abolished, (China argues). |

| |If China can quickly obtain Europe’s latest technology, it would be a major boost for China’s |

| |military modernization. |

| |If values are the same, then overall policy should also go in the same direction, she has said. |

| |Those at higher levels are able to obtain more resources, but if they have not done a good job |

| |designing grassroots growth, and even then resources can be wasted. |

| |In contrast, if women’s movement workers invest a lot of energy into grassroots growing, but lack |

| |people with sufficient exposure or popularity who could do PR for them, it will probably be |

| |impossible to communicate their efforts and achievements to the outside world. |

| |Even if gender mainstreaming is called “mainstream,” and from the beginning a lot of money was |

| |spent to create momentum so that gender mainstreaming temporarily attracted a lot of attention, |

| |we’ll probably have to start again from scratch after the government changes in two or three years,|

| |if we lack detailed planning. |

| |If the Executive Yuan can arbitrarily invalidate my ID, then it can decide one day to do the same |

| |to my driver’s license. |

| |I am curious, however, if an ID card is my right or convenience, shouldn’t the decision over |

| |whether to have one or not rest with me and not be stipulated by law? |

| |This seemed interesting to me, because if you haven’t done anything wrong, why should you give the |

| |government your fingerprint? |

| |Theoretically, if it turns out that my current national ID becomes invalid, as the Interior |

| |Ministry is threatening, my identity as a citizen will still be valid. |

| |If we leaf through newspaper recruitment ads, ads that set an age limit (for applicants) are |

| |ubiquitous. |

| |If we make an analysis from the aspect of living structures, our world has essentially been |

| |tailor-made for young people. |

| |If we always consider the phenomenon of demographic aging with a negative attitude, don’t then |

| |rising nutrition and health standards and an expanding average life span mean that we ourselves are|

| |digging the graves for the state and society? |

| |This means that if the quality of these fruits is improved just a little bit, they will very |

| |quickly become a competitor of Taiwanese agricultural products. |

| |If a country wants to develop its agriculture or its economy, it mainly needs the right policy. |

| |If there is to be sufficient supply of food to meet popular demand, there must be a policy on the |

| |production, pricing, storage, and sale of food. |

| |Therefore, if we want to improve the performance of our entire overseas assistance, we must |

| |establish a coordination mechanism across cabinet agencies to bring into play our full strength. |

| |So I often say, if you have participated in a WHA meeting, it is very difficult after your return |

| |not to love Taiwan. |

| |However, we later discovered that the difficulties were almost of the same dimensions, because if |

| |you lobby non-governmental organizations, most people will express sympathy and will also agree |

| |that Taiwan should join the WHO. |

| |However, frankly speaking, if we continue this year to seek a vote within the WHA, we can hardly |

| |expect any results, given that there is a considerable gap between the number of votes on both |

| |sides. |

| |But if we open the program schedule of our PTS, we can see that it broadcasts animated films in the|

| |mornings and offers just a single talk show program per week. |

| |For example, since I returned to Taiwan and began to cooperate with director Tsai Ming-liang, |

| |virtually every single movie that he made was foreign-funded; if it wasn’t French investment, it |

| |was Japanese or Italian investment. |

| |But if you have somewhat more contact with these movies, you will discover that their content is |

| |filled with similar formulas. |

| |If you read a lot of comic books when you were little and then suddenly you’re given a book with |

| |somewhat more written words, you will probably say you can’t understand, because you’re already |

| |used to reading stories that are told in pictures. |

| |Therefore I would like to ask Ms. Chen, from where should one start, if one wants to get into this |

| |business? |

| |I often think, if I were him, I probably would have stuck it out until the fourth or fifth year, |

| |but would then have given up. |

| |If a government’s scope of control becomes smaller, it becomes increasingly difficult to run. |

| |But if they return to their native homes now, landslides might threaten their land there or they |

| |cannot sell their mandarin oranges because of a glut in the market. |

| |If budgets and funding are insufficient, then specialized personnel and agencies are usually in a |

| |tight spot. |

| |If we include counseling personnel deployed by “youth guidance committees” – specialized local |

| |government units, which are in charge of juvenile delinquent counseling or re-socialization and |

| |social protection cases (the currently existing youth guidance committees have hired a total of 75 |

| |people islandwide) – the number of specialized personnel truly engaged in youth work does not |

| |exceed 500. |

| |If after government restructuring we do not make an all-out effort to develop youth policy, this |

| |visionary white book will finally be reduced to a youth policy with “no place to go.” |

| |If we continue to keep youth under the big umbrella of children and youth protection, then youth |

| |(policy) will never be able to advance and will eternally remain a crippled welfare policy. |

| |If we do not clearly designate a Cabinet agency with specialized personnel and secretarial |

| |executive units that in the future will be primarily in charge of youth policy affairs, it will be |

| |actually really difficult to build the “Youth Advisory Committee” into an integrative cross-agency |

| |platform. |

| |If we follow the draft version of the “Executive Yuan Organic Law,” roughly the following Cabinet |

| |agencies will have something to do with youth affairs: the ministry of the interior and homeland |

| |security, the ministry of education and sports, the ministry of justice, the ministry of labor and |

| |human resources, the ministry of health and social security, the ministry of culture and tourism. |

| |Therefore, I personally believe that if the “Youth Advisory Committee” truly wants to function as |

| |an integrative cross-agency platform, it needs to establish under the Committee permanent |

| |secretarial units, hire designated personnel for its secretariat, while also establishing |

| |policy-oriented work groups, which conduct research and discussions on special youth policy issues.|

| | |

| |Dealing with the root of illegal immigration should involve effective ways to get at human peddlers|

| |and middlemen, which is why some suspect that if police personnel are put in charge of immigration |

| |administration, then they would treat every immigrant as a potential criminal. |

| |Furthermore, civic groups have criticized that in the event that a Taiwanese spouse passes away, |

| |foreign or Chinese spouses are unable to apply for permanent residence if there are no children |

| |from the marriage. |

| |In fact, when the illness can be controlled, if we then don’t help a patient to rebuild his life as|

| |quickly as patient to rebuild his life as quickly as possible, the person’s life is over. |

| |But since the number of national health insurance beds in each hospital is limited and there are so|

| |many patients, you will virtually always get the answer “No” if you call a hospital to ask whether |

| |they have vacant beds. |

| |If public hospitals don’t have national health-insurance beds, you have to take a special class bed|

| |for which you are charged. |

| |If a patient has still 35 years to live after entering a mental asylum, then we have to multiply |

| |the (annual cost) figure by 35. |

| |If you are disconnected from society, how can you help patients to undergo community |

| |rehabilitation? |

| |If neither is the case and these medical professionals usurp the entire field, without any |

| |differentiation at the upstream, midstream, and downstream (points in the mental health care |

| |system), then our criteria for recognizing expertise are problematic. |

| |If they love Taiwan, why don’t they respect things from Taiwan? |

| |Why do government procedures require that we submit successful examples from overseas if we propose|

| |to implement a community-based mental health rehabilitation mechanism that is based on local |

| |research? |

| |If they don’t hire physically or mentally handicapped people, they must pay the minimum wage to |

| |relevant government agencies for further handling. |

| |If it were not for popular opposition and the You (Shyi-kun) Cabinet courageously submitting an |

| |amendment of Article 8 of the Household Registration Law to the Legislative Yuan demanding the |

| |scrapping of that article, I am afraid that this piecemeal strategy would have early on marched |

| |toward success. |

| |If we can call the period between 1860 and 1918 the “Age of Imperialism,” then the 20th century |

| |should be known as the “Age of Independence Movements.” |

| |If at such a time, the wife applies for a protective order, this will“destroy” family relations, |

| |therefore, damage can be minimized, if elders are allowed to “mediate,” (he argued). |

| |If the European Constitution is not adopted, this does, of course, not mean that the EU is dead. |

| |Only if we continue to respect diversity will human civilization be able to continue to develop and|

| |to create a bright and prosperous future. |

| |Assuming one would want to undertake such an integration project if the European countries were not|

| |democratic state, then it would probably turn into a big disaster, because it would likely be a |

| |forced process. |

| |If we lack a rich cultural breeding ground as a basis for our systemic reforms, deepening democracy|

| |will be difficult. |

| |If members of the audience stand up, the seats automatically swing back with a loud bang. |

| |If a report is not verified in any detail, it stands the chance of becoming mere hearsay. |

| |Even if we had strict Web site classifications, if parents don’t help teach their kids what they |

| |can look at and what not, then our promotion would be meaningless. |

| |If we keep going this way, newspapers will just turn into gossip rags and not a comparison of which|

| |paper is offering the most genuinely significant and noteworthy reports. |

| |I remember when I worked at the TV station, if one guy reported two votes for a candidate, the guy |

| |next to him might change that to three. |

| |They still say, though, that Taiwan should join the WHO under the precondition of the one China |

| |policy. |

| |Although ex-president Lee Teng-hui criticized Lien Chan's and lames Soong's visits to China as |

| |marking a step backward for Taiwanese consciousness, President Chen wished them well, saying that |

| |as long as their visits stayed within the law, the opportunity for them to exchange opinions at |

| |first hand with Chinese leaders would be to Taiwan's advantage. |

| |Elliot wrote, although Chen summoned a million people onto the streets on March 26 to protest |

| |against China’s anti-secession law, people should not rule out the possibility that he may make a |

| |deal with Beijing. |

| |Although this is a uniquely Taiwanese religious activity, seven years ago it was upgraded to an |

| |international tourism festival, with related activities held before and after the procession, |

| |beginning in mid-March and running until April 30. |

| |Minister of Justice Shih Mao-lin said that although 5,000 prisoners could gain their release by |

| |paying fines, the detainees choose not to do so because they believe it would be difficult to earn |

| |a living after being freed. |

| |Although Taiwan and Italy don't maintain diplomatic relations, as President Chen applied for and |

| |obtained a visa and cleared customs, he was accorded courteous treatment by the highest levels of |

| |the Italian government. |

| |Although he promised to come up with more evidence to aid the investigation effort of Taipei’s |

| |Department of Health, he never delivered. |

| |Although Sunday’s accident was the first since Wenshan Hot Spring reopened to the public in 2002, |

| |Huang suggested that it might not be the last. |

| |It was note-worthy that Fiji and Papua New Guinea also spoke in support of Taiwan’s entry although |

| |the two countries had no formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan. |

| |Although Wang apologized tearfully for the tape's forged contents, he maintained that the whole |

| |incident was staged by his assistants without his knowledge. |

| |Yet although no major epidemics took place, there were many reports of side effects from the |

| |vaccinations, and compensation claims led to years of litigation. |

| |Although Ni is dead, he is someone we won’t forget,” Lu said. |

| |In a May 10 interview with Suddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest newspaper, President Chen pointed|

| |out that although Lien and Soong enjoyed the recognition of being the first leading Taiwanese |

| |political figures to visit the mainland, the opposition parties do to have the authority to |

| |represent Taiwan’s government. |

| |Regrettably, although the PRC tried to show goodwill on such issues as facilitating sales of |

| |Taiwanese farm produce to the mainland, and of allowing mainland tourist to visit Taiwan, for the |

| |time being there is little sign of concrete advances in these areas. |

| |Although Taiwan's central bank, the Central Bank of China (CBC), has raised interest rates four |

| |times since late September last year to keep inflation in check, prices continue to mount. |

| |Although the relief priching gave out after Wang put in a strong first start as a Yankee, in his |

| |second appearance Wang immediately helped the team turn around, drawing a standing ovation from the|

| |crowd and launching a ten-game winning…. |

| |Although Chou won the support of the largest number of KMT members, observers predicted that he |

| |will have to first overcome difficulties in forging unity within the party and mending differences |

| |with the People First Party, an ally in the “pan blue alliance,” if he is to secure a win over Lou |

| |in the year-end election in the Taiwan’s largest county. |

| |Although it seems that Lou has gained the high ground in the campaign, sources close to the DPP |

| |said that Lou is also facing pressure in his party due to dissatisfaction among the supporters of |

| |Executive Yuan. |

| |Minister of Justice Shih Mao-lin said that although 5,000 prisoners could gain their release by |

| |paying fines, the detainees choose not to do so because they believe it would be difficult to earn |

| |a living after being freed. |

| |If Taiwan cannot stand together, if certain opposition leaders fall for the PRC's ruses aimed at |

| |dissolving Taiwan's internal cohesion, Taiwan will find itself faced with an irresolvable crisis, |

| |the real victims of which will be the people of Taiwan. |

| |Taiwan will only consider terminating measures suspending cross-strait trade if the PRC doesn't |

| |pass supporting measures for its Anti-Separation Law and future developments in cross-strait |

| |relations are favorable to Taiwan's national interest. |

| |Speaking at a Peace Memorial Day rally, President Chen Shui-bian said the world community should |

| |show concern about the law China has scheduled to adopt this month to justify attacks on Taiwan if |

| |Taipei declares independence. |

| |The U.S., for its part, has pledged to defend Taiwan if the island is attacked without provocation.|

| |If the family could not provide sufficient assistance during this stage, Wang said, the teenager |

| |would quickly seek other opportunities to develop social relationships, such as meeting people |

| |online. |

| |Leaders of the ruling and opposition parties in the Legislature yesterday agreed unanimously to |

| |adopt a resolution against China’s plan to enact an anti-session law targeting Taiwan, warning that|

| |they would consider other actions if the proposed legislation was passed. |

| |Human rights advocates, including members of presidential and Cabinet-level human rights advisory |

| |committees, have criticized the premier’s statements that the Executive branch will implement the |

| |program “based on law” beginning July 1 if the law is not revised by that time. |

| |According to the CEC, if the province-level election commissions approve yesterday’s resolution, |

| |there might be a “two-in-one” poll that would combine city and county councils elections with the |

| |year-end city and county mayoral elections. |

| |However, if the province-level and county-level commissions all approve the CEC’s suggestion, the |

| |possibility of combining the three polls will be much higher. |

| |Minister of the Interior Su Jia-chyuan had said earlier that if there was sufficient time to |

| |complete the process of change before the elections, the government would implement the |

| |“three-in-one” poll as scheduled. |

| |If the company fails to act on the government’s demand, “we won’t rule out the possibility of |

| |imposing an initial fine of NT$100,000. |

| |If the two sides, acting with positive intentions, can build an environment of “peaceful |

| |development and freedom of choice,” then for the future no type of political arrangement will be |

| |excluded. |

| |The WHO estimates that as many as 7 million people could die if a bird flu pandemic breaks out |

| |during next year's flu season between January and March 2006. |

| |Therefore, it is imperative that clinical physicians be able to diagnose the disease rapidly if the|

| |medication is to be administered in time, the disease controlled, death rates reduced, and the |

| |opportunity for the virus to spread. |

| |French government will support Taiwan’s bid in principle if the bid is in line with the rules of |

| |the WHO’s Charter and the consensus of the E.U. |

| |It often irritates the sufferer over a long period of time if they fail to receive proper and |

| |consistent treatment, Chu suggested. |

| |No consensus has been reached either on Soong’s implication during his trip that if Taiwan |

| |renounces independence, China will renounce the use of force against the…. |

| |Chen also stated that if some day the two governments can enter into dialog, he of course…. |

| |If international oil prices don't come down, the CPI is unlikely to rise by less than 2%, and |

| |consumers will find that their money doesn’t stretch as far as it used to. |

| |According to current regulations stipulated under the Income Tax Law, if aggregate inflation since |

| |the last adjustment exceeds 3%, all deductibles and exemptions are to be increased, including |

| |exemptions for individual consolidated income tax, standard deductions, special deductions for |

| |salaries and wages, and special deductions for the disabled. |

| |Thus, if prices continue to rise, the various exemptions and credits will be increased in November.|

| | |

| |Examinees can take a second proficiency test on July 9 and 10 if they feel their performance this |

| |past weekend was not adequate. |

| |If the assembly ratifies the reforms passed by the Legislative Yuan on August 23, 2004--including |

| |halving the number of seats in the legislature from 225 to 113, creating a single-member two-vote |

| |district voting system, abolishing the National Assembly, enshrining the right to public |

| |referendums in the constitution…. |

| |If the amendments are ratified by the legislature, the effectiveness of Taiwan's government should |

| |take great strides forward. |

| |Only if the people unite and rally behind the president will Taiwan be able to surpass these |

| |obstacles and let the beauty of Formosa shine for the world to see. |

| |Mainland Affairs Council Vice Chairman David Huang said the law will give China an excuse to attack|

| |Taiwan if China perceives that Taiwan is moving towards independence or “seceding.” |

| |Type-A flu, he said, could lead to serious complications such as pneumonia if the patient’s |

| |resistance to disease is weak. |

| |If you hear the way the singers croon about the place, you’ll know. |

| |Lee also requested, after a discussion on the matter with newly elected FITA President Ugur |

| |Erdener, that the organizer give a clear response on how they will deal with flag-hoisting issues |

| |if Taiwan wins medals at the event. |

| |It insisted instead that the DOH should provide it for free under the Taiwan’s National Health |

| |Insurance scheme, even if the boys were being treated in a foreign country. |

| |People First Party, an ally in the “pan blue alliance,” if he is to secure a win over Lou in the |

| |year-end election in the Taiwan’s largest county. |

| |“It would be very convenient if post office branches in areas far away from cities can offer this |

| |kind of service,” the CBC official said. |

| |If the company fails to act on the government’s demand, “we won’t rule out the possibility of |

| |imposing an initial fine of NT$100,000. |

| |Although ex-president Lee Teng-hui criticized Lien Chan's and lames Soong's visits to China as |

| |marking a step backward for Taiwanese consciousness, President Chen wished them well, saying that |

| |as long as their visits stayed within the law, the opportunity for them to exchange opinions at |

| |first hand with Chinese leaders would be to Taiwan's advantage. |

| |In response to Soong’s visit, Chen said, as long as the opposition leaders safeguard Taiwan’s |

| |sovereignty and people’s welfare and abide by relevant laws, the government will treat their visits|

| |with an open mind. |

| |Though international law provides the right to maritime economic activity including fishing, the |

| |areas in dispute are open waters and not territorial seas, which are within 12 nautical miles. |

| |Hsu, Known widely as “Wen Ge,” or “Mosquito Brother,” and “The Final Arbitrator,” has long been |

| |regarded as the godfather of Taiwan’s underworld, even though the man born in 1913 retired from |

| |criminal activities more than 30 years ago. |

| |Though President Chen’s National Day remarks expressed a friendly desire to resume dialogue, the |

| |PRC response was cool. Zhang Minqing, spokesperson for the PRC’s Taiwan Affairs Office, called |

| |Chen’s comments “Taiwan independence masquerading as moderation.” |

| |Though the PFP’s position in Taiwanese politics is more tenuous, because Soong had met with |

| |President Chen Shui-bian early in the year and the two had jointly announced a ten-point consensus,|

| |observers saw Soong’s visit to China as testing the waters for a potential establishment of |

| |relations between Chen’s administration and China’s rulers, prompting much speculation. |

| |This nation's constitution had been constrained by the conditions under which it was created, and |

| |though it had been amended six times during President Lee Teng-hui's term of office, it still did |

| |not suit the nation's present or future needs. |

| |Sixty percent of the respondents, aged between 25 and 50, expressed the opinion that breast cancer |

| |was irrelevant to their own health, though they comprehended the fact that the number of Taiwanese |

| |women who develop breast cancer each year is increasing and that more people have died from the |

| |illness in recent years, said Chang King-jen, a professor of surgery at the National Taiwan |

| |University’s college of medicine. |

| |Though he supported inter-party cooperation, Ng said the president paid too high a price in issuing|

| |the 10-point joint statement with Soong. |

| |From June 1 transfers made via ATMs will be limited to NT$30,000 day per account, unless payments |

| |are made to pre-designated bank accounts, Cabinet spokesman Cho Jung-tai revealed yesterday. |

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| |With the festival now in its tenth year, many activities are already well established and the |

| |overall preparatory committee only meets twice a year. |

| |But because her children had left home for college and her husband was doing business in China, at |

| |the invitation of an Ilan friend she joined the festival work team, despite her ripe old age. |

| |However, such doctors do not necessarily excel at their profession, and this is a point worthy of |

| |everyone's attention. |

| |When a doctor consults a patient, he must first ask in detail about the patient's medical history, |

| |and only if the cause of the present ailment cannot be determined is an examination warranted. |

| |After spending time with patients in Taiwan, Lai's perspective changed, and he no longer placed all|

| |the blame on his fellow medical practitioners. |

| |He patiently explained the situation to the patient, telling him that he need only gradually stop |

| |use of these medications, and the symptoms would disappear. |

| |The patient did not express gratitude, but rather rudely exclaimed, "I thought you were a big-time |

| |professor with experience, and that's why I came to see you. I never thought you would have to look|

| |things up in a book!" |

| |On graduating from elementary school, he won the local county chief executive's prize, and this |

| |summer he passed the exam for Hsinyuan Junior High School's honors math track. |

| |He was once selected to deliver a speech representing his school and he has also taken part in |

| |recorder (end-blown flute) competitions. |

| |Yung-chuan's father, who is deaf-mute, was unable to look after him, and Yung-chuan ended up in his|

| |aunt's care. |

| |At the time, his father's brothers had not yet left their parents' home to found their own |

| |families, and the household was managed by his father's elder brother. |

| |But several years ago, Yung-chuan's biological mother got cancer, and she hasn't been back to |

| |Taiwan since then. |

| |Some 90% of all children of Chinese descent receive their primary schooling in Chinese, and 30% |

| |continue with their Chinese schooling all the way through senior high school. |

| |Many have Chinese features, but the feeling of being in an exotic land is strong, for Malay women |

| |walk about wearing headscarves, and everywhere we encounter youths with the alert, intelligent eyes|

| |of India. |

| |Most ethnic-Chinese cab drivers speak Chinese, and we are generally able to communicate in Chinese |

| |at the department stores. |

| |The most common interpretation is that, in addition to China's rise as an economic power in recent |

| |years, which means that mastery of Chinese will make a person more competitive in the job market, a|

| |second key factor is that the teachers at Chinese-medium primary schools are very serious about |

| |their jobs, the schools are very tightly run, and students' academic performance is outstanding. |

| |Fewer than two in ten will go to a "national-type" junior high offering a Chinese curriculum, and |

| |one in ten will enroll in a six-year independent secondary school where Chinese is the main medium |

| |of instruction. |

| |They both say that another language is another skill, and besides, they've been learning the |

| |languages since they were little, so it doesn't seem difficult. |

| |In her opinion, as the country develops and progresses, the economic clout of the Malays will grow,|

| |and their self-confidence will grow with it. |

| |Stan Shih was born in 1944 and his father died when he was three. |

| |As he was growing up, he and his mother stuck together through thick and thin, and he inherited |

| |from her his head for business. |

| |Acer’s own brand didn’t show signs of improvement in the USA, and after changing directors several |

| |times, it almost had to pull out of the market. |

| |If you have to fire someone, fire him; if you have to leave a market, leave it; if you have to give|

| |something up, give it up; and if you have to admit defeat, admit it.” Shih says that it’s lonely at|

| |the top. |

| |Nowadays, when he meets old classmates and they start talking about ways to stay healthy, Shih |

| |tells them that running company is an inherently stressful job, which is why he has resolved to |

| |enjoy transferring power to subordinates and not to work himself to death. |

| |Although living in old age with one’s children remains he ideal, today, when the small, |

| |two-generation family has gradually become the mainstream, the two-income family is becoming |

| |increasingly common, and the number of children who study abroad, work abroad or emigrate is |

| |growing many people in their twilight years must contemplate another approach to life in retirement|

| |to avoid living alone with no one to care for them. |

| |However, due to a variety of reasons such as a high sales price and the face that the senior |

| |housing market had not yet taken off, sales did not meet expectations and only five units were |

| |sold. |

| |Li Tang-chi says when he was in the hospital with a gastric hemorrhage, it was hard for Chi Chun to|

| |get around because of her artificial joints, and it was even difficult for her to get out the house|

| |to get something to eat. |

| |After the kids go to school, the seniors feel somewhat lonely, not like in Tanshui where there are |

| |many seniors and activities and things are more lively. |

| |In this atrium style building each resident has a balcony and each room opens onto a courtyard. |

| |Each floor has its own parlor and lounge area, and there is a great deal of interaction among |

| |residents. |

| |Four years ago when we were promoting the complex, the market was not yet mature and only seniors |

| |with a more modern outlook were moving in. |

| |They really take good care of seniors who fall ill, and the place is very clean,” says Li. |

| |There are many different products and seniors can choose according to their needs. |

| |Although “be it over so humble, there’s no place like home,” and living at home in old age is still|

| |every senior’s desire, given the gradual physical and metal deterioration everyone experiences, |

| |there needs to be a caregiver. |

| |Since the lifting of martial law in Taiwan, cross-strait ties have become closer and the number of |

| |Taiwanese traveling to China to study has become a deluge. |

| |For example, from the start of October, Chinese businesses are allowed to directly hire Taiwanese |

| |staff, and these staff will now be covered by the social welfare system. |

| |His family ran a TCM pharmacy, and he grew up around Chinese medicine ingredients and their pungent|

| |fragrances. |

| |In 1995 he traveled to China to study at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and |

| |after five years of study he graduated top of his class and earned a scholarship for master's |

| |study. |

| |Plus academically it is taught in much more depth, including studies of metabolism and immunology, |

| |and Sino-Western combined treatment methods are widely used in hospitals, so the career |

| |opportunities are much broader. |

| |In America and Canada, for example, there is a growing interest in acupuncture, and there are TCM |

| |schools in several countries in Europe, including Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. |

| |If someone enters the area in front of an MRT station and by chance service there has been |

| |interrupted, the person can learn of this through his mobile phone or PDA and choose another form |

| |of transportation. |

| |There's no need to ask anyone for directions, and after you have a positioning system in place, you|

| |will always know where you are and how to get back home," says Mio Technology brand marketing |

| |manager Michael Hsu. |

| |Additionally, when two or more people are riding together and each has a navigation device and set |

| |the same route, each can get to the destination at his own pace, fast or slow, without feeling |

| |pressured to either keep up or to constantly look over your shoulder to find laggard partners. |

| |Technology R&D for CPS devices is progressing rapidly, and as Taiwanese pursue more leisure and |

| |travel, the business opportunities are vast. |

| |However, when they reached the vicinity of Pengh’s notoriously turbulent Tungchi Islet, the sizable|

| |waves threw the boats off course at several points, and the tired boatmen had to continually fight |

| |the strong currents. |

| |In addition, when the police receive a call from a foreign bride reporting domestic abuse, and the |

| |woman cannot speak Chinese and is not familiar with how to give an address, the GPS system combined|

| |with Chunghwa Telecom's address display system for incoming calls means that if she is using a home|

| |or public phone, the police can instantly pinpoint where she is and dispatch file nearest patrol |

| |car to the scene. |

| |The family lived in military housing in Yuanshan, Taipei at a time when many were leaving such |

| |communities, making his neighborhood a quiet and lonely place, and Chu recalls that he mostly |

| |played by himself. |

| |When he was in elementary school, his older brother, 12 years his senior, was already in college |

| |and his older sister, eight years his senior, was in middle school. |

| |To Chu, life is full of choices, and he did not want to just stay in one place. |

| |He wanted to explore other possibilities, and the income that he made from translating freed him |

| |from having to work for a salary. |

| |Whenever this happened, his progress would slow and he would have to try and catch up over the next|

| |few days. |

| |The recruitment ad for systems engineers on the Fantasy Foundation website reads: “However you look|

| |at it the pay isn’t high; we certainly won’t ever be listed on the stock exchange, and we pretend |

| |you’ll have many training opportunities….All we can offer you is a chance to change the world.” |

| |From the legal point of view, a situation originally involving two parties has become one involving|

| |three, and this has revealed the total inadequacy of traditional labor laws and regulations. |

| |The salary was not at all bad for a beginner in the workplace, and then there was also the status |

| |of working for a foreign bank. |

| |As a matter of fact, the day before this demonstration, the Taiwan Confederation of Trade Unions |

| |(TCTLI) held an even bigger traditional May Day demonstration, and the "temp worker" problem was |

| |also a target of protests. |

| |Staff turnover has always been high, and when short-term temp workers are used, both sides are |

| |"happy." |

| |After the new retirement system goes into effect on July 1, the cost of hiring staff for employers |

| |will rise and there will be no end to the tricks introduced to get around this, like disguised wage|

| |cuts, or firing people and then rehiring them to "reset" their seniority to zero, and many |

| |businesses will respond to the situation by hiring temp workers. |

| |104 lob Bank has been in the domestic employment business for nine years and three years ago it |

| |expanded into the temp labor market. |

| |By contrast, the base of the pyramid will broaden without limit and people at that level will be |

| |replaceable at any time. |

| |Ongg thinks that the polarization into "core" and "non-core" personnel is already an inexorable |

| |trend in the work place, and this trend is a harbinger of the continued expansion of the temp labor|

| |market in Taiwan. |

| |On the other hand, if a company has too high a proportion of temp workers, and staff without labor |

| |insurance are replaced willy-nilly, this is not really a reasonable situation. |

| |Some 35% of its labor force is of the non-conventional variety, and about 11% of that is temp |

| |labor. |

| |Aside from the wide variety, thanks to improved farming techniques some seasonal fruits like grapes|

| |and wax apples are now available all year, and this gives them a competitive edge in capturing |

| |overseas markets. |

| |Chen Chin-hsien explains that Singapore and Canada want small fruit of "special" quality, while |

| |Shanghai consumers, like Taiwan consumers, prefer large atemoyas, and the X-large grade is meant |

| |for them. |

| |Because the trees and orchard are free of disease and protective barrier tents have been raised |

| |against typhoons to prevent fruit being blown to the ground, this has been selected as an export |

| |fruit orchard. |

| |Last year it exported 1,000 tons and this year is looking forward to raising that figure to 2,000 |

| |tons. |

| |International market conditions are quick to change, and expert talent in agricultural export sales|

| |is hard to come by. |

| |At the time, banana exports accounted for 25% of all foreign currency earnings, and Taiwan acquired|

| |fame and the reputation as a “banana kingdom.” |

| |Since the Chinese New Year cross-strait relations have been at a low point, and agricultural |

| |products have become an object of the frequent push and pull of diplomacy. |

| |In the subsequent three years, a great number of imported agricultural products have appeared on |

| |the market, and Taiwan agricultural products must certainly "go global." |

| |Several old wooden Japanese-style guesthouses and densely overgrown breadfruit plants, remnants of |

| |times gone by, stand along the streets, the air is suffused with the scent of orange jasmine, and |

| |crumbling walls dot the scene. |

| |After the opening of the Alishan Mountain Railway, cypress wood became easier to obtain, and this |

| |style of building gradually gave way to the Japanese-style guesthouses we see there today, with |

| |walls crafted from a combination of bamboo, clay, and straw, while the outer walls had an extra |

| |layer of interlocking cypress wood. |

| |In the 1980s, the area's deep green jade earned it a reputation as Taiwan's home of jade, and |

| |Fengtien enjoyed a period of prosperity, as well as the arrival of another group of migrants, from |

| |the Aboriginal Amis tribe. |

| |Now that most Japanese Fengtien Association members are in their 70s, they've gone over to biennial|

| |visits, and their numbers are dwindling. |

| |Under the new system, contributions are paid from the start, and how much money an employee |

| |receives is closely related to how the fund assets are managed. |

| |After being discharged, he found work in Taipei, too, and it was just very natural that we would |

| |live together. |

| |Ah-chiao loves to cook, and when she doesn't have to work late, she hurries home to prepare a meal.|

| | |

| |The day after the wedding, Ah-chiao's gown and heavy makeup have been packed away, and life has |

| |returned to normal. |

| |Hotels are expensive and they aren't safe. |

| |But the hotels were expensive and there were also safety concerns, such as the innumerable |

| |instances of couples being illicitly filmed. |

| |Once he moved out of his parents' home, his girlfriend left her roommates, and together they rented|

| |their own little love nest. |

| |For example, cohabitants experiencing domestic violence can now seek a restraining order; in 2004, |

| |civil servants were for the first time granted a birth allowance for children born out of wedlock; |

| |there is hope that the draft of the Artificial Insemination Act, which is about to hit the |

| |legislative agenda, will address the childbearing needs of cohabitants; and the Ministry of Justice|

| |has for the first time broached the issue of amending the family law section of the Civil Code. |

| |You need to be financially stable and you must be ready to make sacrifices. |

| |Marriage is in decline--the number of single adults is rising; the divorce rate is climbing; and |

| |the birth rate is falling. |

| |Here in Taiwan, agricultural technology is blazing new trails in the field, and researchers have |

| |developed one product after another: rice soap, herbal lotion, fish-scale collagen, algae |

| |serums….While creating top-of-the-line cosmetics, they've overturned the model of agricultural |

| |products as items of low cost and low added value. |

| |Rice germ holds ample amounts of vitamin E and unsaturated fatty acids, and the bran has high |

| |concentrations of protein, and also vitamins B1, B2, A, D, and E, as well as sterols, fiber, amino |

| |acids and minerals. |

| |But fish diseases are not contagious to people or livestock, and there is no fear that collagen |

| |extracted from fish will cause allergies. |

| |FRI, notes that fish scales are made up of more than 50% collagen, and the collagen extracted from |

| |them is more than 95% pure. |

| |But there is less oil in fish scales than in fish skin or fish bones, and tile extraction process |

| |is simple. |

| |Therefore, collagen extracted from fish scales doesn't have that fishy smell you get with collagen |

| |from fish skin or bones, and it doesn't require the use of chemical solvents. |

| |Some have a branching shape, others are tubular, and still others are threadlike or membranous. |

| |But today, with the help of biotech, fish scales can be turned into high quality cosmetics, and |

| |rice can be used in moisturizing and whitening soaps. |

| |Unlike essential oils that can cause allergic reactions, this cologne has a feel and scent that |

| |makes people feel very comfortable, and it is very effective at easing stress. |

| |Cosmetics are high profit goods, and they pose fewer risks than plastic surgery, which is highly |

| |intrusive. |

| |After the rescue work came to a close and the volunteers returned home, however, renowned |

| |documentar,/director Wu Yi-feng stayed behind with members of his company Full Shot. |

| |Documentaries no longer lead the pack and this has caused many documentary producers to reflect and|

| |strive to improve. |

| |The road through the plantation is muddy and there's no way to get very far in. |

| |As Ho says, in the export market one is up against the world, and Taiwan's pineapples share the |

| |shelves with ones from Costa Rica, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Hawaii. |

| |Pingtung's pineapples are at their best from March through May-by June they're too ripe and the |

| |acidity starts to drop. |

| |Eating pineapple that's all sweetness without sourness is like eating candy, and all sourness with |

| |no sweetness is like sucking on a lemon," explains Ho. |

| |Taiwan excels in production technology, but packaging and shipping are areas that still need to be |

| |strengthened, and it is these aspects that are most vital to successfully cracking the foreign |

| |market. |

| |Wages are ten times higher than in Southeast Asia, and our growing season only lasts half the year.|

| | |

| |“We leveled this area, and the Japanese cedar and Taiwan cryptomeria around it were planted in the |

| |80s,” explains farm secretary Hsu Ya-ju. |

| |But terraces are narrow and their retaining banks thin, and because they’re so easily broken by |

| |peasants tramping across them to work the land, they can’t function effectively to block runoff. |

| |Environmental factors affecting crop growth are controlled and pollution is prevented from seeping |

| |into the outside environment”—an example of the directions taken by the new “environmental |

| |agriculture.” |

| |That means proper selection of sites and attention to water conservation, and the Meifeng |

| |experience shows that needless calamities are indeed preventable. |

| |According to National Health Insurance statistics for 1998, expenditures for the treatment of |

| |diabetics accounted for 11.5% of all health care spending, and the average disbursement for medical|

| |expenses incurred by a diabetes patient was 4.3 times that of a non-diabetes patient. |

| |Now, though the environment has improved and food is no longer difficult to obtain, the thrifty |

| |gene continues to exert its effect, with the result that the person easily accumulates body fat and|

| |becomes obese—an important risk factor for diabetes. |

| |But if the diet is controlled properly, and the patient exercise regularly, it’s even more |

| |effective than using drugs. |

| |If an appropriate diet is followed and the patient gets enough exercise, but blood sugar levels |

| |still cannot be brought under control, blood sugar reducing drugs must be added to the treatment |

| |regime. |

| |Diabetes is a chronic illness, and there is no danger of immediate death. |

| |Diabetes is a very difficult illness to deal with, and some people are simply not willing to accept|

| |that they have it. |

| |But it’s impossible to escape the shadow of the disease, and therefore, the proportion of patients |

| |afflicted by depression can be high. |

| |Tasks like taking diabetes medications, foot care, blood sugar test, dietary control, and the |

| |prevention of complications are extremely complex, and they can’t be adequately described in a few |

| |sentences. |

| |Nearly all diabetes patients are treated in large hospitals, consuming time and money without |

| |achieving the best possible control over the disease, and this is the biggest obstacle to effective|

| |care. |

| |Once diabetes shows clinical symptoms, it is already too late to prevent, and therefore diabetes |

| |prevention must focus on avoiding risk factors. |

| |In the last several years both the government and private industry have announced a series of |

| |retirement-friendly measures, and there has been a debate on pension reform to pamphlets, like |

| |Retire at 50 and Retire on NT$ Million, that have constantly appeared in the media. |

| |It took the US and Europe some two to three hundred years to make the transition from preindustrial|

| |to industrial society, and this transition extended into the mid-20th century. |

| |But comparing Taiwan with the US and Europe, “the transition period for Taiwan from the |

| |‘preindustrial’ to the ‘post-work’ stage was compressed into 50 years, and there was not enough |

| |time to make some needed adjustments,” says Lin Wan-i, who is an expert on social welfare programs |

| |around the world. |

| |Finland’s Nokia and Sweden’s IKEA remain important pillars of their respective economies, for |

| |example, and only a minority of people has chosen the lifestyle of the post-work society. |

| |Some people regard not working as a kind of work and enjoy being “job nomads” at the office, and |

| |the individual differences are widening. |

| |In fact, the temp industry is subject to the Labor Standards Law and company owners must make a |

| |pension fund allocation for each employee. |

| |If we compare these findings with those of a 1996 survey conducted by the Ministry of the Interior |

| |on living conditions of the elderly, we find that 64% of the elderly “life with their children,” |

| |and 48% depend upon their children for support,” but that there was a yearly downward trend. |

| |She doesn’t buy big brand name products, has a job that interests her and her biggest expense goes |

| |toward education. |

| |For this reason older managers and knowledge workers have an opportunity to get a third, fourth, |

| |fifth or sixth job as they enter the latter stage of life; and people who can enter and leave the |

| |workforce as they please are those who display good character, are more economically active, more |

| |sociable and healthier than otherwise. |

| |When cultural artifacts are retooled for Generation Y, the painting Spring Festival on the River |

| |becomes a digital postcard to send to friends, an imperial jade scepter becomes a combination lock,|

| |and a phoenix pattern becomes a fashionable purse. |

| |The company Bright Ideas has turned an image of a boy and girl in a Song Dynasty painting into the |

| |sort of dolls the younger generation love to collect, and the 02 Design Company has incorporated a |

| |image of birds and animals dating to the Hongshan neolithic culture into an ice-cube trays and |

| |lollipops. |

| |The organization currently has just 13 employees, and only four are experts in design and |

| |marketing--it's no comparison with the commercialized Metropolitan Museum of Art. |

| |Spring Festival on the River had more than a dozen seals imprinted on it, each of a different |

| |shade, and it took three months of adjustments to get it just right. |

| |A reproduction of a Song Dynasty work by Zhao Chang in celebration of the new year is worth NT$1.2 |

| |million, and one of a four-character calligraphic work by Song Dynasty emperor Huizong is worth |

| |NT$54,000. |

| |It’s 7 a.m. and the streets remain tranquil, but An-Der Medical Clinic and Hemodialysis Center on |

| |Taipei’s Pate Road is already getting busy. |

| |But if adequate time is allotted for each treatment and the procedure is performed often enough, |

| |then survival for 20 or 30 years presents no real problem. |

| |“I cursed my fate every day, and it seemed like the end of the world,” Chih recalls. |

| |He explains that although there is a feeling of helplessness while he lied their receiving |

| |dialysis, and occasionally he will experience discomfort from falling blood pressure of cramps in |

| |his calves (caused by an excessive loss of water from the body over a short period of time), he has|

| |a healthy attitude, enabling him to accept the fact that his illness will be with him for his |

| |entire life. |

| |According to estimates, approximately 40% of dialysis patients suffer from primary kidney disease, |

| |and the number of such patients is roughly steady. |

| |Tsai Ming-hung, a doctor at Taipei Show Chwan Hospital’s dialysis center, points out that the |

| |objective of dialysis is to maintain life, and it cannot save the kidneys. |

| |Generally speaking, kidney transplant patients have a higher rate of survival than dialysis |

| |patients, and their quality of life is also better. |

| |Yang Wu-chang points out that during the initial period after a transplant, the risk of infection |

| |is higher due to lowered immunity, and the mortality rate is correspondingly higher. |

| |In the end, her condition deteriorated and she died, not yet 40 years old. |

| |Unfortunately, actual execution of these plans has been fraught with difficulties, and the target |

| |for criticism has been the fixed-budget policy that was intended to control costs and prevent the |

| |waste of health care resources. |

| |As a result, the public is encountering difficulties in obtaining medical care, and patients with |

| |serious ailments are becoming “untouchable” in the eyes of the hospitals. |

| |Looking to the future, it seems to be a foregone conclusion that NHI premiums will have to increase|

| |to ensure that hospitals can survive, the public can get needed medical care, and the NHI program |

| |itself can stay solvent. |

| |This was Taiwan’s first really prosperous time, and cross-strait trade was commonplace. |

| |These trading ships would head to Lukang to do their business, and the merchants aboard started to |

| |seek out places in the area with similar water quality to their mainland homes so they could start |

| |raising fish there. |

| |Seeing the industry on the decline hurt him deeply, and when he heard about the Cultural |

| |Association’s plan to try and revive it, he leapt straight in, despite not quite getting the idea |

| |himself. |

| |Each chimney is from a kiln, and each is one of the last traces of a once bustling brick-firing |

| |industry. |

| |Gradually this dropped to 17, and now there are no more than five kilns still in business there. |

| |Liao Chang-o is a second-generation brickmaker, and the Liao family kiln and factory cover a total |

| |of two hectares. |

| |Each year, production numbers have dropped, and it concerns Liao to see such a big kiln sitting |

| |largely empty. |

| |They sought out Liao’s help with the plan, and she threw herself into it completely, converting the|

| |old factory to focus more on artistic and cultural creations than simple utilitarian bricks. |

| |The Huatan Township Office has worked hard to promote traditional industries in the township, and |

| |chief secretary Lu Chien-san believes this could have extra benefits beyond the obvious |

| |continuation of tradition. |

| |When the train pulled in and he heard the name of the town announced, he misheard the Japanese |

| |pronunciation of the name, Kadankyaku, as Kadoukyaku, or “low-class passenger.” |

| |A few years back, rumors that Wante was on the verge of folding unexpectedly stirred up lively |

| |discussion on the Internet among students in Hsinchu's universities, and young people began eagerly|

| |snapping up Wante products. |

| |Almost everyone who comes to buy our products is young and the majority of those are university |

| |students. |

| |We don't publicize widely and we haven't got a clue about marketing techniques, but with the |

| |word-of-mouth advertising that we have been getting from young people in recent years, our business|

| |has been nothing to sneeze at. |

| |She's a fountain of information when it comes to traditional cosmetology and the people here are |

| |very neighborly. |

| |It wasn't big, but it had character and the people of Ilan were encouraged to take part in the |

| |project. |

| |Over several years, the county government set about sorting out this area, and three years ago |

| |Huang was awarded some supporting projects. |

| |I consider architecture a window of dialogue between man, society, the environment, and the world, |

| |and I hope to achieve through it a more beautiful life for all. |

| |Caring for the environment can be a tough and lonely road and Huang doesn't want the glory all to |

| |himself. |

| |As long as your intentions are good and you stay the course, you'll bear good fruit regardless of |

| |when you join the race. |

| |Stepping inside, the food court is designed a lot like those found in malls, and there are even |

| |areas set aside for other things like clothing and footwear. |

| |After the economic reforms were launched, people and capital converged on Dongguan, and a great |

| |many factories were built there. |

| |Some made fortunes and some lost their shirts, but all contributed to building this city out of |

| |nothing. |

| |She says, “Before 1995, Taiwanese businesses were mainly attracted to mainland China by its cheap |

| |land and labor, and they concentrated on export processing. |

| |Some 3000 people looking for a job showed up, and those who didn’t get one raised a royal ruckus |

| |and pushed over our perimeter wall. |

| |As a result, wages have risen and manufacturing industry has taken a big hit. |

| |In recent years, the labor shortage has become a serious problem and employers have had to face |

| |frequent labor disputes and even strikes. |

| |But now that people from the countryside are no longer rushing to the cities in search of work, and|

| |labor consciousness is growing, it is becoming increasingly difficult to induce workers to work |

| |overtime with higher pay and to keep the production lines running non-stop. |

| |The Investment Environment and Risk Survey came as a big shock to the Dongguan Cigy Government, and|

| |its officials personally talked with the authors. |

| |Chao Wei-nan observes, “Although the Chinese government has a clear policy of channeling investment|

| |to the western provinces, and although in recent years the Yangtze River Delta has siphoned off |

| |quite a lot of investment, enabling Suzhou to surpass Guangdong as hotspot of Taiwanese investment,|

| |the number of Taiwanese investment, the number of Taiwanese businesspeople who make Dongguan their |

| |base continues to grow.” |

| |Y.T. Chen says that small companies draw big ones and Taiwanese ones draw foreign ones to China. |

| |Taiwanese businesspeople are almost single-handedly responsible for the Pearl River Delta’s |

| |economic takeoff, and their own destiny is closely intertwined with the region’s. |

| |As soon as a government order is handed down, fertile farmland is turned into factory buildings, a |

| |residential district is flattened, and factory machinery begins to clatter and clack. |

| |When Typhoon Mindulle hit the island this year, and when forest fires struck the Lishan area, this |

| |arrangement proved very effective. |

| |In theory, government reform should benefit everyone, because public expenditure can be restrained |

| |and service quality can be improved as new challenges are faced. |

| |Every township that neighbors the river has its own irrigation system drawing water from the river,|

| |and it is the farmers’ most important source of water. |

| |Other buildings, like teahouses, pottery stores, and stores selling traditional Chinese clothing |

| |just add to the elegant aura of the place, and when you add in the rows of Indian coral trees, big |

| |public areas at street corners, and beautiful little private villas, you’ve got a spectacular |

| |scene. |

| |Back then, those empty lots were covered in piles of trash, and no-one was willing to come clean |

| |the place up. |

| |No government officials dared even visit the place, mostly because it wouldn’t win them any votes, |

| |and it would probably just have annoyed the locals if they did anyway. |

| |These looming restrictions caused a building boom throughout Taiwan, and the Tatu Mountains area |

| |was no exception. |

| |Thanks to impetus provided by the Lihsiangkuo villas, real estate prices in the area started to |

| |rocket in this township that was once almost begging to be razed, and Pai got substantial praise |

| |from then-director of Land Bank, Donald T. Chen. |

| |Lihsiangkuo may have come a long way from being just a dream, but as far as Pai’s concerned, it’s |

| |still got a way to go, and he’s almost afraid his dream will never be fully realized. |

| |In the early days, the town was actually home to several studios, and the work that came from them |

| |developed quite a reputation, bringing in orders from all over for clothing and artwork. |

| |Those that remained were forced to move into smaller places in lanes and alleys because of the |

| |rising rent for their old studios, and eventually many just upped sticks and left. |

| |Hsiao-yu and family, who set up shop in the community early on in the piece, moved into one of the |

| |lanes fairly early to avoid the increasing rents, and now they display their work in front of the |

| |shop. |

| |The high acidity of this red soil means it’s not too good for agriculture, and because the |

| |geography of the area makes it difficult to irrigate, the farmers there can only really grown |

| |drought-resistant crops like sweet potato. |

| |These days, the shipping capacity of Tatu River has dropped off, and the port is no more. |

| |Taichung Port, near the Tatu Mountains, is part of the restricted Taichung Port Speical district, |

| |and the summit of those mountains is one of the best anti-aircraft defense points in Taiwan; even |

| |today you can still see several pillboxes at the summit pointed out over Taichung Port, ready to |

| |defend it should the need arise. |

| |At the moment, recent arrivals who have moved to the area ready to take up jobs at the science park|

| |are having to vie with students of neighboring Tunghai University for apartments, and it’s clear to|

| |see that in the next few years, as the park continues to grow, there will be an astonishing number |

| |of people moving to the both traffic and business opportunities. |

| |It’s three in the afternoon, and villagers are starting to gather at the local temple, the |

| |Chingshui Ancestral Hall, where the elderly residents sit telling stories to their grandchildren. |

| |A local man by the name of Mr. Chen, an assistant at the temple in his 60s, recounts to us the |

| |story of these wells” when he was a child, the wells were a rich source of water, and every day the|

| |locals would go to the wells and draw water. |

| |Because the gasoline used by motor vehicles is refilled from petroleum, and the refining process |

| |produces large volumes of carbon dioxide, reducing carbon dioxide emissions requires reduction in |

| |motor vehicle usage and increasing the energy efficiency of vehicles. |

| |They saw mentally disabled individuals working in bakeries in a sheltered community and they |

| |thought that it would be an excellent idea to bring back with them. |

| |Because bakeries and restaurants are "high-profile" and Children Are Us' cause is an |

| |attention-grabber, when customers think about donating to charity, they naturally think of Children|

| |Are Us first. |

| |Some capitalize on their cultural heritage, others on local farming or fishing industries, and |

| |still others just invent a festival out of whole cloth. |

| |In 1994, the Council for Cultural Affairs began to focus on the concepts of community development |

| |and "culturizing industry, industrializing culture,' and man townships set about creating events |

| |based on local themes. |

| |Then the Council of Agriculture began to promote local specialties, and the Tourism Bureau started |

| |its policy of "A Festival Every Month" in 2001. |

| |Just flip through the Cultural Calendar published by Taipei County, and you'll see that in one year|

| |there are more than 20 events, such as the Pinghsi Sky Lantem Festival, the Wulai Cherry Blossom |

| |Festival, Jueifang's Gold Legend event, and the Shihmen International Kite Festival. |

| |They have been made into TV series, movies and stage productions, and people have advised him to |

| |set up his own production company to make a quick bundle from the sale of copyrights. |

| |His theme has shifted from men and women living in the city to the psychology of the office worker,|

| |and this is related to his experiences growing up. |

| |Chu Te-yung says that working is the most boring thing in the world, and an equally boring thing is|

| |going to school. |

| |Once in kindergarten they wanted to have some outdoor classes and the teachers broke all precedent |

| |by making a beeline to Chu's home to talk with his mother, asking that he not participate because |

| |they were afraid they wouldn't be able to control him and this would affect the outing for the |

| |other children. |

| |Chu worked like this for four years and then one day he suddenly realized with alarm that although |

| |he appeared calm and collected on the outside, in fact he felt as if he were bound with an iron |

| |chain. |

| |Workdays often exceeded eight hours, and he worked far harder than when he used to be at the |

| |office. |

| |He would religiously rise each morning a little after eight, have a light breakfast and then bury |

| |his head and begin feverishly drawing without a break, except for lunch, right on until the stars |

| |came out before he would rest. |

| |Later, however, under the relentless pressure of his publishers, he would go into his office even |

| |on holidays at the appointed time to draw, and all interest in outside activities disappeared. |

| |I'm a happy person now and I think my current work is better than before. |

| |In addition to the various artistic forms of expression his works have taken, not long ago Shengda |

| |Technology Co., Ltd. of Shandong got in touch with Chu with plans to manufacture a line of |

| |household products using his cartoon characters, and these are expected out the middle of this |

| |year. |

| |He says when he wakes each day his eyes are open in an instant and his brain turns on like an |

| |electric light bulb, ready to go. |

| |Then he falls into a dreamy state of mind and most of the time it's as if he is returning to his |

| |childhood home. |

| |His material demands are low and he doesn't care about fame or success. |

| |Such a course will probably require only three to five waves of macroeconomic adjustment, and then |

| |China will be able to successfully transform into a market economy. |

| |They have seen Shanghai's spectacular economic rise, and some even imagine retiring here. |

| |But there is one thing they cannot take, and that's going to a Chinese hospital. |

| |Her daughter broke out in tears and Mrs. Liu herself was quite frightened but nonetheless watched |

| |as the huge needle pierced her daughter's tender skin. |

| |Liu learned that Chen Xin Hospital had Taiwan doctors, and this made her feel a lot better. |

| |The doctor gave her a bunch of medicine and when she got home, Chang took a good look at the |

| |labels, which were filled with odd-sounding names, and thought she would do some research and find |

| |out what they were. |

| |Now the scar has gotten quite faint and the whole episode seems not to have affected in the least |

| |the daughter's emotional attitude toward sitting for a university entrance exam. |

| |Last year it handled some 720,000 patients and this year expects to top 800,000. |

| |Patients cough without covering their mouths and they spit and blow their noses out in the street. |

| |We can't catch up in one big jump, but we'll make gradual progress, and we'll have to do this in |

| |conjunction with a rise in the cultural level of the whole population. |

| |Three years ago she became pregnant and Chang insisted that while prenatal exams could be done in |

| |China, his wife would go to Taiwan for the delivery. |

| |Each time her two-year-old son Wei-wei caught a cold and ran a fever, Zhou would take him to a |

| |local hospital and the doctor was sure to first give him an anti-inflammatory shot, follow by an IV|

| |drip if the fever didn't subside. |

| |Her son's resistance was poor and she worried that the doctors were giving him too much medicine. |

| |Ten years ago Taiwan entrepreneurs and managers were young, strong and single, and there was no |

| |great demand for medical services. |

| |Ten years later these same men and women have aged and suddenly they realize good health is their |

| |most valuable asset in their job. |

| |At a time when China's urban development is approaching international standards and when their |

| |children's education problem has been solved by the establishment of schools for them, Taiwanese |

| |businesspeople are hoping that the health problem can be taken care of, but this basic wish still |

| |depends upon the close cooperation of the medical communities on either side of the strait. |

| |What are they struggling with, and what breakthroughs are they achieving along the way? |

| |Consequently, organizations do a lot of "poaching," and one person may end up being a social worker|

| |for several groups. |

| |In 1993, the CSWF's first year of collecting receipts, the group collected about 100,000 receipts, |

| |and this figure has risen steadily since. |

| |The dolls have evolved since their introduction, and the foundation is now selling its |

| |third-generation doll, called "The Inner Child." |

| |Advocacy NPOs are of great benefit to society and their influence runs very deep," says NCU's |

| |Chiang Min-hsiu. |

| |NPOs' for-profit activities have not yet turned them into monopolists nor threatened the markets in|

| |which they participate, and these for-profit ventures do pay taxes. |

| |But in the world of architecture, which mixes science and art, what is creativity, and how can it |

| |be brought about? |

| |They allow us to make beautiful three-dimensional models really easily, and a lot of young people |

| |use them to make very eye-catching, exciting stuff. |

| |The Song-dynasty poet Lu You said, "Writings are created by the heavens, and occasionally a deft |

| |hand can catch them." |

| |So all you have to do is find a way not to be so busy and tense, and your innate wisdom will |

| |resolve many things for you. |

| |In recent years, competition from mainland China has stiffened, and mainland factories have |

| |cornered the cheap, mass-produced end of the market. |

| |But thanks to more than half a century of experience, many international saxophone brands still use|

| |Taiwan factories as their principal contract manufacturers, and 12 musical instrument factories |

| |remain in Houli. |

| |Of Chang Lien-cheng's first generation of apprentices, some continued to work as saxophone makers, |

| |some specialized in repairing musical instruments, and some changed career track and became |

| |suppliers of instrument parts. |

| |When his father died three years ago and he took over the enterprise, Chang Tsung-yao and his wife |

| |Wang Tsai-jui took stock and realized that in almost 60 years, the saxophone business had brought |

| |them neither great wealth nor great prestige, but it had enabled the whole family to be well fed |

| |and well clothed. |

| |"For the last half century, all of Taiwan's major manufacturers have passed through the OEM era of |

| |narrow profits, and everybody understands the value of branding," says Lin Ying-yi, special |

| |projects manager for the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers Association. |

| |The Executive Yuan has announced that it will begin studying new land-use regulations, and in |

| |future it is possible that development, agriculture, and residential construction will all be |

| |banned from mountain slopes. |

| |This caused siltation to such a degree that the water became turbid, and water quality was so poor |

| |that supply had to be halted, leaving hundreds of thousand of households in the Taoyuan area |

| |without running water for more than two weeks. |

| |Chang Jing-sen, vice-chairman of the CEPD, which is in charge of land-use policy, states that the |

| |period of continuous high growth in Taiwan is over; moreover the environment has taken all the |

| |punishment it can, and the land is sick. |

| |Conservation should be just bite the bullet and abandon the roads, and people who live in mountain |

| |areas should be offered in incentives for moving out. |

| |But because the government actually promoted mountain agriculture for half a century, now hundreds |

| |of thousands of farmers and workers in related industries depend on it for their livelihood, and |

| |there is also the question of the cultural and historic needs of Aborigines who call the mountain |

| |forests home. |

| |However, now that incomes are higher and imported fruit is easily available, many question whether |

| |the cost of rescue and reconstruction after natural disasters, often measured in billions of NT |

| |dollars, is worth it for the sake of a few apples and pears. |

| |In the near future, as result of policy decisions at the central level, the Veterans Affairs |

| |Commission will take its four large farms—all quite legal—out of mountain farming and it is |

| |estimated that after three years these will have been turned entirely over to manmade forest. |

| |“If agriculture is sent down the mountains and farmers move out, you can bet that the problem of |

| |illegal logging will get even worse,” says Lin I-jen, an assistant professor in the Graduate school|

| |of Ecology at Providence University who specializes in forestry and Aboriginal issues. |

| |For many years now illegal loggers have been cutting trees along the upstream parts of rivers, and |

| |when a heavy rain hits they just wait downstream to pick up the logs that are carried by the |

| |rushing water, the government has never been able to catch them fast enough. |

| |“The Shihmen Reservoir destroyed the Tahan River, and the Techi Reservoir has brought enormous |

| |problems to the Tachia River,”say environmentalists. |

| |This is because the tribal villages include both poor and well-off people, and compensation is |

| |dispensed through a complicated political and economic mechanism, as a result of which “general the|

| |money doesn’t get into the hands of poorer Aboriginal people.” |

| |For instance, the Gender Equality in Employment Law that was passed two years ago requires |

| |businesses with 250 or more employees to provide a nursery, and some have made arrangements with |

| |child-care centers in their neighborhoods, making it easier for parents to drop off and pick up |

| |their kids on the way to and from the work. |

| |In the West, the first level is the government provision of a national pension and labor insurance |

| |system, the second level comprises company pension funds, and the third level is personal savings. |

| |Many people worry that as the population ages, a huge number of people will go into retirement and |

| |the government will not be able to pay for this. |

| |He uses the following vivid metaphor for their decision: "In the past, we were like someone's |

| |chef--the customer would tell us what kind of meal they wanted, and we'd cook it up. |

| |WFP never had its own iconic piece of work, and while the contract production industry was stable, |

| |all of the post-release profits were swallowed up by the contracting company overseas, "although we|

| |were never entirely convinced it had to be that way." |

| |But for a self-produced work like Fire Ball, where the company is involved in every step from |

| |concept and planning through production and marketing, work can take more than three years, and the|

| |funds required can be over NT$100 million. |

| |Keyframers provide the spirit of the characters and their numbers determine whether the company as |

| |a whole is up to scratch. |

| |Some say the film is too similar to American cartoons, that it lacks a unique style and the |

| |characters aren't particularly deep. |

| |"For a high-spec piece of animation, three years is too much of a rush, and we were a bit short of |

| |funds, so I wouldn't say we're entirely satisfied with the outcome." |

| |“We just need to summon the hardworking spirit of the 60s again and Taiwan will have a brighter |

| |future," says Wang, his fighting spirit shining through. |

| |Recent years have seen a huge upheaval in Taiwan's situation, and this has forced NPOs to evolve. |

| |They run a total of five laundromats, and last year they bought a gas station. |

| |Sometimes their expenses actually exceed their revenue, and the foundation has to pay the balance |

| |out of its own pocket. |

| |As the amount of governmental resources available has gradually shrunk in recent years, the number |

| |of NPOs has kept rising, and the NPO scene has become highly competitive. |

| |"Government funding is hard to get, and it's a hassle going through the process," says Garden of |

| |Hope CEO Chi Hui-jung. |

| |Policies change all the time, and this is the biggest problem facing the cooperation between NPOs |

| |and the government. |

| |Professor Lin Wan-i of NTU warns that society needs to be watchful to ensure that government and |

| |business don't start causing undue changes in N POs, using money and power to send NPOs into spins.|

| | |

| |Additionally, some social work should be the responsibility of government and business, and NPOs |

| |should play a monitoring role, keeping an eye on things rather than stepping in themselves. |

| |When NPOs start getting involved in civil service work, it's easier for them to become |

| |institutionalized, and once that happens, their old role, overseeing the government, is lost, and |

| |their new role is confused. |

| |External discipline of them lags behind, Ku Chung-hwa explains, and they lack self-discipline. |

| |Non-profit organizations in Taiwan are still growing and there are many problems to yet to be |

| |overcome, so they need the concern and investment of the people. |

| |After all, these organizations are the last bastions of society's conscience, and we must protect |

| |them. |

| |In the future it will be very difficult to export agricultural products without traceable and |

| |auditable production records, and this is likely to apply soonest to animal products such as beef |

| |and pork. |

| |Now, because Japan is the largest market for Taiwan's agricultural exports and because the Japanese|

| |market is demanding that the foods it consumes be traceable, Taiwan's COA is speeding up the |

| |implementation of its own farm-to-fork system. |

| |In 2002, Grade C and D carrots accounted for 70% of production and each hectare of land produced an|

| |average of 40 metric tons. |

| |By 2003, Grade A carrots accounted for 70% of the harvest and average production had risen to 60 |

| |tons. |

| |The frequency and extent of mudslides are increasing yearly, and each incident brings with it tens |

| |of billions of NT dollars worth of damage. |

| |At present we produce 12 metric tons per person yearly, and we are estimating less than 13 metric |

| |tons by 2025. |

| |At national energy conferences there is always a big argument: if the structure of Taiwan's |

| |industry does not change and we continue to develop energy intensive industries like large steel |

| |mills and naphtha cracker plant No. 8, how will Taiwan ever cut down on harmful emissions? |

| |The parking fees paid by the public can't begin to compare with the capital investment, and when |

| |you turn around and see that a poor person may spend an entire lifetime and yet be unable able to |

| |afford just 30 square feet of land you realize that this is extremely unfair. |

| |Lu Cheng-tsung decided to fly first to Thailand and establish a forward base there, because time |

| |was pressing, there was a direct flight, and it was a disaster area without rebel forces. |

| |She told him, "I know what I'm doing, and I hope that one day you too will go all out for your |

| |ideals." |

| |Though joining for the "wrong" reasons, he found the organization's work gave a new meaning to his |

| |life, and he ended up dragging in his elder brother too. |

| |Business is brisk, and there's always a line in front of their stand. |

| |It was very hot and it took us eight or nine days to dig some of the corpses out of the rubble. |

| |It was thought that even if the money was returned and the envelopes were kept as souvenirs, this |

| |could lead to misunderstandings. |

| |Yang recalls, "It took all my strength to keep from throwing up, and I was unable to eat anything |

| |for three days afterward." |

| |"If you were afraid, you wouldn't do it, and once you start doing it you're not afraid." |

| |That evening at the dinner table, he told a group of friends a piece of Buddhist black humor, "This|

| |morning we saw fish eating people and now we're seeing people eating fish." |

| |Lu Cheng-tsung candidly admits that there are only so many hours in a day and it's easy to attend |

| |to one thing and lose sight of the other: "When work and family collide, one of the two inevitably |

| |gives way." |

| |If the wife doesn't let her husband go, he'll resent it and he'll blame her. That certainly |

| |wouldn't contribute to family harmony. |

| |The landslide that caused the Lincoln Mansions disaster was so violent that ground-floor apartments|

| |ended up underground and the entire second floor of one building was reduced to a space 30 |

| |centimeters high. |

| |We are Taiwanese rescuers and we're here to take care of things and take you away from here. |

| |To protect this section of rare wilderness, the SOW wanted to take on managerial responsibility for|

| |it, and they then set up a few small groups of guides to explain the importance of its conservation|

| |to the populace. |

| |Usually, the arrival of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth of the first lunar month means the |

| |end of the Lunar New Year holiday season, and the festive sound of firecrackers fades away. |

| |Everywhere his palanquin goes, the excitement follows, and firecrackers are set off by the boxload.|

| |He has earplugs in his ears, and his nose and mouth are covered with a wet yellow cloth. |

| |Those setting them off, however, were inexperienced, and the firecrackers were of all different |

| |sizes. |

| |The explosions often got out of control, and there were many accidents. |

| |Look up and you'll notice that the rooftops are covered with spectators too. |

| |And if a speechless Handan can take no more, he merely needs to wave a few circles over his head |

| |and his time is up. |

| |The next takes his turn, and so it continues until there are no more firecrackers. |

| |Businesses usually give a red envelope of cash to the Handans when they come down from the |

| |palanquin as a token of gratitude, and Chinyeh hands out specially made gold medals every year. |

| |Then he says more seriously, if you can't take it you shouldn't bother going up in the first place,|

| |and once you are up there, you've got to show some "spirit." |

| |Those manning the firecrackers are merciful, and the scene is played up for entertainment with |

| |continuous detonations that don't actually hit him. |

| |In 1983, the government tried to stamp out what they saw as a threat to public order, and the |

| |police chief banned the event. |

| |There were no temples involved and everything was managed by the mobsters. |

| |Too many gardeners are required to trim the trees, water is wasted, and pollution prevents living |

| |organisms from thriving and surviving in this environment. |

| |The market for steel framework buildings with low carbon emissions is small, and their cost remains|

| |high. |

| |Lin notes that because as houses get old they lose half their value, the quality of building |

| |materials is poor, and people don't have a tradition of spending money on taking care of old |

| |buildings, the average life span of residential housing in Taiwan is only 45 years, far below |

| |Europe and the United States, where the average is over 100 years. |

| |Although curtains are certainly convenient, they don't provide as much protection from the sun as |

| |shade on the facade of a building, and they tend to let heat build up and circulate indoors. |

| |Tracing his ancestry to Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province, Chang was born in Shanghai, and his family |

| |moved to Hong Kong when he was a baby. |

| |Although his sister was willing to pay his tuition, "my family was poor, and the decision wasn't |

| |negotiable. |

| |That same year, ROC president Chen Shui-bian was hosting a visit from the president of Honduras, |

| |and Chang handled the cooking with 180 students under him. |

| |Freddy remembers that at first he just wanted to listen to a bit of music that was heavy and |

| |extreme, and he ended up coming across a lot of black metal. |

| |The black metal of northern Europe was an attempt to revive and return to that traditional culture,|

| |and so its lyrics were frequently written in the manner of classical literature, and were injected |

| |with liberal amounts of anti-Christian sentiment, historical and mythological references, and |

| |contradictions and death. |

| |After all, Taiwan has its own historical and cultural background, and so Taiwanese black metal |

| |should focus on local themes and musical styles. |

| |"That's because our music deals with issues of life and death, and this kind of look helps both the|

| |band and the audience get into the spirit quicker," he explains. |

| |When they'd had enough music for a while, attendees could go and watch some experimental cinema or |

| |wrestling, and if they got hungry, there were snacks a-plenty. |

| |The hospital became a living hell, and the people of Taiwan discovered what a heavy burden doctors |

| |bear, in addition to their exalted status. |

| |Lin was the first Taiwanese health-care worker to die of SARS, but his case was far from unique, |

| |for in the three months of the epidemic 12 health-care workers gave up their lives, and over 90 |

| |more were snatched back from the jaws of death. |

| |Due to inadequacies in its design, the ten-year-old National Health Insurance system is on the |

| |verge of bankruptcy; health-care institutions both public and private are tending more and more |

| |toward the naked pursuit of profit, and their finances are in crisis; |

| |A new version of the plan comes into effect in April, and hospitals large and small have been |

| |scurrying to recalculate their finances and reoreint their business plans. |

| |Perhaps because medicine has always been young people's first choice as a field of study, the |

| |profession is home to many of Taiwan's most able people, and therefore it should naturally have a |

| |deeper ability for self-reflection and greater expectations of itself. |

| |To this day, Guangdong remains tile area in China most populated by Taiwanese businessmen, and by |

| |2002 their cumulative investment there had reached US$8.4 billion. |

| |But more important is that electricity, and especially water, are cheap, so people waste them. |

| |Israel, affected by this move, responded in kind and drained the Huleh Swamp, which caused great |

| |alarm in Syria, and there followed continuous clashes. |

| |Last spring, planting had to be stopped because of a water shortage, and this year we had a rare |

| |March snowfall. |

| |The average Taiwan farmer owns just one hectare of land, which is not at an economic scale, and the|

| |price of land is 20 times higher than in Southeast Asia, while the cost of labor is ten times as |

| |much. With such high capital costs, export sales face great difficulties and farmers are forced to |

| |sell where and what they can. |

| |Agriculture is a way of life, a culture, and perhaps the miracle industry of which Taiwan can be |

| |most proud. |

| |More than 60,000 non-Chinese students are enrolled at Chinese primary schools, and at star Chinese |

| |primary schools intakes are so high that funds are insufficient and teaching resources inadequate, |

| |making Malaysian Chinese both happy and sad. |

| |If hot-spot coverage wasn't comprehensive, you could be watching a critical moment in a soccer game|

| |when you suddenly stepped out of wireless range, and who wouldn't get annoyed at that? |

| |Although we talk about "limited government, limitless private sector,' for private volunteerism we |

| |only are concerned about the efforts made, not about the results achieved, and we don't seek to fix|

| |responsibility. |

| |There were a few foreigners in attendance, though, and the international-level dragon boat races |

| |were exciting to watch. |

| |Cars weren't permitted inside the grounds, and the shuttle bus only made one trip per hour, so you |

| |just had to wait there in the sun, steaming. |

| |No craftsmen were to be seen, and storefronts were mostly filled with crude-looking, mass produced |

| |goods. |

| |The Olympic Games started 2,800 years ago as a simple Greek ceremony to worship Zeus, but over |

| |recent generations have turned into a huge moneyspinner, and every nation would like to emulate |

| |their success by making a new festival of its own. |

| |Because of it, Taiwan's birth rate is dropping faster than any other in the world; over 40% of |

| |Hsinchu Industrial Park engineers are said to be sterile; and a staggering number of families has |

| |one spouse living on either side of the Taiwan Strait. |

| |But the nation and people of Taiwan have been overloaded like few others in the world today, |

| |because Taiwan has had to battle at close quarters with China, the world's newest and fiercest |

| |industrial titan; Taiwan's industries faced obstacles that make transforming and upgrading |

| |difficult; and over the past 20 years, mantras like "be the best in the world" and "no pain, no |

| |gain" have conditioned them. |

| |But even if we put all such thoughts from our minds and blithely live our own lives, we have to |

| |face the fact that global oil reserves will only last another 40 years or so, and there is only |

| |enough coal for another 200 years. |

| |This will only and further worsen the local brain drain, and we the consumers may pay the ultimate |

| |price for losing our cultural heritage. |

| |At INCAE, there were three trimesters in a year and each trimester was further divided into two |

| |parts. |

| |The first two courses were taught by the school’s own renowned scholars using the Harvard business |

| |case method and there was a case for each class. |

| |“But interest in being appointed abroad is very low, and that’s why I need you help to do some |

| |sweet-talking.” |

| |During the process of globalization, enterprises integrate and standardize their global production,|

| |marketing or personnel activities in order to lower costs and create a more consistent global |

| |image, and this is the essence of “globalization.” |

| |What are the challenges facing Victory Computer’s human resources management, and what is the root |

| |cause of disconnection plaguing its personnel system? |

| |Thus, one partner may have the goal of developing a new technology application for the China market|

| |and the other partner may be seeking to exit the OEM business and develop his own brand and |

| |channels of distribution. |

| |What features do FIC’s GLM possess and do they effectively resolve the problems derived from global|

| |logistics? |

| |Under such centralized management system, operation performance can be enhanced and the cost |

| |lowered. |

| |For instance, human resource was harder to find and cost was rapid escalating. |

| |Internationally, the worldwide markets are becoming homogenized, transnational communication and |

| |transportation are now more convenient; foreign investments have become easier to attract; and the |

| |mobility of human capital has increased. |

| |Due to these changes in the international environment, the entry barrier for transnational |

| |operations ahs tremendously lowered, and many advantages are no longer exclusive to large |

| |corporation. |

| |. Meanwhile, the existing fire and motor insurance markets were highly competitive, and price |

| |competition made it very difficult to achieve profit in this market. |

| |In 1996, after extravagant claims settlement expenses, Hartford’s insurance volume decreased |

| |rapidly and they almost completely stopped developing new insurance customers. |

| |In 1987, regulations relaxed slightly and the market opened to two American firms per year. Only |

| |until 1994 did the market open completely. |

| |As a result, new insurance products are continuously developed, and the professional marketing and |

| |sales system greatly improved the consumers’ perception of the insurance industry, thereby |

| |increasing the demand for insurance products. |

| |This strategy has been successful and ING Antai so far has quickly increased their product sales |

| |and built up high levels of awareness in the market. |

| |Perhaps such integrative premiership skills could create a new atmosphere for Taiwan’s education |

| |and culture: a certain tolerance and self-confidence that slowly emerges after political passions |

| |have subsided and that is also able to lead society more precisely forward in a down-to-earth way. |

| |Should this be the case, collective security in the Asia-Pacific region will be heavily affected |

| |and there will be a power shift. |

| |If Taiwan allows President Chen Shui-bian to carry on, there will be only two possible outcomes: |

| |“One is a war of independence with China, and Taiwan will be destroyed in the battle fire. |

| |In his thinking, all those who voted for Chen Shui-bian have been manipulated by populism and all |

| |Chen Shui-nian supporters are accomplices who allow the destruction of Taiwan’s democratic |

| |politics. |

| |Britain also remains outside the eurozone and its Euroskeptics yield enormous influence. |

| |As a result, French influence would weaken and sovereignty would be lost, leading the French to |

| |believe they could not support the constitution. |

| |The issues involved should not be simplified into a tug-of-war between a free market Europe and a |

| |social Europe and it is also not a choice between a common market and political integration, he |

| |said. |

| |The ocean does not object to people entering its space, and poetry does not shy away from spiritual|

| |exploration and searching. |

| |Only in recent years, however, as the localization (Taiwanization) policy blossomed and Taiwanese |

| |identity became stronger, have we come to understand that Taiwan was not just a tiny island more |

| |than 400 years ago where “birds don’t sing, and flowers don’t smell” as the Qing Court claimed. |

| |South Korea’s level of economic development is similar to that of Taiwan and it is also sparing no |

| |effort to import skilled talent. |

| |The first is the formulation of immigration laws, the second is building an environment that |

| |attracts transnational talent, and the third is intergovernmental and inter-institutional exchanges|

| |and agreements. |

| |Among them, more than 50% of the post-doctorate research students in science and engineering at |

| |Stanford University and MIT come from outside the country (NSF/SRS, 1989). |

| |In commemoration of the Schuman Declaration made by former French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman |

| |and his adviser Jean Monnet on May 9, 1950, the European Council in Milan, Italy in 1985, named May|

| |9 Europe Day. |

| |Now, however, it appears that their hopes have again hit rock bottom, and it’s not known when we |

| |will finally be able to truly make a step forward. |

| |Mr. Lee has displayed superior performance during loan negotiations and he has demonstrated perfect|

| |control during meetings. |

| |This worries Lee. Mr. Su, has been in the loan market for two years, he has known Lee for many |

| |years, and he is one of Lee’s right-hand men who came to Don-Jin Bank with Lee. |

| |It began with an initial capital of NT$1 million, and the core business was to provide |

| |microprocessor-based solutions in the fields of automation services and production. |

| |Also, due to the rapid growth of China’s market, Unitech has actively planned its China operations |

| |and its sales networks have expanded to cover the entire greater China region. |

| |It invested factories in Xiamen first to produce automatic recognition systems and scanner products|

| |but found the political environment quite different from that of Taiwan and future changes were |

| |rather difficult to control. |

| |Wei-Yuan Wang is the Director of Business Administration Department, Shih Chien University, and |

| |Joseph Yu is a Professor of Department of Business Administration, National Chengchi University. |

| |The meger of Taishin Bank and Daan Bank was chosen because it was the first positive merger between|

| |Taiwanese banks, and because the work that was necessary to integrate the two institutions has been|

| |completed. |

| |By the end of September 2001, Taishin Bank had capital totaling 24.8 billion NTD, and Daan Bank had|

| |capital of 15.7 billion NTD. |

| |The total capital after the merger was 31.9 billion NTD, and it was estimated that their combined |

| |assets valued over 516.7 billion NTD by 2002. |

| |The total loan value at that time was 348.9 billion NTD, and the deposit value was 415.3 billion. |

| |Neither Taishin nor Daan Bank had experience in post-merger integration, and many problems arose as|

| |a result. |

| |In this new era of knowledge-based economy, more and more workers are “knowledge workers”, they |

| |cannot be managed as laborers like the old days, and the organization’s success is heavily |

| |dependent on the levels of competencies, engagement, and synergies of it’s people. |

| |The search process for the “right fit” is mutual for the organization and the candidates and the |

| |needs of both parties must be met. |

| |It is the manager’s responsibility to put the right people at the right places, create the right |

| |environment, provide clear directions, allocate appropriate tools and resources, so that people in |

| |the organization can each do their best and collectively their performance is maximized, just like |

| |the asset managers creating maximum value for their portfolios of assets. |

| |A well-managed asset portfolio will appreciate in value over time, and a good manager should |

| |maximize the collective potential value of the portfolio. |

| |Meanwhile, the existing fire and motor insurance markets were highly competitive, and price |

| |competition made it very difficult to achieve profit in this market. |

| |In 1996, after extravagant claims settlement expenses, Hartford’s insurance volume decreased |

| |rapidly and they almost completely stopped developing new insurance customers. |

| |Hartford Taiwan’s sales volume was not very big, and they did not actively develop the Taiwan |

| |market. |

| |In 1987, regulations relaxed slightly and the market opened to two American firms per year. |

| |For instance, human resource was harder to find and cost was rapid escalating. |

| |Recently the chief prosecutors at public prosecutors offices across the island were transferred and|

| |Justice Minister Morley Shih has been in office for just over a month. |

| |What prosecutors investigate does not necessarily lead to an appeal, and if there is no appeal, |

| |judges won’t have a case to handle. |

| |After Hu made his concepts for the framework of a harmonious society known, the familiar obsequious|

| |flattery from other CCP members and the official mouthpiece media began. |

| |The committee adjudicating on their grievances as well as the appeal mechanisms in place refuted |

| |the legal arguments from both sides and in the end, the two countries did not adopt trade |

| |retaliation measures. |

| |Moreover, if energy and other resources were not so easily obtainable, then demand would go down |

| |and we would have to look for substitutes or change our more excessive consumption habits to more |

| |frugal ones. |

| |Presently, the development of nuclear energy requires splitting heavy atoms, and there is always |

| |the potential threat of radioactivity. |

| |Despite the fact that there are still a few communists nations left in the world and nuclear |

| |proliferation remains a matter of international concern, communism has basically been discarded as |

| |a viable form of government and nuclear warfare is no longer the main tool or method for one nation|

| |to threaten another. |

| |Mediocrity has hindered us from breaking through while our investment in higher education and basic|

| |research has left us far behind more advanced nations, making it hard to remain competitive. |

| |Outside of Taipei City, however, other counties and cities levy garbage fees based on water rates, |

| |and residents are not necessarily able to feel any actual advantage from reduced waste volumes. |

| |Hon Hai last year had an EPS of around NT$9.5 and its PE ratio did not even reach 15. |

| |Meanwhile, the Tiananmen Incident has already faded into memory and Chinese officials even claim |

| |that “no one was killed.” |

| |Should the embargo be lifted, then collective security in the Asia-Pacific region will be severely |

| |affected and there will be a shift in the security power balance. |

| |Marking the tenth anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women in March this year, the U.N.|

| |held another conference, at which we very clearly felt that everyone kept reminding others that the|

| |outcome of the Beijing Conference ten years ago and the Millennium Development Plan must be closely|

| |interlinked, otherwise the various issues would dilute the U.N.’s limited resources. |

| |Those at higher levels are able to obtain more resources, but if they have not done a good job |

| |designing grassroots growth, and even then resources can be wasted. |

| |The Kuomintang government used suppressive measures to counter Taiwan’s farmers, and the situation |

| |became very tense. |

| |We count on being able to eat healthy food, and therefore we hope that farmers manage the land and |

| |produce healthy agricultural products, while also shaping beautiful rural scenery. |

| |Statement by a member of the audience: We have just heard Professor Huang analyze the problems of |

| |Taiwan’s agricultural population is likely less than 10 percent (of the total population), and its |

| |output value stands at roughly 1 percent or 2 percent of GDP. |

| |This female journalist has just mentioned that industrialization has destroyed Taiwan already once |

| |and I agree that we need to review that part. |

| |Age is not an original sin and every person has the right to be free from fears over age. |

| |Modern society is full of age discrimination and the labor market is most apt to highlight the |

| |severity of the problem. |

| |(There is considerable debate over) whether these gifts are good or bad, and today, we will focus |

| |our discussion on the agriculture issue. |

| |The projects that we have carried out in various countries in the past show that the surface area |

| |where projects have been promoted is limited and that for quite some time the projects were located|

| |in the same region and it was not possible to broaden their scope. |

| |Given that in recent years Taiwan’s diplomatic dilemma has been very serious and agricultural |

| |assistance has focused in the past on our diplomatic allies to consolidate diplomatic ties, |

| |contacts with countries that do not have diplomatic ties with us and expanding the scope of such |

| |contacts will become more and more important. |

| |If you read a lot of comic books when you were little and then suddenly you’re given a book with |

| |somewhat more written words, you will probably say you can’t understand, because you’re already |

| |used to reading stories that are told in pictures. |

| |In total, it is not a small budget, but with everyone trying to grab some of it, everyone gets an |

| |insufficient amount and eventually foreign funding is still needed to be able to shoot a film. |

| |One of the key reasons for this is shrinking government subsidies, and private fund-raising is also|

| |becoming increasingly difficult. |

| |We’ve discussed the larger context of social industry development and now we’ll turn to a smaller |

| |context, which are changing family and community patterns. |

| |Aside from promoting the care services industry, the government also hopes to be able to employ |

| |some middle-aged and older unemployed workers serve as care service workers to solve some of |

| |Taiwan’s unemployment problems. |

| |The right to marry is a basic individual freedom and the family is the cornerstone of social |

| |stability. |

| |But the roots of mental illnesses are very complex and only about 5 percent of cases can be |

| |addressed pathologically. |

| |But since the number of national health insurance beds in each hospital is limited and there are so|

| |many patients, you will virtually always get the answer “No” if you call a hospital to ask whether |

| |they have vacant beds. |

| |Today the outcome of “democratization” is very satisfactory, as government power has already been |

| |transferred, and there is marked progress in the degree of freedom and rule of law in the entire |

| |environment. |

| |The data recording machines are very expensive and the budget required for the card-reading |

| |machines would be even higher. |

| |MacMillian said “the wind of change is blowing through this continent, and whether we like it or |

| |not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. |

| |We must all accept it as a fact, and our national policies must take account of it.” |

| |China’s policy is a far cry from the spirit of the Holy Roman Empire over 350 years ago when it |

| |gave the power back to the people and the Pope gave nations the right of religious freedom. |

| |Countries want independence, nations want liberation and the people want revolution—this has become|

| |the irresistible trend of history. |

| |All nations, big or small, should be equal; big nations should not bully the small, and strong |

| |nations should not bully the weak. |

| |China will never be a superpower as long and it opposes hegemony and power politics of any kind. |

| |Old deserts are advancing and new ones are forming, like guerrilla forces striking unexpectedly, |

| |forcing Beijing to fight on several fronts. |

| |The reality is that globalization is challenging the dominance of states in international relations|

| |and international law from above and sub-national forces are eroding it from below. |

| |It only means that everyone goes back to the previous treaty and the process slowly starts over |

| |again.\ |

| |The ratio was very high and it looked like, on the surface, that many young people had more than |

| |one partner. |

| |The problem is supposing that a class had fifty students and one had multiple partners. |

| |In response to President Chen's public demand that KMT chairman Lien Chan report to him before his |

| |trip to the mainland, Lien said he would be visiting the mainland in the capacity of KMT chairman, |

| |and the meetings in the mainland would consist of "party-to-party communications" aimed at bringing|

| |about peace, so he didn't need the government's authorization or permission. |

| |Political parties and representative groups at the National Assembly will present their views June |

| |6 on the amendment package to the Constitution and voting will begin the following day, those |

| |chairing the assembly decided. |

| |Twenty-six delegates have been assigned to deliver speeches that day and each speaker will have |

| |seven minutes to state his or her party or group’s position. |

| |Six of the delegates are from the Democratic Progressive Party, and six are from the Kuomintang. |

| |According to IMD authorities, many respondents have begun to cast doubts on whether China’s |

| |domestic economy will continue to grow and they point out some obstacles to the country’s economic |

| |performance, including the shaky financial regime and unstable infrastructure and corporate |

| |management. |

| |Chuang Chi-wang, leader of the main opposition Kuomintang’s Kaohsiung City Council caucus, said |

| |party headquarters has not funded any campaign activities, and the council caucus has had to pay |

| |the bills for hiring campaign cars urging people to cast their votes for No.10 on the ballot – the |

| |KMT. |

| |After Chu went to the police, and the media broke the story, the blackmailer called Chu again and |

| |told him to keep quiet or he and his family would suffer the consequences. |

| |“I didn’t throw a bad pitch. He hit it well, and the ball was just inside the edge of the line into|

| |right field for a triple…(Ichiro) has got excellent hitting technique,” he said. |

| |The overlapping of Taiwanese and Japanese fishing waters has long been a source of problems, and |

| |tensions have grown in recent years. |

| |In the case of Taiwan and Japan, Japan's claim to the disputed Tiaoyutai Islands puts all of Taiwan|

| |in Japan's 200-nauti-cal-mile zone, and parts of the Japanese Ryukyu Islands are in Taiwan's. |

| |In addition to already having issued a letter of protest to the Japanese authorities, the ROG |

| |government has expressed through diplomatic channels its willingness to resume negotiations, and |

| |the Japanese have agreed to begin talks in late July. |

| |On March 28, Chen was found drowned in the fishing port of Anping, and the family later destroyed |

| |three letters he allegedly left for his wife, daughter and son, Hou said. |

| |Coastguardsmen realized a man arrested in September last year for smuggling guns and drugs was also|

| |involved in passing classified information to China and making false credit cards. |

| |Among the 251 passengers on the BR2196 flight, 140 were Taiwanese, 104 were Japanese, and seven |

| |came from other nations. |

| |A total of 33 countries voiced objection to Taiwan’s observership and another 21 spoke in favor of |

| |its joining. |

| |According to the CTWU, the absence rate yesterday was only 1.98 percent, lower than the average |

| |five percent, and no employees of the headquarters joined the strike. |

| |In an initial step toward privatization, Chunghwa Telecom began selling its stake nearly three |

| |years ago and government-owned shares have since dwindled to 67 percent. |

| |On the latest survey which only covered until 2003 on the age of first marriage and remarriage, the|

| |average age of Taiwan women for their first marriage was 27.2 years in 2003, and the average age of|

| |remarriage was 36.5 year, up 2.6 years and 2.3 years, respectively, from 1983. |

| |The images, taken from a local cable station, have been widely spread over the Internet over the |

| |past few days, and thousands of e-mails have been sent to the mailbox of Keeling Mayor Hsu Tsai-li |

| |complaining of the government’s cruelty to dogs, said Anthony Ni, a volunteer worker from ART. |

| |The governing Democratic Progress Party held a concert at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, and Vice |

| |President Annette Lu gave a speech highlighting the importance of ethnic harmony. |

| |After Chu paid the blackmailers NT$1.1 million to get rid of them, they continued to demand more |

| |money, and early on the morning of May 8, they threw a brick through the second-floor window of his|

| |family’s residence in Taoyuan County. |

| |Furthermore, the PFP suspended his party membership indefinitely, EITV took his in-depth |

| |investigative program off the air, and the injured restaurateurs have joined together to demand |

| |that Wang compensate them for damage done to their businesses and reputations or be sued for |

| |defamation. |

| |But due to the HSNI virus' high virulence, an expected 5.3 million people will be infected, over |

| |70,000 will be hospitalized, and more than 14,000 will die once the new strain of influenza erupts.|

| |In the initial stages when there are fewer cases, they plan to first mobilize the negative pressure|

| |isolation rooms set up during the SARS scare, and they don't rule out the possibility of community |

| |quarantines. |

| |Yet although no major epidemics took place, there were many reports of side effects from the |

| |vaccinations, and compensation claims led to years of litigation. |

| |Though the PFP’s position in Taiwanese politics is more tenuous, because Soong had met with |

| |President Chen Shui-bian early in the year and the two had jointly announced a ten-point consensus,|

| |observers saw Soong’s visit to China as testing the waters for a potential establishment of |

| |relations between Chen’s administration and China’s rulers, prompting much speculation. |

| |This action also showed that China’s words about “one China with each side having its own |

| |interpretation” and “two sides, one China” are empty, as the mainland…. |

| |However, all major undertakings are difficult to begin, and after taking the first step, developing|

| |a new approach while allowing both sides to negotiate with dignity and as equals still requires |

| |further reasoned discussion and bold action. |

| |If international oil prices don't come down, the CPI is unlikely to rise by less than 2%, and |

| |consumers will find that their money doesn’t stretch as far as it used to. |

| |According to the CBC, interest on one-year fixed deposit accounts is currently around 1.79%, so |

| |real interest rates remain negative and long-term real interest rates will continue to drop. |

| |More than 50,000 protesters marched in Kaohsiung and thousands gathered in Taipei, denouncing |

| |China’s planned anti-secession law and vowing to fight what they claim is Beijing’s attempt to |

| |force this self-ruled, democratic island to unify with the mainland. |

| |Hsieh pointed out that women account for only 15 percent of the Cabinet at present and major |

| |women’s rights groups have been urging the government to appoint more. |

| |This nation's constitution had been constrained by the conditions under which it was created, and |

| |though it had been amended six times during President Lee Teng-hui's term of office, it still did |

| |not suit the nation's present or future needs. |

| |The road to reform will have its obstacles, and there will be trying times ahead. |

| |President Chen said that the Chinese Communist Party still keeps a firm grip on the government and |

| |the military, but Taiwan is a democracy, and no one should put the party above the nation. |

| |He was quarantined at the Chiayi Branch of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital until late Monday evening |

| |when the fever eased, and he is now under observation in one of the hospital’s regular wards. |

| |Just days earlier, one individual died and three were hospitalized after consuming cyanide-laced |

| |energy drinks in Taichung City. |

| |People call New York “the capital city of the world,” and you can bet that it’s the world’s most |

| |competitive, too. |

| |Moreover, Wang’s performance on defense has been easy and mature, and the media and baseball |

| |commentators have strong hopes for his career in the future. |

| |Beginning in 1999, Chen Chin-feng led a string of Taiwan’s top baseball players into the American |

| |Major Leagues, and in recent year their efforts have begun to bear fruit. |

| |The 57-year-old Chiayi County resident was hospitalized two days later with abdominal pain and |

| |hypertension, and X-rays indicated he had developed pneumonia symptoms. |

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|since (因果關係) | |

| |because (222) + so (99) + so that (34) + as (93) + since (49) = 498 |

| |Sentences |

| |But because her children had left home for college and her husband was doing business in China, at |

| |the invitation of an Ilan friend she joined the festival work team, despite her ripe old age. |

| |For example, one year, because the government of one African country was taking strict precautions |

| |against the trafficking of children, the troupe was forbidden to come. |

| |"The county commissioner is constantly saying we're not to make attendance levels a promotion |

| |device or an objective, because what we're pursuing is simply quality," says Chen Teng-chin. |

| |"During the entire lecture, I didn't hear anything that the professor said, because I kept thinking|

| |about that towel." |

| |Lai has not only endured being an outsider in his own homeland, but also even being seen by some of|

| |his colleagues as a self-important malcontent-in particular because he has been able to find a work|

| |situation that allows him to remain faithful to his ideal of quality over quantity, at a time when |

| |most doctors are inundated with patients (or surgical procedures). |

| |Because his father is deaf-mute he was brought up by relatives, especially a great-aunt on his |

| |father's side, whom he calls Mama. |

| |Not long after Yung-chuan was born, his mother went back to the Philippines because she was young, |

| |loved to party and could not fit in with life in Taiwan. Yung-chuan's father, who is deaf-mute, was|

| |unable to look after him, and Yung-chuan ended up in his aunt's care. |

| |It's difficult for Yung-chuan's foster mother to find work outside the home, because she was born |

| |with a malformed right foot. |

| |Yung-chuan feels little resentment toward his biological mother, who took his younger brother and |

| |sister back to the Philippines and left him behind in Taiwan, because he has been given a new, |

| |loving mother and now has two fathers. |

| |He sometimes complains a little about that fact that because he goes to honors math class, he has |

| |to spend a lot of time solving math problems and has little time left to read fiction. |

| |He says that listening to music till he falls asleep is the best way to wind down, because the next|

| |day he wakes up refreshed and carefree. |

| |Because Yung-chuan is so good in school, his relatives and friends urge him to eventually go to |

| |medical school to repay his foster parents for all they have done for him. |

| |Because Malay is the national language, schools that teach in Malay are called "national primary |

| |schools," while the others are called "national-type primary schools." |

| |Because mainstream secondary instruction is in Malay, children of Chinese or Indian descent have to|

| |learn three languages in primary school: their mother tongue, plus Malay and English. |

| |And I couldn't be ignorant of Chinese because it's my own language." |

| |Because she worked so hard on languages as a child, she's very aware of her students' difficulties,|

| |and knows all too well how difficult secondary school will be for anyone who doesn't achieve a good|

| |grasp of Malay during primary school. |

| |Because the Malaysian government does not encourage the opening of new Chinese primary schools, |

| |this has led to "star" schools in many areas becoming full to bursting. |

| |She says most of her classmates would have liked to enroll at Tsun Jin, but their parents wouldn't |

| |let them because of the huge expense, and because it's tough to get into an independent secondary |

| |school unless your Chinese is really good. |

| |Fang Hon-kai, a scholar of Chinese education based in Kuching, writes that parents send their |

| |children to independent secondary schools because they want them to have a solid command of three |

| |languages. |

| |But because the high-tech industry is forever changing and needs the most talented people, 15 years|

| |ago he decided that he would not pass on the succession to a member of his own family. |

| |Shih says, “I’m passing the baton to my colleagues because they haven’t slaved away half their |

| |lives for someone else’s benefit. |

| |Shih explains that he has decided to make a professional manager his successor to break with |

| |tradition, and because it’s necessary. |

| |Stan Shih’s career is a mirror image of the development of Taiwan’s IT industry, not only because |

| |he is one of the most senior entrepreneurs in the sector, but also, as he says himself, because he |

| |“has suffered the most setbacks, has lost the most while learning things the hard way, and has the |

| |broadest and deepest experience in industry.” |

| |Almost all the residents at Yang-Ming are there because their families were unable to care for |

| |them. Pan Wen-chi, the deputy director of social services, points out that although some seniors |

| |arrive somewhat unwillingly, being with friends on of the same age is better than living a lonely |

| |existence at home. |

| |Because the health of each partner of a married couple is different, chances are high that each |

| |will at some pint live in a separate section, but being in the same overall facility means they can|

| |look after each other and won’t feel lonely. |

| |But his decision to not first get accreditation in Taiwan was a risky one, because Taiwan's Special|

| |Examination for Doctors of Chinese Medicine is set to become history in 2011. |

| |The adoption of positioning systems has also become essential in the current era because it |

| |overcomes problems stemming from changes in place names or unclear road signs. |

| |Because his parents were relatively older, they did not have the energy to keep up with him. |

| |Also, although the Labor Standards Act clearly stipulates that temp workers can organize a union |

| |within the temping agency they work for, because they are employed for different periods of time |

| |and are dispersed among client companies, it is difficult for them to find time to hook up with |

| |each other. |

| |That's because they know that laws always have loopholes, and that the less modem government |

| |controls, the better. |

| |If the farmers didn't provide the products, there was nothing exporters could do because there were|

| |no compulsory rights or obligations involved. |

| |Because the trees and orchard are free of disease and protective barrier tents have been raised |

| |against typhoons to prevent fruit being blown to the ground, this has been selected as an export |

| |fruit orchard. |

| |Because vegetables have a shorter shelf life than fruits, breaking into the export market presents |

| |numerous challenges. |

| |If, just because mainland China makes a big show of being nice, the main battlefield for the export|

| |of agricultural products is unceremoniously shifted to China, and expansion in the US, Japan and |

| |other important markets is neglected, then some day when China suddenly pulls the plug we will have|

| |to face the bitter consequences of an imbalance between production and sales. |

| |The Netherlands strictly prevent their varieties from going abroad and will certainly not sell a |

| |new variety to Taiwan because they worry the year after they do this, they will start seeing the |

| |Taiwan market producing and selling them, with the sellers laughing all the way to the bank," says |

| |Chu lung-chang. |

| |The trouble is that it is not readily absorbed by the body, because once it enters the intestines, |

| |it intermixes with food fiber and is then excreted in feces. |

| |Because many companies failed to do so and wanted to avoid the ever-growing financial burden of |

| |employees going into retirement, they simply declared bankruptcy or closed fact ories, which would |

| |invariably result in disputes. |

| |We don't talk about it now, probably because my little sister is still in high school. |

| |In ancient times women would often rinse their face with water that had been used to dean rice |

| |because the rice bran sterol in it helped to prevent aging of the skin. |

| |Because they are compatible with the outer keratinous layer of the epidermis, they are able to take|

| |nutrients into the skin. |

| |The problem is that even though the technology has been transferred to the private sector, industry|

| |faces a Back of raw material because there is no mass production of herbs in Taiwan. |

| |The impressive achievements of Taiwan documentaries were possible because the conditions were ripe.|

| |They felt that the films didn't make any money, because they were aimed at a miniscule market |

| |segment, so directors didn't waste their time on publicity. |

| |They even have to pay weeks of rent up front, because their poor box office showings make cinemas |

| |loath to accept commissions from box office proceeds as payment for showing documentaries. |

| |Yang Yi-che, producer of the Public Television documentary Taiwan's Student Movements, explains |

| |that not only is scraping up money difficult, advertisers for mainstream commercial movies are |

| |reluctant to invest in documentaries, because it's difficult to judge whether or not they will get |

| |any return on their investment. |

| |They really aren't suited to TV, because they focus on the details of normal, everyday life and |

| |culture. |

| |This setback is a good thing, because no matter what the latest trends, documentaries have to |

| |return to their roots. |

| |Instead, because the Japanese prefer to cut down on organic waste in their cities and ordinary |

| |consumers prefer not to hack into the pineapples themselves, most pineapples are first sent to |

| |harbor-side factories where they're peeled and packed before heading to the supermarkets. |

| |But terraces are narrow and their retaining banks thin, and because they’re so easily broken by |

| |peasants tramping across them to work the land, they can’t function effectively to block runoff. |

| |Because her children are affected by diabetes, she has devoted herself to helping other diabetes |

| |patients, and is currently the director of a diabetes support group at the Cardinal Tien Hospital. |

| |However, because the criteria for receiving subsidies are strict, no more than one-third of the |

| |diabetics in Taiwan are cared for by the more than 130 such organizations. |

| |Of course there are also loyal and loving children who are more than willing to take care of their |

| |aging parents, but 40- or 50-year-olds cannot just think about raising kids as a way to support |

| |themselves in old age because they are about to come face to face with a phenomenon very difficult |

| |to reverse—the younger population will never again outnumber the older. |

| |After a great deal of tumult, the Labor Pension Act passed in June does not, according to some |

| |labor organizations mean a way out of labor-capital disputes over pension rights because it has |

| |“moved too quickly.” |

| |Because young people have a philosophy of immediate gratification and do not yet have family |

| |responsibilities, this unrealistic, optimistic way of thinking becomes possible. |

| |Because the early symptoms of diabetes and high blood pressure are not obvious, patients may easily|

| |overlook them. |

| |Infrastructure projects cannot be hurried, because any changes require constant negotiations and |

| |dialogue with all organizations involved as well as approval from the citizenry. |

| |The plan's announcement made Huang uneasy, because the old warehouse was a rare survivor. |

| |He felt that the banks of the Ilan River would play a vital role in changing Ilan City's destiny, |

| |because once the Taipei-Ilan Expressway opened, the uninspiring old part of the city might just be |

| |relegated to catching dust. |

| |He loved taking these fix-'em-up jobs that nobody else wanted, because he wasn't just looking at |

| |the project before him. |

| |Because the Tungshan stop is under the operation of Uni-President Group, the group was able to pool|

| |into a small area all of their subsidiary companies, including Starbucks, 7-Eleven, Semeur de Pain |

| |bakery, and 21st Century Quick Service Restaurants; anything you want, you can find it there. |

| |And because they want to avoid politics and ideology, they rarely say what’s really on their minds |

| |when speaking to outsiders. |

| |But secondary processing will remain in the Pearl River Delta, because it is easier to export from |

| |there. |

| |One Taiwanese entrepreneur reveals, “If it weren’t because they are afraid that local officials |

| |might turn hostile, the Delta Electronics factory in Dongguan, which employs more than 20,000 |

| |people, might have closed down long ago.” |

| |In theory, government reform should benefit everyone, because public expenditure can be restrained |

| |and service quality can be improved as new challenges are faced. |

| |No government officials dared even visit the place, mostly because it wouldn’t win them any votes, |

| |and it would probably just have annoyed the locals if they did anyway. |

| |The high acidity of this red soil means it’s not too good for agriculture, and because the |

| |geography of the area makes it difficult to irrigate, the farmers there can only really grown |

| |drought-resistant crops like sweet potato. |

| |Because the gasoline used by motor vehicles is refilled from petroleum, and the refining process |

| |produces large volumes of carbon dioxide, reducing carbon dioxide emissions requires reduction in |

| |motor vehicle usage and increasing the energy efficiency of vehicles. |

| |Because road vehicles offer the convenience of point-to-point transport, added to low gas prices |

| |that make driving economical, the public is naturally inclined to buy and use cars. |

| |However, because local officials believe the public is used to riding motorcycles and insist on |

| |offering such parking, the county government has no good options. |

| |Because the process of burning coal or natural gas to generate electricity produces a great deal of|

| |carbon dioxide, reducing emissions will have to affect electricity usage. |

| |They are quite inefficient, because the capacity of an air conditioning system is proportional to |

| |the building's design fee, leading architects to specify excessive capacity for the air |

| |conditioning system as a way to inflate design fees, with the result that air conditioning systems |

| |typically have excess capacity of more than 30%. |

| |At the same time, because Taiwan’s buildings have a lifespan of 40 or 50 years, the impact of power|

| |savings is long-term. |

| |That is because the increases will fall most heavily on heavy energy consumers due to the |

| |progressive charge structure. |

| |Because bakeries and restaurants are "high-profile" and Children Are Us' cause is an |

| |attention-grabber, when customers think about donating to charity, they naturally think of Children|

| |Are Us first. |

| |As for the straight-combed-back shoulder-length hair that he has maintained for several decades, he|

| |says he keeps it because it's easy to take care of. |

| |From kindergarten onward he insisted on sitting next to the window in class because at least there |

| |he could see everything outside. |

| |Once in kindergarten they wanted to have some outdoor classes and the teachers broke all precedent |

| |by making a beeline to Chu's home to talk with his mother, asking that he not participate because |

| |they were afraid they wouldn't be able to control him and this would affect the outing for the |

| |other children. |

| |Chu notes that precisely because he was complete master of doing what he liked to do, this led to |

| |more and more jobs, raising the work level to impossible heights. |

| |He would rather stick to home because for him it's the carefree life that is most important. |

| |They warn us against lowering our guard because fire ants can be found down in home basements and |

| |up high in tall buildings, and are even known to build their nests on walls. |

| |Money is no object, and the more serious the illness, the more they are intent upon returning |

| |because they do not trust mainland medical technology," says Victor Chang, president of Li Shin |

| |Hospital, who has been back and forth to China often on medical exchanges. |

| |Perhaps because her daughter couldn't adapt to this change she developed stomach problems. |

| |Chu Yu-sheng deputy secretary of the Minhang District Taiwanese Friendship Association, says that |

| |in the past, because many Taiwanese were unfamiliar with medical resources in Shanghai and didn't |

| |know where to find a good doctor, they would immediately think about buying a plane ticket back to |

| |Taiwan the minute they became seriously ill. |

| |Providing good service to the huge number of patients who visit the Huashan clinic may entail some |

| |problems because the fees are so low. |

| |This frequently leads to situations where a Taiwanese patient has had a liver or kidney transplant |

| |and, because organ matching was hasty and Chinese doctors have insufficient experience in post-op |

| |complications, makes an emergency evacuation back to Taiwan. |

| |Because Taiwanese are not familiar with the Chinese medical system, stumbling upon a good doctor is|

| |a matter of luck. |

| |Because the grandfather was elderly, the Liu family was forced to accept the explanation but had to|

| |pay RMB10,000 for the four-day hospital stay. |

| |"Society's goodwill is not something to be wasted," says NTU's Lin. He believes that because NPOs |

| |are collectives rather than individual enterprises, the people working for them should not be paid |

| |"absurdly high" salaries. |

| |CFSW chairman Cao Ching says that CFSW offers salaries and benefits that are comparable to those in|

| |the public sector, but hiring staff has proved difficult because many people are uncomfortable with|

| |the thought of caring for people in vegetative states and associating with vagrants. |

| |Because the size of the pie is fixed, when the top-tier foundations take a bigger slice, the |

| |second-tier foundations are left with a smaller one. |

| |"Everyone benefits from their services, but few people support them in tangible ways, either |

| |because they lack a sympathetic victim, or because people feel it’s not their responsibility." |

| |It's because everyone has the intrinsic Buddha-nature. |

| |That's because as soon as we get anxious about something, our minds become more closed. |

| |Because their companies were small and could not take on the entire manufacturing process |

| |themselves, some steps, such as electroplating and lacquering, were outsourced to specialized |

| |factories, creating an integrated manufacturing network organized according to specialization and |

| |division of labor. |

| |But because we all travel and do business in an environment of low-price competition, we've ended |

| |up competing against each other. |

| |More than 30 years ago, the quality of the Chang Lien-cheng's instruments was excellent, and the |

| |Japanese Yamaha Musical Instruments Co. expressed an interest in going into a partnership with |

| |Chang, but the idea came to nothing because the two sides failed to reach an agreement on the |

| |apportionment of shares. |

| |It will be difficult because many governments, faced with an oligopolistic market, apply measures |

| |such as requiring increased local sourcing by manufacturing operations in their countries, or |

| |levying punitive anti-dumping duties. |

| |But because the government actually promoted mountain agriculture for half a century, now hundreds |

| |of thousands of farmers and workers in related industries depend on it for their livelihood, and |

| |there is also the question of the cultural and historic needs of Aborigines who call the mountain |

| |forests home. |

| |As one fruit farmer who is familiar with development in Lishan relates, because temperate fruits |

| |commanded high prices and yielded higher profit margins, the Aboriginal reservation land nearby was|

| |quickly exploited for orchards, and in a short time the mountain forests were transformed into |

| |fruit orchards to the fullest extent possible. |

| |Because Lishan lay in the water catchment area for the new reservoir, cultivation of slopeland of |

| |an incline of greater than 28 degrees (which is to say, in violation of regulations)—posed a severe|

| |threat to water quality and the life expectancy of the reservoir. |

| |Because competition from foreign apples would drive down prices for Lishan apples, the incentive |

| |for farmers to continue would disappear. |

| |This is because the tribal villages include both poor and well-off people, and compensation is |

| |dispensed through a complicated political and economic mechanism, as a result of which “general the|

| |money doesn’t get into the hands of poorer Aboriginal people.” |

| |Perhaps we ought to recommend that some part-time employees be covered by the LSL, because this |

| |would hopefully accommodate seniors who need to be reemployed. |

| |Wang Tung says that they chose Journey to the West as a source because the stories therein have |

| |fighting, mythology, and an exotic feel, "and with these kinds of elements you don't have to focus |

| |so much on internal drama, making them more suitable for animation. |

| |Despite looking a bit exhausted, this old cartoonist is continuing this unfinished battle, because |

| |this is a necessary change. |

| |This is because once NPOs become ubiquitous, with branches everywhere, this will create a strain on|

| |resources, resulting in a few organizations monopolizing Taiwan's social services. |

| |For one, these organizations may not be competent enough to successfully handle them, and secondly,|

| |these extra burdens actually inflict greater losses on NPOs because the government will rarely pay |

| |the full cost of such activities. |

| |Because GMFs contain genetic material from other species, they are likely to produce new allergens,|

| |and may even facilitate cross-species transmission of diseases and the destruction of the |

| |ecological balance. |

| |Now, because Japan is the largest market for Taiwan's agricultural exports and because the Japanese|

| |market is demanding that the foods it consumes be traceable, Taiwan's COA is speeding up the |

| |implementation of its own farm-to-fork system. |

| |Because contract farming tends to result in uneven product quality, Chang's most urgent need was to|

| |improve cultivation techniques. |

| |Because the association purchased the produce at guaranteed prices, farmers were able to earn twice|

| |what they would have received in compensation for leaving fields fallow. |

| |Because in recent years carbon dioxide has been the major element in the growth of greenhouse |

| |gases, the Commission on Sustainable Development has charged the EPA with including CO2 emissions |

| |as an item in its environment impact assessments (EIA). |

| |This was a huge mistake because this design had the solar panels producing electricity only half |

| |the day when the sun was shining. |

| |But actually that's not tree, because media-based marketing is just a tool. |

| |"That first decision was crucial, because all our marketing efforts that followed would focus on |

| |this core group,' says Hung` |

| |Lu Cheng-tsung decided to fly first to Thailand and establish a forward base there, because time |

| |was pressing, there was a direct flight, and it was a disaster area without rebel forces. |

| |By the evening of the 27th, Huang Shu-chuan's son, a third-year senior high school student, was |

| |sulking in his room because he was worried about his mom. |

| |Lu Cheng-tsung explains that the IHSART team did not wear masks because they did not want to impair|

| |their sense of smell, and because thanks to the sea breeze in the affected area there was no danger|

| |of breathing in pathogenic bacteria. |

| |Because decomposition had not set in, we surmised that the victims had experienced long days of |

| |terror awaiting death. |

| |Rescuers took a big risk once they reached the buildings, because they were tilting heavily, making|

| |it difficult for them to keep their balance and see straight. |

| |Sooner or later, most IHSART rescuers come into contact with putrefactive bacteria from human |

| |corpses, either because they get blood on their clothes or because they have to handle corpses. |

| |But Tseng Chiu-ping, who took part in the rescue effort following the 921 Earthquake, rues the day |

| |she went to the earthquake zone, because that day her ten-year-old son got into a car wreck that |

| |turned him into a vegetable. |

| |Because no one will take turns after him, he has to endure the explosions till the end of the |

| |ceremony. |

| |Because its decorative lawn flanked by rows of manicured trees hinders symbiosis between insects |

| |and the soil, birds don't perch on the trees. |

| |Because every brick and tile in a building can consume a lot of energy and produce pollution, |

| |cutting back on unnecessary construction can reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. |

| |Because reinforced concrete consists of 40% gravel from rivers, it is a low-cost material popular |

| |with the construction industry and ordinary house buyers. |

| |Lin notes that because as houses get old they lose half their value, the quality of building |

| |materials is poor, and people don't have a tradition of spending money on taking care of old |

| |buildings, the average life span of residential housing in Taiwan is only 45 years, far below |

| |Europe and the United States, where the average is over 100 years. |

| |Because people spend 90% of their lives indoors, it is important to examine possible root causes of|

| |medical problems, such as the building materials of homes and offices, equipment, ventilation, and |

| |lighting. |

| |Because rooftops on average get two to three times more exposure to the sun than vertical walls, |

| |top-floor residents have to contend with poor quality residential environments and tend to consume |

| |too much energy. |

| |That's because our music deals with issues of life and death, and this kind of look helps both the |

| |band and the audience get into the spirit quicker," he explains. |

| |So how on earth did this self-confessed "motley crew,' a collection of people from all walks of |

| |life, manage to create a paradise for children? |

| |"A doctor has the opportunity to do good, so if he doesn't, he'll feel guilty," says Lai. |

| |"Taiwan's health care system is already as bad as it can be, so there is no way to go but up," he |

| |says. |

| |"I hope to work very hard so that when I grow up I'll be able to go to the Philippines and bring my|

| |mommy back," said bashful 12-year-old Yen Yung-chuan on winning the fifth Presidential Education |

| |Award. |

| |So they put a bold face on it and decided to keep raising Yung-chuan. |

| |"It's the teachers who've got it toughest," says Moh Fok-choi, principal of Kuching Chung Hua |

| |Primary School No. 3, who explains that a single teacher is usually responsible for all math and |

| |science courses, regardless whether they're taught in Chinese or English, so the new system |

| |naturally adds to the teacher's workload. |

| |They both say that another language is another skill, and besides, they've been learning the |

| |languages since they were little, so it doesn't seem difficult. |

| |Written Chinese is more difficult than other languages, so children need to master it while they're|

| |young. |

| |Some friends asked her at the time what would be wrong with just letting the kids learn English so |

| |they could get local jobs. |

| |So what kind of role will the Chinese play? |

| |Stan Shih looks forty-something, so he would stay on or that his son would take over from him. |

| |Moreover, there are not that many talented people to go around, so companies have to train their |

| |own executives. |

| |Added to this was her high blood pressure and bad heart, so he just “upped and left” to go retire |

| |at Yang-Ming. |

| |Plus academically it is taught in much more depth, including studies of metabolism and immunology, |

| |and Sino-Western combined treatment methods are widely used in hospitals, so the career |

| |opportunities are much broader. |

| |Glancing at the bus stop's smart LCD display, he sees that his bus won't be arriving for another 15|

| |minutes, so he heads back into the air-conditioned confines of the MRT station to escape the heat. |

| |Many people who have traveled to Japan are amazed at the astronomical Y10,000 a couple of musk |

| |melons can fetch at a supermarket, so it's no wonder that Japan, which can afford to eat expensive |

| |fruit, has been the number-one choice as a target for Taiwan agricultural produce. |

| |But last year Japanese inspections of frozen soybeans produced in mainland China revealed too-high |

| |levels of pesticides, so Japanese buyers transferred their orders to Taiwan. |

| |In contrast, Lao-ta and Hsiao-hui have recently moved in with his parents so they can save for a |

| |down payment on their own apartment more quickly. |

| |They felt that the films didn't make any money, because they were aimed at a miniscule market |

| |segment, so directors didn't waste their time on publicity. |

| |Not only are they under pressure to produce and sell their films single-handedly, Taiwan's |

| |documentary filmmakers invest years ill producing films, so they cannot work other jobs to make a |

| |living. |

| |Documentaries can't be shown straight through without interruption, so it's hard to hold onto |

| |audiences, to keep them tuned to your program. |

| |So we still really need to promote our pineapples in the Japanese market so they can see what's so |

| |good about them. |

| |What people in one culture are used to eating can be immensely different to what those in another |

| |are used to, so the biggest problem for Taiwanese pineapples is that the big international |

| |companies that supply the Japanese market use quality control methods that are more suited to |

| |Philippine pineapples than to Taiwanese pineapples. |

| |Harvested pineapples go through a long process to get to market; first they're treated for pests, |

| |and those that get into pineapple skin cling pretty tight, so part of this process is giving the |

| |fruit a hard scrub and a hose down with pressurized water. |

| |We could hit the wall at any moment, so we've got to take each step carefully. |

| |“Young people today don't want to relocate to less developed countries, so we have to think |

| |carefully about personnel management issues when looking at new foreign investment options," Soung |

| |sighs. |

| |In diabetics, not only are pancreatic secretions severely insufficient, but they lose their ability|

| |to respond dynamically to food intake, so that the patient must rely on medication to compensate. |

| |The first is called insulin-dependent diabetes, and stems largely from a chronic autoimmune |

| |disorder that damages the betacells of the pancreas, so that they can no longer produce insulin. |

| |She would eat continually, but couldn’t sate her hunger, yet she shed five kilograms in a single |

| |month, so that looking at her in the mirror made her afraid. |

| |“Right now people should be spending all their effort at saving up human capital, raising their |

| |hireability, so that when a person goes out looking for a job he can actually get hired,” says Hsin|

| |Ping-lung. |

| |This huge change has gotten many companies in North America to thinking, why not encourage workers |

| |with a lot of seniority to choose a flexible retirement plan so their experience can be passed down|

| |and benefit the changing of the guard? |

| |In his book Inevitable Surprises: Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence (Gotham Books, 2003), the |

| |American futurist Peter Schwartz talks about how in the future older people will be managing |

| |households, so the definition of “retirement” will change once again. |

| |Having provided guidance to patients since an era when petitions had to be made and an entire |

| |family would have to beg so that a member could win the right to receive dialysis treatment, the |

| |foundation’s chief director Chang Su-Kuang has the deepest awareness of the situation. |

| |Some people criticized such practices, asserting that dialysis in Taiwan was undertaken too |

| |casually, even giving rise to suspicions that doctors might be “encouraging” patients to receive |

| |dialysis so that the doctors could obtain NHI payouts. |

| |So Peng Kai-dong was required to donate them to Taiwan’s representative office in Japan which then |

| |lent them to the NPM for a short-term exhibition. |

| |So what should be done about a situation in which the government, health care institutions, and |

| |patients lose out? |

| |When a hospital requested NT$100 from the BNHI, reimbursement was immediately discounted by 15%, so|

| |that the hospital received only NT$85. in the first quarter of this year, this was reduced further |

| |to NT$72. |

| |The jasmine flowers start to open at dusk, so harvesters have to rush about the fields in the |

| |bright afternoon sunshine to collect as many buds as possible before night falls. |

| |With the production period drawing to a close, the farmers are afraid they might not be able to |

| |make the most of the harvest by working normal hours, so they have taken to the fields earlier in |

| |the day. |

| |These trading ships would head to Lukang to do their business, and the merchants aboard started to |

| |seek out places in the area with similar water quality to their mainland homes so they could start |

| |raising fish there. |

| |At the peak of the aquaculture business, most Taiwanese were fairly strapped for cash, so the |

| |farmers would mostly raise cheap fish like grass carp and silver carp to sell as food. |

| |Mr. Chen has lived in Huatan all his life, so aquaculture was always going to be part of his life. |

| |After reflecting on the current situation—all his children and grandchildren had moved elsewhere to|

| |work in other industries, so there would be no-one to carry on the tradition—he decided to devote |

| |himself to trying to help rebuild the old farms and give them a second shot at life. |

| |People are more important than vehicles, he felt, so he proposed adding a pedestrian corridor |

| |extending from the station. |

| |It's hard to make a living when you're this idealistic and meticulous, so Huang had to depend on |

| |smaller projects to make ends meet. |

| |For instance, when the county government wanted to convert an abandoned pig farm into Hsiti's |

| |community center, Huang felt that a community center cannot exist independently of the local |

| |culture, so he divided it up into units in imitation of a traditional residential complex. |

| |So it’s not surprising that more and more companies are coming here to take a shot at the |

| |prosperous South China market. |

| |As democratization continues and the economy transforms, the government must tackle the burdens of |

| |the past, so state-run enterprises need to be gradually privatized. |

| |Now the festivals are held for tourists and are high on spectacle, so they lack a sense of shared |

| |experience and history. |

| |Life in agrarian societies is slow, so festivals present an opportunity for revelry, but do people |

| |in modem times, facing hectic work schedules and tiring commutes, need the stimulation of a |

| |festival? |

| |It was exactly the same feeling he had had as a child when he had been taken off to school, so he |

| |made the courageous and resolute decision to quit his job. |

| |She, too, was fed up with the system and wanted to get into something creative, so she left her job|

| |as well. |

| |When China Motors opened a factory in Fuzhou, the move attracted 35 of their Taiwanese suppliers to|

| |set up there too, so there is a huge ripple effect. |

| |Insect bait should be applied on sunny days around anthills, not on them, so that foraging worker |

| |ants will hopefully bring some back to the nest where it will kill queen ants living deep inside. |

| |This time a different doctor was on duty so she carefully repeated what the previous doctor had |

| |said and, lo and behold, this new doctor, a woman, angrily responded: "lust because someone else |

| |can't do it doesn't mean 1 can't. But there may be some scarring." |

| |She couldn't stand the fact that her son was in pain and getting so many needles, so she asked the |

| |doctor to use a relatively painless infusion needle common in Taiwan. |

| |I wanted to get some of the images in my mind down on canvas in paint, so I went to the art supply |

| |store and bought some materials. |

| |I kept at it for a long time but it was too frustrating so I finally gave up. |

| |Nothing is done so nothing is left undone. |

| |So if you think of creativity as a "Tao," it will be at a more spiritual, inner level, and practice|

| |is the way to lose something. |

| |Maybe everyone is too fixated on the gaining part of the equation and has forgotten about the |

| |internal practice of losing, so it's difficult for them to really shine out. |

| |So all you have to do is find a way not to be so busy and tense, and your innate wisdom will |

| |resolve many things for you. |

| |Therefore the MIRL, working with National Tsing Hua University's anechoic chamber (the walls of |

| |which absorb all sound waves, so that no echoes interfere with the sound measurements), used a |

| |timbre analyzer to test the timbre of other saxophone brands, and established a timbre database to |

| |be consulted by Houli manufacturers for comparative purposes. |

| |So the government called on retired veterans to begin growing crops in the mountains, both to |

| |supply the road construction project and also to help develop new food sources for then food-short |

| |Taiwan. |

| |Most of this land is of moderate slope, so there are no concerns about landslides. |

| |So why were Lishan farmers considered in a lower class? |

| |“The stood to lose everything they had and get nothing in return, so of course they were opposed,” |

| |says Li Pao-lien. |

| |The problem is that these land rental deals were illegal from day one, so farmers could not justify|

| |themselves on these grounds; instead, they simply turned up the volume on their other claims. |

| |So it is necessary to learn how to find consensus with people who have different opinions from |

| |oneself—that’s the only way to collectively work out a path to sustainable development. |

| |But then the two decided to join forces and make a change, so Wang Tung brought his years of |

| |experience in film to WFP and took up a position as producer and director, responsible for setting |

| |WFP on the road to self-sufficiency. |

| |The big difference between contract work and self-production is production time--with the former, |

| |the script and characters have already been set by the contracting company, so a single film can |

| |take as little as six months to complete; however, the profits for the work are small. |

| |Plus it's not hamstrung by cultural differences, so there's no need to spend time on explanatory |

| |stuff, making it easier to sell abroad. |

| |"For a high-spec piece of animation, three years is too much of a rush, and we were a bit short of |

| |funds, so I wouldn't say we're entirely satisfied with the outcome." |

| |Wu Wei-chang, a senior WFP director, also notes that this is, after all, WFP's first production |

| |entirely done in-house, so of course they'll use what the audience is most familiar with and the |

| |style they're most acquainted with. |

| |Several people have in their control a number of NPOs, so that they can easily get assistance, |

| |including financial assistance, from the government. |

| |After this success, it seemed that that particular mission was accomplished, so many members moved |

| |into positions working directly for the government, making the shift from critics and watchers to |

| |implementers. |

| |Non-profit organizations in Taiwan are still growing and there are many problems to yet to be |

| |overcome, so they need the concern and investment of the people. |

| |At any rate, the island's domestic production is insufficient to meet demand, so we import NT$1.8 |

| |billion in spuds every year from the US, the Netherlands and Germany. |

| |Moreover, the cost of setting up farm-to-fork systems in the Japanese market is coming down, so the|

| |outlook for profit growth appears bright. |

| |So it's like a balloon. |

| |How should they hold the bluefin so that it wouldn't slip out of their grasp? |

| |We have to make it so that Tungkang is not just a fishing village, but a destination for |

| |discovering fishing culture," Hung says. |

| |"Donating money to an NPO is an investment rather than simple charity," explains Chang, "Everyone |

| |spends money on insurance, so why not get right down to the foundation of things, invest in the |

| |society, and improve the environment?" |

| |The private festivals were more concentrated as well, so tourists could see more of them. |

| |Handan is said to hate the cold, so people throw firecrackers at him to warm him up, believing that|

| |the more firecrackers you throw, the better your financial fortune in the new year. |

| |Another jokes, "Holding out for three minutes hurts, and holding out for ten does too, so you might|

| |as well harden yourself and keep it up for a while for appearances." |

| |Banyan leaves are traditionally said to ward off evil, but here the branch is used by the Handans |

| |to block firecrackers, protect their eyes, and wave the smoke from their faces so they can breathe.|

| | |

| |In Fengshen Yanyi, a book describing Chinese gods, it is said he was a brave general and also a |

| |savvy businessman, so he is called the "Martial God of Wealth." |

| |But Chang was ambitious, so he would start work an hour early to learn new skills, and then hang |

| |around until midnight. |

| |Traditionally, it is prepared by first frying onions, then adding garlic and pepper, stir-frying |

| |briefly before flambeing with brandy, so that the alcohol is driven off but the scent retained, and|

| |finally adding a broth made by simmering bones with spices for a day. |

| |Their water fills the pan, so that if you then add the garlic, no mater how you saute them, you |

| |won't be left with any aroma. |

| |As spring draws to a close in April, people start bringing out over 100 quilts to dry in the sun at|

| |National Ilan University, the international dormitory for the festival. |

| |Chen Feng-chu takes great comfort in Yung-chuan's all-round excellence, but she can't help worrying|

| |that as she and her husband become infirm with age, they will be unable to support his further |

| |studies. |

| |In her opinion, as the country develops and progresses, the economic clout of the Malays will grow,|

| |and their self-confidence will grow with it. |

| |This is all very costly, but as incomes rose, seniors gradually opened up to the idea of |

| |independent living, and after two years of operation. |

| |As their work grew in scope, however, Chu made an appeal for volunteer translators on the Web. |

| |As a university diploma has decreased in value, many students have chosen to remain in school and |

| |do a fifth and sixth year before they sit for graduate school exams and increase their |

| |competitiveness in the workplace. |

| |As Taiwan agricultural products go on sale worldwide and break into overseas markets, hopes of |

| |introducing the Taiwan brand name to the world should be accompanied by overflowing purses for the |

| |Taiwan farmer. |

| |The story of Fengtien's immigrants moved into a new chapter, as the area became populated 75% by |

| |Hakka and 25% by immigrants of Fujianese descent. |

| |As they gradually disappear, the story of the immigrant village may be disappearing with them. |

| |After martial law was lifted in 1987, documentaries broke the mainstream media's grip on society, |

| |as they bore witness to the changes taking place in that historical time. |

| |As their political role faded, documentaries in the 1990s focused on recording images and sounds of|

| |this land and its people. |

| |Documentaries are faced with unprecedented challenges as they strive to break into the mass market.|

| | |

| |Directors have long dreamed of documentaries being shown in commercial theaters and on TV, but as |

| |this dream approaches realization, they are faced with a tug-of-war between their ideals and |

| |reality. |

| |Then in the 1980s, as the government turned their attention south, TPC's pineapples made their way |

| |to Indonesia, but the plantation there suffered after the sudden coup in the 1990s and staff were |

| |pulled out. |

| |As more advanced medications became available, her diabetes was increasingly brought under control.|

| | |

| |As it occurs most often in children, it is also called juvenile onset diabetes. |

| |When her children were small, she relates, she almost never got a good night’s sleep, always on |

| |edge as she monitored the children for the sweating or spasms that might signal low blood sugar, |

| |prompting her to feed them sugar to prevent them going into a coma. |

| |As JetPrint doesn't have the originals on hand, they call in experts from the museum to examine |

| |each reproduction. |

| |Taiwan also has the highest incidence of ESRD, as more than 8,000 additional people require this |

| |treatment each year. |

| |Time is of the essence in making this tea, as the producers need to be quick to use the flowers |

| |while their fragrance is at its strongest. |

| |On occasion, however, it shows some innovation as it tries to stay in step with the times. |

| |As democratization continues and the economy transforms, the government must tackle the burdens of |

| |the past, so state-run enterprises need to be gradually privatized. |

| |As the ruling party is not the majority, policy implementation requires communication and |

| |negotiation, and thus will take more time. |

| |However, the BOC, which was passed in June on a bipartisan basis, is a good start, as the |

| |opposition party has demonstrated its determination to reshape the government. |

| |At the moment, recent arrivals who have moved to the area ready to take up jobs at the science park|

| |are having to vie with students of neighboring Tunghai University for apartments, and it’s clear to|

| |see that in the next few years, as the park continues to grow, there will be an astonishing number |

| |of people moving to the both traffic and business opportunities. |

| |As consumers face a rapidly deteriorating situation, he asks: "Do they want to rain the environment|

| |and finally destroy themselves alongside the environment, or do they want to be the environment's |

| |savior? |

| |Furthermore, as the festivals are mostly publicly run, their lifespans are tied to the careers of |

| |politicians, and lack the stability of traditional festivals. |

| |As he has gradually gotten older, however, Chu has grown rather fond of that time just after going |

| |to bed when you get a bit groggy. |

| |As people grow, they show some of their life's problems, quests, and answers in their works. |

| |As the LCD flat panel industry takes the baton from the silicon wafer OEMs, becoming the new fount |

| |of Taiwan hi-tech prowess, those questions have many people breathless with anticipation. |

| |As the global NPO situation becomes more competitive, the bigger NPOs keep growing and pulling in |

| |more and more resources, while the smaller ones face the opposite, finding it ever harder to |

| |survive. |

| |As the management part of an NPO grows larger and salaries increase, this not only leads to the |

| |threat of bureaucratization, but also can force organizations to compromise themselves due to being|

| |too top-heavy. |

| |As the economy continues to develop, the balloon will expand a bit, but it won't burst. |

| |The first time he took part in a rescue operation, Yang had to carry a corpse wrapped in whatever |

| |he could find, as there were no sealable body bags in those days. |

| |One experienced Handan recalls the feeling of being blasted with firecrackers as a lonely one, as |

| |he couldn't see or hear what was going on around him, only persevering through faith in Handan. |

| |I also knew I'd have to learn English since it's the international language. |

| |Since the Chinese New Year cross-strait relations have been at a low point, and agricultural |

| |products have become an object of the frequent push and pull of diplomacy. |

| |The jeep is a bit old, and is covered with mud inside and out, since no-one bothers to clean them |

| |anyway. |

| |Otherwise, people will take the attitude that since reform is not going be implemented, they need |

| |only go through the motions without any commitment to success. |

| |“The artistic community I originally envisioned is still a way off, since my ideal was for art |

| |studios to prosper here, but at the moment there are more restaurants than studios, which is just |

| |kind of superficial and too consumer oriented,” laments Pai. |

| |Since the earth of the Tatu Mountains is so iron rich and easily oxidized, it has taken on a |

| |reddish hue. |

| |Since building in the restricted zone is prohibited, the area is virtually an oasis, which was one |

| |of the factors in deciding to establish the Taichung Metropolitan Park in the area. |

| |At the book launching a reporter asked how it was possible for Chu to depict the office-worker |

| |psyche so thoroughly, since he himself had not really worked much at all. |

| |Perhaps because medicine has always been young people's first choice as a field of study, the |

| |profession is home to many of Taiwan's most able people, and therefore it should naturally have a |

| |deeper ability for self-reflection and greater expectations of itself. |

| |Perhaps because their language education is so diverse in the six years of primary school, the |

| |majority of children do not speak Chinese very graciously or very fluently. |

| |But the nation and people of Taiwan have been overloaded like few others in the world today, |

| |because Taiwan has had to battle at close quarters with China, the world's newest and fiercest |

| |industrial titan; Taiwan's industries faced obstacles that make transforming and upgrading |

| |difficult; and over the past 20 years, mantras like "be the best in the world" and "no pain, no |

| |gain" have conditioned them. |

| |But more important is that electricity, and especially water, are cheap, so people waste them. |

| |But you're in unfamiliar territory with no information about the place, so you chicken out. |

| |So you can imagine that after tasting the joy of being able to look up whatever takes their fancy |

| |whenever they want, a lot of these folk latch onto the idea regardless of cost. |

| |Cars weren't permitted inside the grounds, and the shuttle bus only made one trip per hour, so you |

| |just had to wait there in the sun, steaming. |

| |As the state of doctor-patient relationships has declined over recent years, the doubts and |

| |accusations aimed at doctors from all quarters are finally prompting a movement for reform from |

| |within the medical world itself. |

| |More frighteningly, as the effects of global warming become ever more apparent, extremes of |

| |drought, flood, cold and heat will only increase. |

| |In fact, today even the "honey" we enjoy is tinged with bitterness: as oil prices continue to |

| |climb, the cost of running the family car keeps on mounting, as do the household bills. |

| |Regrettably, what has been by and large a fair and balanced system has been perceived rather |

| |negatively in recent time, partly because more companies are adopting an aggressive strategy to go |

| |after infringers now that they are aware of the importance and value of their intangible assets and|

| |partly because many consumers are taking advantage of easy and fast reproduction methods to obtain |

| |free products of others, thanks in part to the advancement of technology, and are reluctant to pay.|

| |The underlining arguments can be summed up in this fashion: that the product is either too |

| |expensive or not worth the “real” value, yet because it is nevertheless a necessity in our daily |

| |lives, there is really no other choice but to find ways to get it for free or very little, if at |

| |all possible. |

| |Regardless of being at the manufacturing or consuming end, no matter how expensive a product is, |

| |piracy is forever an act of theft and can never be justified simply because we want it, like it or |

| |need it. |

| |Some businessmen choose to stay away from strategic alliances because they believe they require |

| |surrendering control and partnering with someone they don’t know well. In fact, all of the above |

| |are partially correct. |

| |Because Hartford had limited capital and human resources, it was necessary to direct resources and |

| |design products to satisfy a more focused target market. |

| |Because contract renewal rate is a key indicator of an insurance company’s sales potential, |

| |Prudential’s performance indicates that customers have approved its products and services. |

| |I do this precisely because Hwang Himself assigns a very special position to his book, which allows|

| |me to see the thin line separating ideology and social science that is so easily overstepped. |

| |Under the strange definitions of “How Populism Destroyed Taiwan” only the fanning of Taiwanese |

| |populism and identity is called populist, while anything else such as appeals to a Greater China, |

| |one-China, and “Long Live the Republic of China” are not populist because they don’t cater to |

| |Taiwanese nationalism, even if they all similarly appeal to people, appeal to emotions and appeal |

| |to irrationality. |

| |Because they are tense and anxious over final exams and end-of-term reports, young people party |

| |wildly in May. |

| |It is because the ocean itself is great poetry and is the home for much neglected poetry. |

| |I think if people in ordinary democracies see this law they probably wouldn’t need to do much |

| |thinking to realize what the main problem is with it, because it violates the individual right to |

| |free choice guaranteed in free democratic societies. |

| |Because he was given VIP treatment when visiting China, it seemed to be right that he went. |

| |The meger of Taishin Bank and Daan Bank was chosen because it was the first positive merger between|

| |Taiwanese banks, and because the work that was necessary to integrate the two institutions has been|

| |completed. |

| |Because foreign consultants were unfamiliar with Taiwanese culture and merger & acquisition |

| |regulations, they were only helpful in such areas as integration structure; timing control, |

| |business integration planning and risk control skills, and were unable to effectively resolve |

| |employee disputes. |

| |Because Hartford had limited capital and human resources, it was necessary to direct resources and |

| |design products to satisfy a more focused target market. |

| |Because contract renewal rate is a key indicator of an insurance company’s sales potential, |

| |Prudential’s performance indicates that customers have approved its products and services. |

| |Indeed, Liu only knows to move stones, to pick stones, because stones are the farmer’s natural |

| |enemy. |

| |There is no reason for Chinese society to get excited yet, because there is nothing historic ally |

| |new about the CCP spewing democratic slogans. |

| |They took to the streets because the credibility of the Ukrainian presidential election was clearly|

| |problematic after heavy interference from Russina President Vladimir Putin. |

| |Perhaps because the government devoted sufficient firepower to media campaigns, it is hard to find |

| |fault with the environmental ideal of “zero waste” or “reuse of kitchen waste.” |

| |As for “garbage fee” calculation methods adopted by governments at all levels, residents of Taipei |

| |City, which calculates fees based on the number of dedicated trash bags used, can partially save on|

| |costs for garbage removal and disposal because the free recycling of kitchen waste allows them to |

| |cut down on the use of trash bags. |

| |Looking back, some historian couldn’t help but lament, had Dr. Fleming sought for patent or |

| |intellectual property protection, things could have been quite different, as other researchers and |

| |pharmaceutical companies would have a much stronger incentive to engage in research and development|

| |so that many lives could have been saved earlier in the war. |

| |The system uses what we called “public disclosure” or “public notice” to encourage the disclosure |

| |of ideas and thoughts so that others do not need to reinvent the wheel. |

| |A foreign company has approached him, so what can I say? |

| |“Worst of all, the best person to carry out the plan is leaving so please send someone over as soon|

| |as possible,” Hsiao said. |

| |Information Management Mechanism: FIC designs an information management system that enables each |

| |manufacturing site to upload data to the headquarter, for the ease of consolidation and analysis; |

| |it places all management policies on the intranet so that new hires can quickly access company |

| |regulations, making management policies globally consistent. |

| |But what people still care most about, now that the Democratic Progressive Party and the People |

| |First Party have reconciled, is whether they will be truly able to realize the concept of |

| |“symbiosis” so that public policies that benefit peoples’ lives will no longer be boycotted and our|

| |entire people can see the politicians roll up their sleeves to “work hard” and solve the |

| |bottlenecks of a political system that “goes nowhere.” |

| |I never quite understood what this alliance advocates or opposes, so I went to the book shop and |

| |bought Professor Hwang Kung-kuo’s book “How Populism Destroyed Taiwan.” From Chinese proverb |

| |“reading is always beneficial.” |

| |After the Maastricht Treaty, the European integrationists proposed one integration bill after the |

| |other so that even the European currencies have virtually been unified. |

| |Taishin Bank had 51 branches and Daan Bank 38, so the total number of branches after the merger was|

| |89. |

| |Managers need to really treat and manage their people as most important assets, so that they can |

| |engage their people’s hearts and minds with clear vision, values and strategies, and maximize the |

| |collective performance and potential of their people. CEOs and his/her top management team must |

| |visibly demonstrate their personal conviction in this and lead by example. |

| |It is the manager’s responsibility to put the right people at the right places, create the right |

| |environment, provide clear directions, allocate appropriate tools and resources, so that people in |

| |the organization can each do their best and collectively their performance is maximized, just like |

| |the asset managers creating maximum value for their portfolios of assets. |

| |The difference is that people has feelings, so the manager not only has to engage his/her people |

| |rationally, but also emotionally, so as to win both their minds and their hearts, and then they |

| |will be willing to go the extra mile in achieving the organization’s vision and objectives. |

| |They generously passed on their knowledge to the Bunun people so that the two sides also maintained|

| |friendly relations without encroaching on each other. |

| |Looking back, some historian couldn’t help but lament, had Dr. Fleming sought for patent or |

| |intellectual property protection, things could have been quite different, as other researchers and |

| |pharmaceutical companies would have a much stronger incentive to engage in research and development|

| |so that many lives could have been saved earlier in the war. |

| |As the industry developed, the trend of “big becomes bigger” took hold of the market. |

| |Lo was confused as he thought the human resources department had long decided those overseas |

| |appointments. |

| |“The company is growing need of R&D people who are willing to work overseas as we have been |

| |expanding aggressively in recent years” Chen said. |

| |As world markets have become more integrated, distances shortened, technology more complex, |

| |consumer demands more stringent, and time more important, CBSAs have been seen as the best (and in |

| |some cases, only) way to facilitate an organization’s strategic thrusts. |

| |Actually, there are still loopholes in the EU arms embargo against China, as it only bans “major |

| |weapons platform” items such as (military) aircraft, naval vessels and lethal items such as heavy |

| |machine guns and missiles. |

| |Only in recent years, however, as the localization (Taiwanization) policy blossomed and Taiwanese |

| |identity became stronger, have we come to understand that Taiwan was not just a tiny island more |

| |than 400 years ago where “birds don’t sing, and flowers don’t smell” as the Qing Court claimed. |

| |In the 1990s the “brain drain” that Taiwan experienced early on, as people left for studies abroad,|

| |turned into a “brain gain, “ which crucially propped up the high development of Taiwan’s |

| |information industry in the 1990s. |

| |And as Chen gradually lost the initiative in cross-strait relations, he has become a weakling and |

| |was thus wrong. |

| |As Hartford Insurance lacked local car dealership and bank channels to sell their motor and fire |

| |insurance products, they had to develop new products that did not yet exist in the insurance market|

| |to attract customers through innovation. |

| |As the Taiwan economy grows, there is still a lot of room for development in the Taiwanese |

| |insurance market, especially for more intricate commercial insurance products. |

| |But as the population grew, food became increasingly insufficient, and the Bunun people went into |

| |the woods to search for new sources of food. |

| |But as subsidy measures distort the effects of international trade, steps were taken in the Uruguay|

| |Round Agreements to bring about balanced subsidy agreements among WTO member nations. |

| |As the two sides are still far apart a resolution in the short-term seems impossible. |

| |As Taiwan is an island separated from other countries by huge bodies of water, we would then have |

| |to rely on solar, wind and geothermal power as well as wood and timber. |

| |Simply put, as Taiwan is only a small island, it cannot bear the burden of a large population. |

| |Alumni evaluations would be most accurate, as graduates are able to say which professor offered |

| |them the most benefit in preparing for the trials and tribulations of the work place. |

| |It is relatively easy to evaluate the quality of academic research, as we can judge the quality and|

| |volume of articles, theses and other written works. |

| |The quality of academic work can be seen through the eyes of both domestic and overseas experts, as|

| |outstanding scholars are frequently invited to give talks at symposiums and seminars, while |

| |receiving numerous awards and honors. |

| |First, kitchen waste is not like industrial products such as used batteries or paper, as it can |

| |decompose and nourish various kinds of organic matter, including contagious pathogens. |

| |She has an in-depth understanding of and know-how with credit assessments as she has helped Lee to |

| |undergo many difficult projects. |

| |It was the second-largest credit card-issuing bank in Taiwan, and was a leader in the insurance |

| |sector as it maintained an excellent team of professional managing staffs. |

| |However, it was difficult for exchange student to find jobs since the main language there was |

| |Spanish. |

| |While presently nine EU countries including Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, and Spain, |

| |have approved the constitution, Danes are likely to reject it in September referendum since there |

| |are many “Euroskeptics” in Denmark. Denmark once rejected the Treaty on European Union (also known |

| |as the Maasticht Treaty) and up to today refuses to adopt the European currency, the euro. |

| |Finally, since Germany will likely hold general elections in September, Britain is already |

| |preparing to call a temporary summit in late October to discuss the future of the EU in bid to |

| |settle the current “constitutional” crisis. |

| |Engineers and technicians, who become transnational migrants, are usually called “economy class |

| |travelers,” since their transnational migration is mainly caused by changing demand and supply in |

| |the (global) labor market. |

| |Scholars and scientists, who become transnational migrants, are usually called “missionaries,” |

| |since their transnational migration is commonly not caused by economic factors, but by individual |

| |ideals and intentions. |

| |Entrepreneurs, who become transnational migrants are usually called “explorers,” since although |

| |entrepreneurs have funds and a business concept, they still face plenty of risks when launching |

| |commercial activities overseas. |

| |Since the period of our democratization has been very short, we have not been able to lay a sound |

| |foundation for the movement of democratic thinking. |

| |But since we see him as a strongman, we think that he is right. |

| |In other words, since our democratization process lacks grassroots in terms of dissemination of |

| |cultural thinking, we have very strong suspicions about democracy. |

| |Also since the media thirst for blood, legislators never get tired of grandstanding even more. |

| |Since bicycles manufacturing has the characteristics of a central satellite industry, Giant plays a|

| |pivotal role in the success and leadership of this industry. |

| |But since most people involved in this organization are practicing law, its reform propositions are|

| |all professional. |

| |Since the dwarf people had been living in the forests for a long time, they had accumulated quite |

| |abundant knowledge about hunting and gathering food, cooking, and even the use of hot springs. |

| |It is certain that the French leadership has already taken a heavy blow since voters rejected the |

| |EU Constitution. |

| |But since they were also not completely identical, the two sides also kept clashing with each other|

| |throughout history, dividing up territory, reconciling, and redrawing national borders. |

| |If this statement is tenable, then the three (Sino-U.S.) joint communiques should also be |

| |abolished, because the last joint communique, the so-called August 17 Communique of 1982, was |

| |hammered out eight years before the EU imposed its arms embargo on China. |

| |It argues that France’s idea to team up with China and develop multilateral diplomacy could only |

| |exist because the U.S. for a long time has used its military strength, such as the North Atlantic |

| |Treaty Organization (NATO), to intervene in conflicts such as the ethnic clashes on the Balkan |

| |Peninsula. |

| |In fact, these two are not at all mutual exclusive, but can strengthen each other, because gender |

| |mainstreaming work has some prerequisites, namely that traditional differently oriented work be |

| |well developed – for instance that all government departments establish an appeals committee on |

| |equal opportunities and anti-discrimination. |

| |This is because the law states that Taiwan nationals should affix a fingerprint when obtaining an |

| |identification card, but the current Executive Yuan policy is for everyone in Taiwan to acquire new|

| |cards as of July 1st, 2005. |

| |This is because the government wants everyone to have ID cards, so it wrote the stipulation as law.|

| | |

| |This seemed interesting to me, because if you haven’t done anything wrong, why should you give the |

| |government your fingerprint? |

| |This is because national identity is not predicated on the Household Registration Law, but rather |

| |on pertinent nationality laws. |

| |For instance, if you ask Taiwan’s present residents where their “motherland” is, you will |

| |immediately touch the sensitive nerve of a split personality, because “Taiwan-born Japanese |

| |soldiers” for example clearly sacrificed themselves for the “country of Japan.” |

| |If the selected products are truly useful products, then they should be easy to promote because |

| |there are economic incentives. |

| |Over the past four or five years we have placed a greater focus on lobbying the European countries,|

| |mainly because Europe is a place where democracy is developed so that for them the topic of human |

| |rights is somewhat more easily understood. |

| |However, we later discovered that the difficulties were almost of the same dimensions, because if |

| |you lobby non-governmental organizations, most people will express sympathy and will also agree |

| |that Taiwan should join the WHO. |

| |But when it comes to their foreign ministries, you will run into a brick wall, because what they |

| |talk about is national interest and not international justice. |

| |After the vote, the EU explained its vote, saying there was no way it could support Taiwan because |

| |it supports the one-China policy. |

| |Some say because this group of directors has shot a bunch of films that we can’t understand. |

| |If you read a lot of comic books when you were little and then suddenly you’re given a book with |

| |somewhat more written words, you will probably say you can’t understand, because you’re already |

| |used to reading stories that are told in pictures. |

| |He said that he has watched numerous films and that over many years his movie-watching experience |

| |was to sit there and have someone else turn the pages of the book for him, because these movies |

| |were too similar, too safe, they had not a single point at which they broke the mold. |

| |Many people who want to shoot movies, start with commercials before they have enough money and |

| |personal connections (to shoot films), because Taiwanese cinema per se does not have a systematic |

| |form. |

| |Because up to today culturally the entire society has instilled in us that we should accept |

| |Hollywood and globalization stuff. |

| |Beside that, the current national film funding is not a very well developed system, because it only|

| |provides monetary subsidies. |

| |He attracted widespread attention, because his playwriting was quite good. |

| |Since 2000, this method no longer works, because everyone hopes that governments can be scaled down|

| |more and more and does not want to see them become employers. |

| |Moreover, in the past the unemployed were likely also cared for by their families, because when |

| |people lost their jobs in the big cities, they went back to their homes in the countryside to plant|

| |mandarin oranges. |

| |They hope they can have full control over the money in the fund because dealing with government |

| |agencies is a frustrating experience. |

| |In contrast, the old “authoritarian” government was often high-handed, but had a guilty conscience |

| |when suppressing human rights, because it lacked democratic legitimacy. |

| |We should also carefully watch lawmakers because they set the law. |

| |In fact, among cases of marital violence, there is a quite high ratio of women who are battered |

| |because they found out that their husbands were cheating on them or because they do not want to |

| |accede to their philandering husbands’ demand for a divorce, while there are few cases where the |

| |husband is beaten because the woman has an extramarital affair. |

| |In a broad definition of non-military threats to security, the global proliferation of infectious |

| |disease is included, because it is a direct threat to the survival and welfare of citizens in both |

| |developed and developing countries. |

| |This form of moral authority is developing because specific private actors, particularly NGOs, are |

| |shouldering responsibilities that other actors, including state actors, no longer wish to take on. |

| |Human society today is able to prosper and be civilized because it is a diverse society. |

| |Assuming one would want to undertake such an integration project if the European countries were not|

| |democratic state, then it would probably turn into a big disaster, because it would likely be a |

| |forced process. |

| |European culture was a very important factor in enabling cinematography to become a major media |

| |form during that period, because due to the breadth and width of European culture per se and its |

| |nurturing and promotion of film, it became a very important driving force in film festival |

| |development. |

| |1989 is a very important milestone for Taiwanese cinema, because director Hou Hsiao-hsien won a |

| |Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for “City of Sadness.” |

| |For us the premiere can actually be a cruel experience, in particular at the Cannes film festival, |

| |because they have not changed the design of the seating over all these years. |

| |The BBC can have these standards because it’s a public enterprise, but most of the other media |

| |outlets in Taiwan have taken their cue from the U.S. and allow the market to take control. |

| |Many old reporters are getting out, because we have seen the changes in the entire media |

| |environment; reporters are losing their value as reporters. |

| |It seems hard for the media to impose self-discipline because, like the professor just mentioned, |

| |it’s a market-oriented environment; everyone’s sense of morality in this case is restricted by the |

| |environment. |

| |International hot money around this time also heavily speculated in Hong Kong-listed Chinese state |

| |enterprise stocks so that the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index soared from 1,989 points to 5,440 |

| |points within a year, registering a 173.5 percent rise, performing only slightly worse than |

| |Thailand’s stock market. |

| |By last year, hot money mainly speculated in raw materials so that prices for crude oil, gold, and |

| |precious metals went up. |

| |First, Taiwanese stocks have seen a quite long decline of eight, nine months so that shares have |

| |found their homes for the time being. |

| |An influx of foreign hot money can be expected so that Taiwan could become the most eye-catching |

| |stock market. |

| |Even if gender mainstreaming is called “mainstream,” and from the beginning a lot of money was |

| |spent to create momentum so that gender mainstreaming temporarily attracted a lot of attention, |

| |we’ll probably have to start again from scratch after the government changes in two or three years,|

| |if we lack detailed planning. |

| |This is because the government wants everyone to have ID cards, so it wrote the stipulation as law.|

| | |

| |But those who are asking for my fingerprint are using the reverse hypothesis; they are assuming I |

| |may commit a crime, so they need my fingerprint. |

| |I cannot say that I have had a spotless record for decades so you have no reason to presume I am a |

| |criminal and demand my fingerprint. |

| |Atypical phenomenon in the agriculture of developing countries is that usually there is no way to |

| |sell products that were produced in excess of what is needed for self-sustenance so that products |

| |are left to rot in what is a regrettable waste (of resources). |

| |Luckily Geneva is in a democratic country, so we were able to get into the venue after giving some |

| |general explanations. |

| |Over the past four or five years we have placed a greater focus on lobbying the European countries,|

| |mainly because Europe is a place where democracy is developed so that for them the topic of human |

| |rights is somewhat more easily understood. |

| |Hollywood movies have spread over the world so that everyone is used to watching these kinds of |

| |movies. |

| |From sexual behavior, to career development and school life there are countless laws disciplining |

| |youth, but the crowding out effect on corresponding budget and resource allocation is nonetheless |

| |most severe, so that in professional discourse, youth in the end become the most easily labeled and|

| |most easily stigmatized group in our work. |

| |They will say this is mainstream public opinion, so don’t say anything. |

| |To cite an example: many women do not understand protective orders clearly enough, so they think |

| |that a protective order works like a magic amulet that must only be worn on the body or placed in |

| |the home to be safe and sound and carefree. |

| |As the NT dollar shows increased momentum to appreciate, Taiwanese stocks in contrast look |

| |attractively priced. |

| |As Asia’s entire strategic and power structure is in the process of changing, on which side should |

| |we stand after all? |

| |Gender mainstreaming is a process of deepening democracy, as it emphasizes that those in power must|

| |continuously seek and include the opinions of women at all levels from the grassroots to the elite |

| |and should not make decisions behind close doors. |

| |This makes the initiative purely an Executive Yuan policy, as it was not passed by the Legislative |

| |Yuan. |

| |This has to do with basic human rights, as the government should respect the rights of the |

| |individual. |

| |Today the outcome of “democratization” is very satisfactory, as government power has already been |

| |transferred, and there is marked progress in the degree of freedom and rule of law in the entire |

| |environment. |

| |As human rights and freedom become increasingly obscure in this era, we must do some soul-searching|

| |as to what the freedoms are that liberalism treasures after all. |

| |MacMillian’s “wind of change “ cannot be seen or heard in China, as Beijing continues to suppress |

| |Tibetan independence and forces the Dalai Lama to live in exile in India. |

| |(At its summit) in Rome in 2004 the EU adopted the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe, |

| |but this does not mean that the adoption of the European Constitution has been completed as it must|

| |still be sent back to the member countries for approval by referendum. |

| |You are probably familiar with this way of putting it, as this is what Lee Teng-hui was talking |

| |about when he said he discovered that the latter half of his life was not about Lee Teng-hiu, |

| |meaning a Lee Teng-hui that does not belong to “the smaller self Lee Teng-hui,” but to the “the |

| |bigger self Lee Teng-hui.” |

| |In the 1930s, after the establishment of the Venice Film Festival, cinematographic development |

| |boomed as it went through several very important European film movements. |

| |Taiwanese cinema changed peoples’ impression about “made in Taiwan,” as it does not represent |

| |inferior quality, and even less counterfeit products. |

| |As everyone here has studied journalism, we all know that the two basic principles of newsgathering|

| |are “accuracy” and “impartiality.” |

| |Since the Cold War is now over, this law must be abolished, he argues. |

| |You will find that since taking office he has announced numerous amendments to Articles 9 of the |

| |Constitution, since under the old law it was not possible to pay salaries to Japanese troops who |

| |carry out military actions overseas and not possible to imprison captured war criminals. |

| |Just paying lip service is not enough, since China also says that it stands on the side of |

| |democracy, freedom, and justice. |

| |But since now the U.S. is the only superpower, there should be a force containing the U.S., (they |

| |think.) |

| |Second, China believes that it is very simple for it as a big power to clean its slate of the |

| |Tiananmen Incident, in particular since it is a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council. |

| |Since the U.S. and Japan share common strategic interests in the Far East region, a simultaneous |

| |strengthening of military capabilities has become the current bilateral consensus. |

| |The balance between the two sides is not at all a Cold War-style confrontation, since on both sides|

| |there are countries that share common political, economic, cultural, and social values. |

| |Since Taiwan is an official APEC member, the concept of gender mainstreaming was gradually brought |

| |to Taiwan as our government officials, civic groups, or entrepreneurs participated in APEC |

| |meetings. |

| |Recently, I heard some friends questioning why they should be afraid to affix their fingerprints, |

| |since they were not criminals. |

| |Furthermore, since part-time work opportunities can satisfy women’s needs to take care of the |

| |family and concurrently hold a job, in most countries women account for a quite high share of |

| |employees in part-time work, with females accounting for more than 50 percent of the part-time |

| |workforce in the Netherlands, for more than 30 percent in Australia, Japan, Britain, and Germany, |

| |but for only 10 percent in Taiwan. |

| |Since the female employment rate and part-time work rate is low, women’s ability to accumulate |

| |economic resources is affected. |

| |Since women are responsible for childrearing and caregiving, they are often forced to give up work |

| |and stay at home. |

| |In terms of mobility needs, since old women are less likely to be able drive a car, their |

| |opportunities to go on trips, go shopping, see a doctor, visit friends and relatives, and |

| |participate in society are restricted. |

| |Since we conducted all assistance bilaterally in the past, its international visibility was not |

| |great. |

| |Since the ICDF is a non-governmental organization, it is helpless when it comes to cooperation |

| |projects between governments or through international organizations. |

| |Since PTS has no commercial pressure, it should be able to do more profound reporting and serve as |

| |a model for Taiwan’s media. |

| |At the same time, employment stability in care services work is virtually nonexistent, since it |

| |belongs in the category of personnel deployment. |

| |After nonprofit organizations have developed into a service industry, the donors of some |

| |organizations will think that they don’t need to provide donations any more, since the organization|

| |is already able to make money. |

| |Since many high-tech employees face heavy work pressure, their marital and family ties or their |

| |self-acknowledgment are often very weak. |

| |But since the Democratic Progressive Party advertises itself after all as a human rights-oriented |

| |political party, those in power cannot emphasize reality too much or go as far as caring noting for|

| |ideas. |

| |Throughout the history of filmmaking, the film festivals of Cannes, Berlin, and Venice have played |

| |quite important roles, since these three film festivals gave a stage to a host of innovative films |

| |or new directors, and some non-commercial films in particular. |

| |According to Taiwan Solidarity Union Deputy Secretary-General Huang Chao-chan, voters may also stay|

| |away because they have not been well informed of the significance of the National Assembly. |

| |Minister of Justice Shih Mao-lin said that although 5,000 prisoners could gain their release by |

| |paying fines, the detainees choose not to do so because they believe it would be difficult to earn |

| |a living after being freed. |

| |The justice minister said that the high figure is not a result of an increase in crime but because |

| |prisoners choose to stay in prison rather than pay fines. |

| |Police believe Chu could have been targeted by a fraucring based in both Taiwan and China, because |

| |the Olympian revealed that one of the callers who asked for money had a typical Cantonese accent. |

| |He said, however, that he later changed his mind and refused to cooperate with the blackmailers |

| |because he realized they would never be satisfied with what they received. |

| |Because he was flying on to Japan to take part in the Inter-American Development Bank's annual |

| |meeting, President Chen invited him to fly with him to Taiwan. |

| |“We were unable to confirm Wang’s allegations party because we didn’t find the stores and partly |

| |because the locations of the stores Wang gave us were obscure.” |

| |In response to the avalanche of customer complaints, Lin Chia-jung, assistant manager of the group |

| |said, “(We are not refunding the money) not because we don’t want to, but because we have no money |

| |to refund.” |

| |The country should not be obsessed with gain or loss in elections, because that will cause the |

| |whole nation to remain stagnant and society to be divided; |

| |Lee Jye defended the gift as a courtesy because he didn’t want to return the book he borrowed |

| |without expressing his thanks. |

| |Police believe Chu could have been targeted by a fraud group based in both Taiwan and China, |

| |because the Olympian revealed that one of the callers who asked for money had a typical Cantonese |

| |accent. |

| |The electronic media was a contributing factor to the politicizing of news, because it focused on |

| |ratings and hyped news items without first authenticating them. |

| |In addition, because in its initial stages the symptoms of avian influenza resemble those of the |

| |common cold, front-line physicians need to be more vigilant and to improve their ability to |

| |differentiate between the two. |

| |The Spanish flu of 1918 is most often compared to the current strain, because scientists have |

| |discovered that the pathogen of that scourge originated among birds, and just like the strain |

| |presently raging in Southeast Asia, mutated and was transmitted to humans. |

| |“The KMT will not be disrupted by the elections because both Wang Jin-pyng and I have benefited |

| |from KMT breeding.” |

| |Though the PFP’s position in Taiwanese politics is more tenuous, because Soong had met with |

| |President Chen Shui-bian early in the year and the two had jointly announced a ten-point consensus,|

| |observers saw Soong’s visit to China as testing the waters for a potential establishment of |

| |relations between Chen’s administration and China’s rulers, prompting much speculation. |

| |Because this formulation seems to locate a middle ground between “one China, with each side having |

| |its own interpretation” and “two Chinas.” Its interpretation remains in dispute. |

| |Experts are concerned, because nobody is making any money. |

| |The 322,328 students who took the test have been referred to in the local media as “guinea pigs,” |

| |because they are the first batch of students who have gone through the government’s reformed |

| |elementary and junior high curriculum. |

| |Forty-three percent of women questioned in a survey said they do not have regular examinations for |

| |breast cancer because they are confident that they would not develop the disease, a specialist |

| |physician revealed yesterday. |

| |According to Taiwan Solidarity Union Deputy Secretary-General Huang Chao-chan, voters may also stay|

| |away because they have not been well informed of the significance of the National Assembly. |

| |In response to President Chen's public demand that KMT chairman Lien Chan report to him before his |

| |trip to the mainland, Lien said he would be visiting the mainland in the capacity of KMT chairman, |

| |and the meetings in the mainland would consist of "party-to-party communications" aimed at bringing|

| |about peace, so he didn't need the government's authorization or permission. |

| |“Party workers and public servants also need to do their part, so the 10 phone lines in the |

| |committee office have been kept busy all day long in the hopes that messages will reach out to |

| |voters that their support for the party, and for the constitutional amendments, is critical,” he |

| |said. |

| |Many traditional fishing grounds of Taiwanese fishermen fall outside this area, however, so the CGA|

| |has expanded the protected area to the entirety of Taiwan's exclusive economic zone save any |

| |foreign territorial seas within it. |

| |When the first incidents happened, the CGA found itself accused of being powerless to protect |

| |fishermen, so it made its case with numbers. |

| |At the same time, negotiations with Japan need to be brought to higher levels of government so an |

| |agreement can be signed concerning fishing rights. |

| |President Chen emphasized that any conflict in Taiwan Strait could cause irreparable harm to the |

| |peoples on both sides, so the two sides should consider taking practical steps in “arms control.” |

| |He further insisted that "cockroaches" did indeed exist, but his assistants hadn't able to catch |

| |them on film, so they had opted to shoot a "simulation"--a technique commonly employed by Taiwan's |

| |news stations. |

| |According to the CBC, interest on one-year fixed deposit accounts is currently around 1.79%, so |

| |real interest rates remain negative and long-term real interest rates will continue to drop. |

| |The Cabinet has asked banks to send customers forms to designate bank accounts for transfers so |

| |that members of the public can make transactions easily, Cho said. |

| |Taxes, the government's largest source of income, are insufficient to meet the deficit, so in order|

| |to keep from saddling the next generation with debt, hampering the government's ability to |

| |effectively put sue its policies, and damaging Taiwan's international competitiveness, reform is |

| |pressing. |

| |As the Taiwan Strait is sometimes viewed as the most dangerous place in the world, Elliott said, |

| |Chen can expect more tense times ahead. |

| |“We are deeply concerned about the fate of these runaway teenage girls, as they may be subject to |

| |physical maltreatment by their ‘Internet friends,’” said Alicia Wang, Executive Director of CWLF. |

| |China’s fall was unexpected as its economic growth has remained “red hot,” CEPD officials said. |

| |“The new measure is aimed at educating the general public on the proper use of medicines, as |

| |currently many people waste medical resources because of a lack of awareness,” said BNHI vice |

| |president Lee Cheng-hwa. |

| |Taiwan failed yesterday for the ninth consecutive year to gain observer status in the World Health |

| |Assembly, the supreme decision-making of the World Health Organization, as the presiding chairwoman|

| |refused to place the issue on the assembly’s agenda after a lengthy discussion. |

| |Death toll rises as heavy rains sustain barrage. |

| |Adults and children celebrated the “Songkran Festival” at the Sungshan elementary school in Taipei |

| |yesterday as water was splashed and squirted into the air to symbolize washing away bad luck. |

| |The cold front now hovering over Taiwan has brought a blanket of snow to more than 10 mountainous |

| |areas cross the country, as temperatures have plunged over the last two days. |

| |Taipei Health Department workers went several times to the places cared on a list provided by Wang |

| |to determine whether illicit foodstuff come in, but their investigations showed that many of the |

| |eateries did not exist or had gone out of business long age restaurants that could be found posed |

| |no cause for suspicion as their food sources could all be traced. |

| |Once the virus developed the ability to be transmitted from person to person, the situation spun |

| |out of control as the disease spread throughout the world, killing between 20…. |

| |The protest ended peacefully as no patrol boats showed up. |

| |Over half of local female patients had complained to their doctors that suffering the illness has |

| |given them a “bad figure,” as the constipation causes swelling of the lower abdomen. |

| |As these events were taking place, on May 16 at the WHO meeting in Geneva, without informing |

| |Taiwan, China announced it had signed a memorandum with the organization to aid Taiwan’s entry into|

| |WHO, on condition that Taiwan accept the “one China” principle and that entry procedures be handled|

| |under Beijing’s supervision. |

| |As the FSC is charged with administrative oversight of the banking system, Kong said that the body |

| |“would promote this new measure to the public.” |

| |As there is no airport in the Vatican, the Taiwan delegation would be required to transit through |

| |Italy which has no diplomatic ties with Taiwan, governmental officials noted yesterday. |

| |After learning of the verdict yesterday, the earthquake victims urged the city government not to |

| |appeal the court’s decision, as it had against the district court verdict. |

| |The lawsuit filed by residents of the collapsed building held the city government liable for the |

| |collapse as authorities had issued a construction permit to unqualified applicants to build the |

| |apartment block and had filed to supervise the project properly. |

| |However, as the story faded from the headlines, the fervor abated in the last two weeks, he said. |

| |A renowned breast cancer surgeon, Chang encouraged Taiwanese women to have regular breast |

| |examinations, as doctors have discovered that breast cancer cells metastasize to other organs more |

| |easily than other types of tumor cells. |

| |The number of money changers in Taiwan is expected to rise significantly in the near future as the |

| |Central Bank of China in Taiwan has allowed convenience stores, the post office and tourist spots |

| |to engage in currency exchange. |

| |Since Ju did not appear in public yesterday, it was impossible to independently corroborate the |

| |reports, but Criminal Investigation Bureau deputy chief Kao Cheng-sheng confirmed that Ju was |

| |beaten by a group of people and was at the very least slightly injured. |

| |Since many countries including Thailand and Cambodia celebrate the festival every year, officials |

| |invited new immigrant from Southeast Asian countries to the event and described it as a “meaningful|

| |activity. |

| |Police can vouch for me on that since their investigation cleared this up,” the 23-year-old |

| |emphasized. |

| |A new election for the vacancy will not take place since the tenure left by Chang is less than two |

| |years. |

| |Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, a strong supporter of formal independence for the island, |

| |told protesters the proposed Chinese law is unjustified since Taiwan is not a part of China. |

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| |Written Chinese is more difficult than other languages, so children need to master it while they're|

| |young. |

| |They are waiting for the bride to toss her bouquet, each one hoping that she will be the one to |

| |catch those very symbolic flowers, each one hoping that she will receive her own wedding blessings |

| |while the other guests look on. |

| |After they graduated, Ta-yao performed his military service while Ah-chiao remained in Taipei to |

| |work. |

| |While the museum is actively developing its image licensing market, it is also using digitization |

| |technology to enter the world of virtual reproductions. |

| |While Taiwan faces this dilemma, advanced Western nations confront the same challenges. |

| |If water intake is insufficient while the drug is being taken, it can easily lead to impaired |

| |kidney function. |

| |Time is of the essence in making this tea, as the producers need to be quick to use the flowers |

| |while their fragrance is at its strongest. |

| |While the powerful central government is in charge of protecting national security and promoting |

| |economic development, it also strictly controls information access within the government as a whole|

| |and exercises control over local governments, with the result that it is impossible to achieve |

| |local autonomy. |

| |While Chu Te-yung was away from the cartoon scene in Taiwan, his cartoons began to quietly gain |

| |popularity in mainland China. |

| |While the Forestry Bureau was opening up state-owned woodlands on one hand, farmland in the Lishan |

| |area belonging to the Veterans Affairs Commission, and as much as 60-70% of land reserved for |

| |Aboriginal peoples, was also being transformed. |

| |While government and enterprises do provide funding to NPOs, they can also be two of file biggest |

| |threats to their survival. |

| |There is no knowing what hardships he will encounter as he grows up. |

| |We stroll over to another classroom, where a woman wearing a Malay sarong switches back and forth |

| |between English and Chinese as she teaches kids in one of the lower grades how to add double-digit |

| |numbers. |

| |As he reads, Chu also stops to smile at and offer a friendly wave to a passing cat, gestures that |

| |one seldom sees from a typical Taiwanese man. |

| |Watching Chang Chin-liang as he left the platform, one could not help thinking anew about the |

| |meaning and value of work. |

| |Everybody has his or her own job to do as they grade the harvested atemoyas by weight, appearance, |

| |color and ripeness. |

| |At the same time as Taiwan agricultural products are being promoted, he says, the strategies of |

| |"equal emphasis on domestic and foreign sales" and "production and marketing marching hand in hand"|

| |should be applied during the harvest season to guard against farmers raising large crops of |

| |products with little market demand. |

| |The tale may be an old one, but as it is passed down it will continue to unfold and have new |

| |chapters added, never to end. |

| |Bouquet in hand, she hugs her boyfriend as the two of them smile brightly at their assembled |

| |friends. |

| |Above them are their beloved parents, but as they look below they see precious few people. |

| |The entire world will be facing the problem of “vacant seats” left behind by the baby boomers as |

| |they move into retirement. |

| |For this reason older managers and knowledge workers have an opportunity to get a third, fourth, |

| |fifth or sixth job as they enter the latter stage of life; and people who can enter and leave the |

| |workforce as they please are those who display good character, are more economically active, more |

| |sociable and healthier than otherwise. |

| |Some people close their eyes meditatively, while others read books or watch television as their |

| |dialysis proceeds, still others eat from take-out boxes as they receive treatment. |

| |As she lay on the dialysis bed watching the blood being siphoned out of her body, she experienced |

| |the utter unwillingness to accept reality that those who haven’t undergone dialysis would find it |

| |difficult to understand. |

| |She was psychologically prepared for a medical environment that didn't measure up to Taiwan |

| |standards but decided to take things as she found them, saying to herself, "If it's good enough for|

| |our mainland brethren, then it's good enough for us." |

| |These have a built-in recorder on which doll owners can record their inmost thoughts as they are |

| |growing up, then relive those experiences at a later date. |

| |His concern is evident as he explains that the commercialization of NPOs will make them more and |

| |more like profit-making entities. |

| |At the age of 13, as his four elder brothers were out tilling the fields, Chang began to dream of |

| |doing something bigger than driving an ox cart with his siblings. |

| |Since starting to concentrate on developing its notebook brand in 2001, Acer has endured the agony |

| |of falling ODM orders as it made the transition from contract manufacturer to own-brand |

| |manufacturer, before last year finally achieving success and taking the leading position in western|

| |Europe's notebook computer market, thus becoming Taiwan's most representative value brand. |

| |Hung listed three requirements as they began their search: the industry must be earning more than |

| |NT$200 million in revenues yearly; it must have a clear seasonality to its operations; and it must |

| |have rich story-telling potential. |

| |That afternoon, as every TV station was broadcasting round-the-clock news of the disaster, Lu |

| |received a phone call from an IHSART member. |

| |As the start draws near, the police close off the street to traffic, and pedestrians, tourists from|

| |all over, swarm in. |

| |"It's a huge waste." Lin notes that because as houses get old they lose half their value, the |

| |quality of building materials is poor, and people don't have a tradition of spending money on |

| |taking care of old buildings, the average life span of residential housing in Taiwan is only 45 |

| |years, far below Europe and the United States, where the average is over 100 years. |

| |As he listened to more and more, he gradually learned about black metal's origins in northern |

| |Europe, and the particular cultural background of the music. |

| |In the ten years since the festival began, from the time of its first leader, Lin Te-fu, to the |

| |current head, Chen Teng-chin, everyone involved has been laid waste with all the work. |

| |They both say that another language is another skill, and besides, they've been learning the |

| |languages since they were little, so it doesn't seem difficult. |

| |Since he founded Acer 28 years ago, Stan Shih has weathered many a corporate storm and put his |

| |heart and soul into the company. |

| |Since this open classroom made its Web debut at the end of last year, about 6,000 people a day have|

| |gone online to access this material and freely enjoy the contents of this online treasure house. |

| |Chu himself has been one of the five recipients of the second annual “Keep Walking” award in |

| |support of his ideals and his project. |

| |Their third daughter was luckier; though she experienced an attack when she was four, she has |

| |remained diabetes-free in the ten-plus years since it was brought under control. |

| |Since Uni-President opened its first factory in China in 1995, it has not only underscored its |

| |respect for local laws and regulations, as well as its ethical approach to management, but it has |

| |also consistently pursued a policy of “localizing management.” |

| |The Creation Social Welfare Foundation (CSFW) faces a similar problem: the organization has been |

| |understaffed since it was first established. |

| |When the mopping-up comes to an end in September and October, it's immediately time to start |

| |allocating anew work on next year's festival. |

| |Likewise, when doctors in Israel went on strike, the death rate did not increase. |

| |When a doctor consults a patient, he must first ask in detail about the patient's medical history, |

| |and only if the cause of the present ailment cannot be determined is an examination warranted. |

| |Lai points out that when people in Taiwan see three doctors for the same ailment, they are not |

| |motivated by a desire to obtain a second opinion, as is encouraged in other countries. |

| |Instead, when Taiwanese patients go to a second and third doctor, they do not inform the doctor of |

| |who saw them earlier. |

| |When he first began working at Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, it was as a clinical instructor. |

| |Lai recounts an occasion 30 years ago when he was an intern and was receiving clinical instruction.|

| |"I hope to work very hard so that when I grow up I'll be able to go to the Philippines and bring my|

| |mommy back," said bashful 12-year-old Yen Yung-chuan on winning the fifth Presidential Education |

| |Award. |

| |Yung-chuan was still wearing diapers when his mother, a Filipino national, returned to the |

| |Philippines. |

| |Wang Shu-chen recalls that when Yen Yung-chuan was in fifth grade, the school principal noticed |

| |that after class, this outstanding student would often squat in front of a flowerbed observing its |

| |plants and insects. |

| |Chen Feng-chu says that when Yung-chuan wants to play he doesn't always hit the books of his own |

| |accord. |

| |When he signed up for the presidential education award, she set him straight: "Your father's |

| |deaf-muteness is nothing to feel ashamed of. |

| |You're a good example for other school students." She was very happy when Yung-chuan gradually |

| |began to talk about his background with ease and confidence. |

| |When he's feeling down, Yung-chuan finds distraction in listening to music, reading or surfing the |

| |net. |

| |When travelers from China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan set foot in Malaysia, the place invariably strikes |

| |us as both familiar and foreign at the same time. |

| |When the mood hits, Fu Mi is apt to toss out a famous passage or quote a bit of poetry when trading|

| |instant messages with friends on MSN, and her older brother likes to include quotes from classical |

| |Chinese when writing a Chinese composition. |

| |The Taiwanese entrepreneurs who started their own businesses as young men during Taiwan’s economic |

| |transformation have worked hard for several decades, and have now inevitably reached the age when |

| |they have to pass the torch to a younger generation. Tsai Wan-lin, the head of the Lin Yuan Group, |

| |recently passed away. |

| |When Stan Shih announced in early September that Gianfranco Lanci, the Italian president of Acer |

| |EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), was to be appointed president of Acer Inc., the Taiwanese and |

| |foreign media, including the New York Times, expressed their surprise that Shih was not passing on |

| |the succession to his own son. |

| |Stan Shih was born in 1944 and his father died when he was three. |

| |When the dot-come bubble burst in 2000, the media published a barrage of news reports about Acer’s |

| |financial straits. |

| |Having to take up the challenge when the going gets tough seems to be decreed by fate. |

| |You have to save for a rainy day and be prepared for future challenges, but unforeseeable things |

| |will always happen, and when they do you just have to face them. |

| |Nowadays, when he meets old classmates and they start talking about ways to stay healthy, Shih |

| |tells them that running company is an inherently stressful job, which is why he has resolved to |

| |enjoy transferring power to subordinates and not to work himself to death. |

| |Although living in old age with one’s children remains he ideal, today, when the small, |

| |two-generation family has gradually become the mainstream, the two-income family is becoming |

| |increasingly common, and the number of children who study abroad, work abroad or emigrate is |

| |growing many people in their twilight years must contemplate another approach to life in retirement|

| |to avoid living alone with no one to care for them. |

| |When a resident is sent to the hospital, even the director of the facility accompanies him or her. |

| |Li Tang-chi says when he was in the hospital with a gastric hemorrhage, it was hard for Chi Chun to|

| |get around because of her artificial joints, and it was even difficult for her to get out the house|

| |to get something to eat. |

| |Six years ago when he decided to move into Yang-Ming his son and two daughters both objected. |

| |Four years ago when we were promoting the complex, the market was not yet mature and only seniors |

| |with a more modern outlook were moving in. |

| |When they see how well some incapacitated or paralyzed seniors their own age are being looked |

| |after, they no longer have any anxieties about their future. |

| |When all the culture villages are completed in 2006, there are to be some 4,000 residents, making |

| |this the largest group of residential complexes for seniors in Taiwan. |

| |The family here is different from the family the residents had when they were young. |

| |When family members cannot play this role, then just let the social workers in the retirement home |

| |take their place! |

| |And how many opportunities will there be for Taiwanese graduates, when China has no shortage of TCM|

| |specialists? |

| |Incorporating GPS functionality, they take advantage of technologies such as wireless data transfer|

| |and networks to send information about a bus' status to a control center, allowing operators to |

| |coordinate dispatch of the buses and members of the public to know when the buses will arrive at |

| |their stop. |

| |Moreover, when passengers emerge from an MRT station having just taken a precisely scheduled |

| |transit train, they won't feel the disparity in service so acutely if they can access "smart" |

| |shuttle buses. |

| |Using system links, base stations could detect when a road user enters the heavily trafficked |

| |Hsinyi District, the system automatically transmitting messages with real-time traffic information.|

| |Additionally, when two or more people are riding together and each has a navigation device and set |

| |the same route, each can get to the destination at his own pace, fast or slow, without feeling |

| |pressured to either keep up or to constantly look over your shoulder to find laggard partners. |

| |When they need to know the way somewhere, the Huang family no longer need ask. |

| |Now, when they need to know where to go, they simply consult the car navigation device. |

| |However, when they reached the vicinity of Pengh’s notoriously turbulent Tungchi Islet, the sizable|

| |waves threw the boats off course at several points, and the tired boatmen had to continually fight |

| |the strong currents. |

| |In addition, when the police receive a call from a foreign bride reporting domestic abuse, and the |

| |woman cannot speak Chinese and is not familiar with how to give an address, the GPS system combined|

| |with Chunghwa Telecom's address display system for incoming calls means that if she is using a home|

| |or public phone, the police can instantly pinpoint where she is and dispatch file nearest patrol |

| |car to the scene. |

| |But just when everyone was getting used to the idea of seeing Chu as a spokesman for fantasy |

| |literature, he once more became the object of media attention with a new venture in September of |

| |last year. |

| |When he was in elementary school, his older brother, 12 years his senior, was already in college |

| |and his older sister, eight years his senior, was in middle school. |

| |The family lived in military housing in Yuanshan, Taipei at a time when many were leaving such |

| |communities, making his neighborhood a quiet and lonely place, and Chu recalls that he mostly |

| |played by himself. |

| |Just when people thought that Chu had identified himself for good with the fantasy movement, he |

| |surprised them again. |

| |Two years ago when his classmates were about to graduate and were busy sending out their first |

| |resumes, Yu, then in a private university majoring ill English, found work in a foreign commercial |

| |bank through a temp agency, which had earlier helped him find a part-time job. |

| |Staff turnover has always been high, and when short-term temp workers are used, both sides are |

| |"happy." |

| |When you walk into any company office in Taiwan today you will see that the cleaning and security |

| |work is done almost entirely by people from outside. |

| |When we do go to them to see exactly what's going on, we frequently get the brash off. |

| |As for the companies that use temp labor, when they are enjoying the benefits of saving on manpower|

| |costs, they cannot help but be a bit alarmed themselves. |

| |In the 1960s when agriculture was earning Taiwan a great deal of foreign currency, Taiwan fruit was|

| |already enjoying a reputation in Japan. |

| |From mainland China's Taiwan Affairs Office holding out the olive branch to Taiwan's farmers by |

| |saying China would expand its purchases of agricultural products, to Kuomintang party vice chairman|

| |Chiang Pin-kun's visit to China in late March when he brought back with him a ten-point agreement, |

| |three points of which dealt with Taiwan agriculture, the question is being asked, are sales to the |

| |mainland really so advantageous for Taiwan farmers? |

| |When the mainland groups visited Chu he didn't let them take photographs but they still had their |

| |"secret tricks.' |

| |She explained that when her mother fell pregnant, her father happily built the soon-to-be family a |

| |new house. |

| |Fengtien's modern history begins in the late 19th century, when there were still relatively few Han|

| |Chinese living in eastern Taiwan. Large-scale clearing and cultivation of the area really started, |

| |though, with the Japanese occupation. |

| |Even when insulin levels increase, the hormone’s functioning is impaired. |

| |When the last dish is served at the wedding banquet, a raucous evening begins to wind down. |

| |Ah-chiao loves to cook, and when she doesn't have to work late, she hurries home to prepare a meal.|

| | |

| |When Ah-chiao caught the bouquet at the wedding, it was as if Love had made an unambiguous |

| |proclamation, and her heart leapt as if she and her boyfriend were already walking down the aisle. |

| |Even when a wedding isn't in the offing, money is becoming an ever more important factor in |

| |couples' decisions to live together, especially among college sweethearts. |

| |Pi-chi explains that when he and his girlfriend first met, they made frequent use of hotels. |

| |Since 1990, when the notion of "biotech cosmetics" first appeared, it has led global cosmetics into|

| |a beautiful new era. |

| |But when it pushed the seaweed cosmetics research plan, it discovered that Gracilaria had many |

| |advantages: it can protect against ultraviolet light and promotes healthy and white skin. |

| |When the Council of Agriculture announces a new finding or product, and the media duly reports on |

| |it, however, the general public often wonders where they can purchase it. |

| |At a time when electrical tools had not been introduced into the region, the project was executed |

| |under extremely harsh conditions. |

| |What hind of chemistry happens when audiences go to mainstream commercial cinemas to view these |

| |portraits of real life, bereft as they are of big stars, grandiose settings, larger-than- life |

| |performances and story lines, and special effects? |

| |In August of last year, Wu Yi-feng ran into brick wall after brick wall when he asked theaters |

| |around Taiwan to show his film. |

| |Academia Sinica ethnographer Hu Tat-Ii, who has three documentaries under her belt, points out that|

| |documentary makers face a variety of problems and challenges when they try to show their films |

| |commercially. |

| |"American Washington apples spend 40 days crossing the ocean, but when they reach the consumer, |

| |they're still fresh and crisp," says Ho. |

| |But when you get a foot in the door, it's one heck of a feeling of accomplishment. |

| |Now in the prime of life at age20, Chang Chu-ting discovered she had diabetes through a urinalysis |

| |conducted at her school when she was in third grade. |

| |When she got up, before each meal, before bed, and when her mouth felt dry or she got dizzy… she |

| |would test her blood sugar levels at least five or six times every day. |

| |Tai Tong-yuan, formerly superintendent of National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and currently |

| |director of the Division of Gerontology Research at the National Health Research Institutes, |

| |explains further that in healthy persons, pancreatic secretions are dynamic—like a boat that rises |

| |and falls with the water, secretions increase when more is eaten and decrease when less is eaten. |

| |Their eldest daughter developed diabetes when she was one year and three months old, while their |

| |second daughter was stricken at age ten. |

| |Their third daughter was luckier; though she experienced an attack when she was four, she has |

| |remained diabetes-free in the ten-plus years since it was brought under control. |

| |When her children were small, she relates, she almost never got a good night’s sleep, always on |

| |edge as she monitored the children for the sweating or spasms that might signal low blood sugar, |

| |prompting her to feed them sugar to prevent them going into a coma. |

| |When she first developed the disease in her forties, the only sign was that she never seemed able |

| |to drink enough to quench her thirst. |

| |When she went a hospital for a physical examination, she learned she had diabetes. |

| |The thrifty gene theory hypothesizes that because of harsh living conditions in Asian countries |

| |during ancient times, individuals with a genetic endowment that enabled them to more efficiently |

| |store fat as a hedge against times when food was scarce were more likely to survive the natural |

| |selection process to reproduce. |

| |“I didn’t have any of the usual signs of diabetes, and didn’t experience any physical discomfort,” |

| |Ku says, recalling the year when the disease first appeared. |

| |When she subsequently received a physical examination, she unexpectedly learned that she had |

| |diabetes. |

| |Later, when low blood sugar led to full-body shivering and incoherent speech, her family thought |

| |she was possessed by evil spirits, and sought out remedies from a divine source. |

| |Normally when children learned their parents had come into some cash, they would want them to help |

| |out with a loan to start a business. |

| |He goes from the slaves of Roman times, the guild workers and serfs of the Middle Ages on through |

| |the Protestant Reformation of the 17th century when workers believed in a diligent and simple work |

| |ethic. |

| |In the 1960s when the US and Europe were moving from a manufacturing economy to a services-based |

| |economy they began to utilize the labor of developing countries and moved factories to Central and |

| |South American and Asia. |

| |When US retirement systems were first drawn up in the 1950s the average life expectancy was just |

| |over 60, a few years less than the mandated retirement age of 65. |

| |But in the future when life expectancy rises to 80 or 90 years it won’t make any sense to have |

| |people retire early and then spend 20-some years waiting each month for heir annuity checks. |

| |Otherwise one day when they write you a bad check, you may have no one to complain to. |

| |She went from monthly earnings of some NT$2-300,000 to a low point when she returned to Chiayi to |

| |sell a house of her father’s and pay off her debts and then began her career in the media. |

| |Right now people should be spending all their effort at saving up human capital, raising their |

| |hireability, so that when a person goes out looking for a job he can actually get hired,” says Hsin|

| |Ping-lung. |

| |But when Hsin examined the time devoted to on-the-job training by the government and by private |

| |industry he found a problem. |

| |What we can predict is that if retirement is a time when we can start anew and enjoy some rest and |

| |relaxation and, relying on our experience, wisdom and ability, create an entirely new life, the |

| |dividing line between work and retirement will no longer be as clear as it has been in the past, |

| |and the impact of the baby boomer retirement wave will send some new sparks flying. |

| |When cultural artifacts are retooled for Generation Y, the painting Spring Festival on the River |

| |becomes a digital postcard to send to friends, an imperial jade scepter becomes a combination lock,|

| |and a phoenix pattern becomes a fashionable purse. |

| |The second phase of the marketing plan is set for mid-October, when five local designers will |

| |unveil their creations, drawing on the museum's resources in a series called "Old is New." |

| |Chih Shu-yu, who began dialysis when she was 39, has been receiving the treatment now for 15 years.|

| | |

| |Like most dialysis patients, when she fist heard that she would have to undergo dialysis, she |

| |resisted and desperately sought out alternatives. |

| |When she first began dialysis, surgery was first performed to create an arterio-venous shunt. |

| |When most diseases are treated successfully, subsequent drains on health care resources are |

| |reduced. |

| |Having provided guidance to patients since an era when petitions had to be made and an entire |

| |family would have to beg so that a member could win the right to receive dialysis treatment, the |

| |foundation’s chief director Chang Su-Kuang has the deepest awareness of the situation. |

| |When the NHI program was instituted in 1995, dialysis was a covered medical procedure. |

| |When most people hear that they will have to undergo dialysis, they try to avoid it if possible, |

| |afraid that once they start, it will mean a lifetime of dialysis. |

| |One woman, who had been taking painkillers to deal with the discomfort of her menstrual period, |

| |suffered from kidney failure when she was matched to a donor kidney and received a transplant. |

| |When patients hear that they need dialysis, the first thing they do is not to prepare the dialysis |

| |shunt, but seek out fold remedies and Chinese herbal medicines. |

| |He recalled his mother’s devout belief in Buddhism when he was a boy, prompting the idea to collect|

| |Buddhist icons. |

| |In early October, matters finally came to a head when Taichung Veterans General Hospital was |

| |penalized by the BNHI, in a move that drew fire from medical care professionals. |

| |When a hospital requested NT$100 from the BNHI, reimbursement was immediately discounted by 15%, so|

| |that the hospital received only NT$85. in the first quarter of this year, this was reduced further |

| |to NT$72. |

| |When discussions failed to yield improvements, on October 8 the BNHI moved to penalize Taichung |

| |Veterans General Hospital by suspending it from the Hospital Excellence Plan. |

| |Harvesting ends in September, then the garden’s more or less left alone until the following April, |

| |when all the flowers start popping back up. |

| |Seeing the industry on the decline hurt him deeply, and when he heard about the Cultural |

| |Association’s plan to try and revive it, he leapt straight in, despite not quite getting the idea |

| |himself. |

| |When they were just getting things going, they realized that the old farms didn’t necessarily have |

| |to be used just for fish rearing. |

| |Liao couldn’t quite believe it when the Cultural Affairs Bureau first laid out their plan; she’d |

| |never really thought of brickmaking as “cultural,” let alone artistic. |

| |It kept this name until the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, when a Japanese prince stopped at the |

| |town on a tour. |

| |When the train pulled in and he heard the name of the town announced, he misheard the Japanese |

| |pronunciation of the name, Kadankyaku, as Kadoukyaku, or “low-class passenger.” |

| |When local Hsinchu specialties are mentioned, people today automatically think of pork balls and |

| |rice noodles, but 50 to 60 years ago, Hsinchu and the surrounding area was the center of Taiwan's |

| |face powder industry. |

| |The elderly say that when you were taking the train, 'If you smelled face powder, you knew you had |

| |arrived in Hsinchu." |

| |Grandma Wante, who didn't have the faintest idea what the Internet was, was tickled pink when her |

| |"sunset industry" received a new lease on life because of it. |

| |When you see Grandma Wante chatting warmly with these kids who are young enough to be her |

| |grandchildren, it's obvious that many of them are regulars. |

| |Face powder used in the removal of facial hair was a key product when the firm was first founded, |

| |but today, it only makes up about 10% of income. |

| |That old wooden counter piled high with all sorts of articles is a time machine that takes us back |

| |to better days when a store owner could chitchat freely with customers half a century her junior. |

| |It's hard to make a living when you're this idealistic and meticulous, so Huang had to depend on |

| |smaller projects to make ends meet. |

| |When the loan was finally paid off, the salaries of senior employees climbed from NT$20-30,000 to |

| |NT$50-60,000 today. |

| |I could only look my employees in the eye when we received awards." |

| |For instance, when the county government wanted to convert an abandoned pig farm into Hsiti's |

| |community center, Huang felt that a community center cannot exist independently of the local |

| |culture, so he divided it up into units in imitation of a traditional residential complex. |

| |Many have been the time when workers were standing by to commence work, but at the last minute, |

| |Huang has had a sudden inspiration and changed the plans, sending everyone into a flurry of |

| |activity. |

| |When people first visit Tungshan, on first sight of the big shop-front windows they could be |

| |forgiven for thinking it's a mall. |

| |When ground was first broken on the rest stop, there were plans to relocate the tree, but |

| |considering the threat this would have posed to the tree's survival, and the local support for the |

| |tree, which is regarded as a local guardian spirit, it remained, becoming the symbol of Tungshan |

| |Rest Stop. |

| |Now that the first chapter in the region’s modernization has been written, will they face the same |

| |difficulties they encountered when they began to leave Taiwan? |

| |When Taiwanese manufacturers heard that factory space could be rented for RMB4-9 per square meter |

| |per month, they flocked to Dongguan. |

| |When an employer and its employees reach an agreement, the government does not interfere. |

| |When Typhoon Mindulle hit the island this year, and when forest fires struck the Lishan area, this |

| |arrangement proved very effective. |

| |Naturally, no matter how good a policy is, when it is actually implemented there will inevitably be|

| |difficulties. |

| |When it was first established, the MAC was charged with coordinating cross-strait affairs. |

| |Other buildings, like teahouses, pottery stores, and stores selling traditional Chinese clothing |

| |just add to the elegant aura of the place, and when you add in the rows of Indian coral trees, big |

| |public areas at street corners, and beautiful little private villas, you’ve got a spectacular |

| |scene. |

| |A local man by the name of Mr. Chen, an assistant at the temple in his 60s, recounts to us the |

| |story of these wells” when he was a child, the wells were a rich source of water, and every day the|

| |locals would go to the wells and draw water. |

| |When the news was leaked, it caused consternation around the world. |

| |Now, however, the entire world is developing industrially, with the result that the day when energy|

| |resources are depleted may be approaching much more quickly than we anticipated. |

| |When voters complain of traffic congestion, elected representatives usually respond by reclaiming |

| |sidewalks or traffic islands to make room for parking spaces, not only infringing on the fights of |

| |pedestrians but also indirectly encouraging the relentless growth in the number of privately owned |

| |vehicles. |

| |Because bakeries and restaurants are "high-profile" and Children Are Us' cause is an |

| |attention-grabber, when customers think about donating to charity, they naturally think of Children|

| |Are Us first. |

| |When they are receiving their year-long training, the foundation gives them NT$3-5,000 in incentive|

| |bonuses each month, depending on their performance. |

| |However, when every event is called a "festival," there's the risk that people will no longer look |

| |forward to them. |

| |Hopefully, when the crowds have gone, the festivals have not only brought in money, but given the |

| |nation cultural enrichment and a sense of identity. |

| |Also, when he was creating the well-known series "Double-Sound Crackers" about husbands and wives |

| |with his usual gentle humor, he was still a single guy. |

| |When he was young, Chu didn't like going to school or studying. |

| |When he was a junior, Chu Te-yung transferred to a private "graduation school" on the outskirts of |

| |Taipei to which students were "farmed out" just to get their diplomas. |

| |When Chu saw the reality of the situation, many thoughts flashed through his mind. |

| |It was exactly the same feeling he had as a child when he had been taken off to school, so he made |

| |the courageous and resolute decision to quit his job. |

| |Chu thinks back to his most productive period, roughly 1997-98, when he published a total of 12 |

| |books of cartoons. Workdays often exceeded eight hours, and he worked far harder than when he used |

| |to be at the office. |

| |When Chu was working at home during this period he did nothing but drawing, drawing and more |

| |drawing, right until the warning signs appeared-his wife discovered that increasingly "he could no |

| |longer laugh." |

| |His wife wanted him to stop drawing, but he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary until 1998, |

| |when his wife put her foot down and put a stop to all his book publishing and commercial projects, |

| |leaving only two or three signature cartoon strips. |

| |"This market is such that when you leave, there's always somebody to take your place and fill in, |

| |no matter how well or lousily he draws," says Chu Te-yung with equanimity. |

| |He says when he wakes each day his eyes are open in an instant and his brain turns on like an |

| |electric light bulb, ready to go. |

| |As he has gradually gotten older, however, Chu has grown rather fond of that time just after going |

| |to bed when you get a bit groggy. |

| |When China Motors opened a factory in Fuzhou, the move attracted 35 of their Taiwanese suppliers to|

| |set up there too, so there is a huge ripple effect. |

| |When Mrs. Liu took her daughter to the local health station for her kindergarten physical, the |

| |nurse pulled out a big, old-fashioned needle to take blood. |

| |This was the way she thought when she first arrived. |

| |But when her 14-year-old daughter had a series of minor medical situations and went a number of |

| |times to the hospital for treatment, the experience raised a great many doubts in Chang's mind and |

| |led her to understand that there really were vast differences between Chinese and Taiwanese medical|

| |treatment. |

| |The doctor gave her a bunch of medicine and when she got home, Chang took a good look at the |

| |labels, which were filled with odd-sounding names, and thought she would do some research and find |

| |out what they were. |

| |This summer Chang's 17-year-old daughter developed some acne on the side of her lip that bled |

| |profusely when the scab broke. |

| |When they got to the laser room the doctor who was to perform the procedure said, "I can't do it.” |

| |At a time when China's urban development is approaching international standards and when their |

| |children's education problem has been solved by the establishment of schools for them, Taiwanese |

| |businesspeople are hoping that the health problem can be taken care of, but this basic wish still |

| |depends upon the close cooperation of the medical communities on either side of the strait. |

| |Because the size of the pie is fixed, when the top-tier foundations take a bigger slice, the |

| |second-tier foundations are left with a smaller one. |

| |Lin also warns that society suffers when those who were originally its guardians become so busy |

| |with commercial endeavors that donors become reluctant to support them. |

| |Usually when you study something, you're supposed to gain more and more each day--like learning |

| |singing, painting, architecture, yoga, or even science. |

| |Only when we open ourselves do we discover that many things are speaking to us. |

| |When I look back at my works, I can see mistakes, as well as some surprisingly good points. |

| |When you mention Houli Town-ship in Taichung County, most people think only of the Houli Horse |

| |Farm. |

| |When former US president Bill Clinton visited Taiwan at the beginning of the year, President Chen |

| |Shui-bian presented him with a saxophone made in Houli. |

| |Once, when an apprentice made a big mistake, Chang smashed his work to pieces on the floor in front|

| |of all the apprentices, explaining that a flawed saxophone is not a musical instrument, but just a |

| |worthless toy. |

| |In 1953, when the Hsiluo Bridge was completed, Houli was the only town in Taiwan that had a Western|

| |music band. |

| |On a wall in the Chang Lien-cheng Saxophone Museum hangs a self-portrait Chang painted when he was |

| |23. |

| |When his parents tried to introduce him to a prospective bride in the 1960s, he rebelled by putting|

| |on a pair of torn jeans and shaving off his hair. |

| |Wang can't contain a sigh of regret when he thinks of the open strife and veiled rivalry that have |

| |come to rule Houli's saxophone industry. |

| |"Considering that Chang Lai has spent his life working selflessly for others and passed on his |

| |expertise from generation to generation, he cannot help heaving a sigh of regret when he sees that |

| |Jupiter, which grew out of Yamaha, is the only saxophone name brand in Taiwan. |

| |When his father died three years ago and he took over the enterprise, Chang Tsung-yao and his wife |

| |Wang Tsai-jui took stock and realized that in almost 60 years, the saxophone business had brought |

| |them neither great wealth nor great prestige, but it had enabled the whole family to be well fed |

| |and well clothed. |

| |The Chang family has come a long way from the days 60 years ago when Chang Lien-cheng taught |

| |himself the art of saxophone making, to the Chang sisters' saxophone quartet. It's been a journey |

| |like no other. |

| |These days when you mention mountain agriculture, most people think of rampant overuse of |

| |slopeland, pollution of reservoirs and water sources, and landslides. |

| |In an area of strong environmental consciousness, when reports of disasters are frequent, naturally|

| |a land-use policy that gives the environment central importance is going to get a generally |

| |positive response. |

| |However, when some workers at Fushou Mountain Farm saw that pear trees planted around the former |

| |Japanese police station in a nearby Aboriginal community at Huanshan grew well, they decided to |

| |import apple, pear, and peach trees from Japan for trial planting. |

| |When the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan in 1949, overnight the island was flooded with |

| |two million refugees and soldiers, creating an immediate shortage of arable land, and spawning an |

| |urgent need for development in the mountains. |

| |Back in the 1950s, when veterans were urged to open up farmland in the mountains, the Forestry |

| |Bureau opened up state-owned forest land to development, including land that lay on ever steeper |

| |gradients. |

| |For many years now illegal loggers have been cutting trees along the upstream parts of rivers, and |

| |when a heavy rain hits they just wait downstream to pick up the logs that are carried by the |

| |rushing water, the government has never been able to catch them fast enough. |

| |At a time when Taiwan’s population is aging rapidly, Hu is responsible for improving daycare |

| |provision, relaxing labor laws, and developing the care-giving industry to improve the life of all |

| |working people in Taiwan. |

| |When companies suddenly went under or an industry changed direction, the labor market could not |

| |keep up. |

| |When people live longer because of better health, the working age limit and the retirement age can |

| |be raised. |

| |Contributors consider that they are building up their own savings, when in fact they are paying for|

| |other people’s social security. |

| |If there aren’t enough young people in the labor force when the baby boomers retire en masse, |

| |social security expenditure may one day exceed income. |

| |But past the tiredness, he remembers when the two brothers were "poor, but with promise." |

| |When the Democratic Progressive Party rose to power in 2000 after years in opposition, they |

| |emphasized a philosophy that when it comes to government, "small is beautiful," and that they |

| |wanted to work as a partner with NPOs. |

| |This was particularly so in the aftermath of the September 1999 quake, when resources were |

| |stretched to their limit Many NPOs faced a dramatic reduction in fundraising ability, forcing them |

| |to change their approach. |

| |As Tina Wu, the foundation's executive director, says, when a business chooses who to work with, |

| |they don't want to get attached to a name that sounds too severe. |

| |When NPOs start getting involved in civil service work, it's easier for them to become |

| |institutionalized, and once that happens, their old role, overseeing the government, is lost, and |

| |their new role is confused. |

| |When consumers buy beef at their local supermarket, they can run a barcode on the package through |

| |an in-store computer which then provides detailed information about the animal from which the meat |

| |was cut: its sex; its birth date; the area in which it was raised; its producer; and its BSE test |

| |certificate. |

| |Having such information available makes it possible to find similar animals when adverse incidents |

| |occur. |

| |When the COA began aggressively promoting its food traceability system last year, it took a look at|

| |the Tounan Farmers' Association's older paper records and decided to help the association |

| |computerize them. |

| |When the heavy rains early this year made Tounan's fields too muddy to walk in easily, the February|

| |harvest of carrots and burdock roots was delayed again and again. |

| |When the fields were finally harvested, yields were down 20%, and the carrots, which had been in |

| |the earth too long, were huge, prompting association members to sigh, "When you farm, it really is |

| |Heaven that decides whether you eat." |

| |This was a huge mistake because this design had the solar panels producing electricity only half |

| |the day when the sun was shining. |

| |The parking fees paid by the public can't begin to compare with the capital investment, and when |

| |you turn around and see that a poor person may spend an entire lifetime and yet be unable to afford|

| |just 30 square feet of land you realize that this is extremely unfair. |

| |When all was said and done, three bluefins each weighing 250 kilograms were sold, raising NT$18.8 |

| |million for a children's fund in an event that kicked off the 2005 Bluefin Tuna Cultural Festival |

| |in Pingtung. |

| |"The five-word mantra that I keep repeating to students when I teach classes on how to market the |

| |festival is as follows: 'Fresh, energetic, spectacular, unique, and authentic,'" says Hung |

| |Wan-lung, past director of Pingtung County Cultural Affairs. |

| |Hung was racking his brains when a group of bluefin tuna fishermen arrived to see the county |

| |commissioner regarding their plight. |

| |When there is not enough of a given local product to meet demand, organizers might even import |

| |further supplies from the outside to mix in with the real thing. |

| |When we manage to save mountain climbers in distress, as we did during our last two or three |

| |missions, it's an indescribable feeling." Lu says that Heaven plays a hand in rousing the rescuers |

| |to give their all. |

| |Asked whether he worries about his sons, Yang says that when you're involved in a disaster relief |

| |operation, you just focus on the job: "You simply don't have the time to worry about anything |

| |else." Yang's whole family sells fried chicken in a night market in Chungho, Taipei County. |

| |When the Yangs close shop, everyone knows that they are away on a rescue mission. |

| |He won't be worried about the pain when they throw the firecrackers at him. |

| |The longer they can hold out, the more brave and strong they are said to be and the more applause |

| |they get when they come down from the palanquin. |

| |When the sound of gongs announces the arrival of the Hsuanwu Temple's Handan procession, the |

| |excitement begins. |

| |Businesses usually give a red envelope of cash to the Handans when they come down from the |

| |palanquin as a token of gratitude, and Chinyeh hands out specially made gold medals every year. |

| |When the parents hear about it and rush to the scene, only to see their baby enveloped in smoke and|

| |explosions, it's hard for them to take. |

| |When it's all over, the shop has given out 11 medals. |

| |When Lai comes down, he gasps for air and says it was like being on the moon. |

| |"We have almost turned buildings into throwaway chopsticks that we dispose of when we're done using|

| |them," Lin Hsien-te says. "It's a huge waste." |

| |When friends visit him in the evening, they go to a primary school across the street and sit on a |

| |stand and enjoy the cool breeze and moon. |

| |Tracing his ancestry to Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province, Chang was born in Shanghai, and his family |

| |moved to Hong Kong when he was a baby. |

| |When he finished elementary school at age 12, he had an excellent record that had earned his |

| |admittance to an academic junior high school. |

| |When he was 23 years old, Chang Kuo-jung began to work for the Maxim's Cakes and Bakery group in |

| |Hong Kong--in their Chinese cuisine, Western cuisine, Japanese cuisine and baking departments. |

| |When they had fully absorbed the vinegar, he used them to wrap up the fish. |

| |As a child, Freddy studied classical piano, but when he started junior high school, he started |

| |getting into heavy metal. |

| |"Not many people know this," he says, "but when I was in university, I wasn't in the Rock Club--I |

| |was actually in the Traditional Music Club." |

| |When they're on stage, the members of ChthoniC are always made up with dark, gothic makeup. |

| |Formoz has become famous as an indie music event, but when it started 11 years ago, it was just an |

| |intercollegiate event held by the Northern Taiwan Rock Alliance. |

| |When they'd had enough music for a while, attendees could go and watch some experimental cinema or |

| |wrestling, and if they got hungry, there were snacks a-plenty. |

| |After the curtain falls on tile one-and-half month festival in mid-August, shushing the sounds of |

| |children playing in the water and ending the warm atmosphere of the children's folk performances, |

| |it's time to pack everything up. |

| |After the preparatory committee has made its decisions, orders are placed for promotional |

| |materials, memorabilia, and designs and plans for the exhibition center and for water activities. |

| |He hopes that after he grows up and starts earning money, he'll be able to study music and become a|

| |musician. |

| |During the second half, they rack their brains trying to ensure that their company will be managed |

| |well after they are gone. |

| |After the plan was approved it elicited a great deal of public interest. |

| |After the kids go to school, the seniors feel somewhat lonely, not like in Tanshui where there are |

| |many seniors and activities and things are more lively. |

| |There's no need to ask anyone for directions, and after you have a positioning system in place, you|

| |will always know where you are and how to get back home," says Mio Technology brand marketing |

| |manager Michael Hsu. |

| |After the new retirement system goes into effect on July 1, the cost of hiring staff for employers |

| |will rise and there will be no end to the tricks introduced to get around this, like disguised wage|

| |cuts, or firing people and then rehiring them to "reset" their seniority to zero, and many |

| |businesses will respond to the situation by hiring temp workers. |

| |After they are graded by weight, the atemoyas are inspected visually for appearance, color, and |

| |ripeness, and fruit that is deformed or has been damaged by insects or by the machine is weeded |

| |out. |

| |After Japanese quarantine officials finally came to Taiwan last year for an inspection, they |

| |approved the papaya fumigation process. |

| |They approve your leasing the land for 50 years now, but then three years down the line, after |

| |you've made your investment, might they not just go back on their word, trump up some charge and |

| |then take over? |

| |After they graduated, Ta-yao performed his military service while Ah-chiao remained in Taipei to |

| |work. |

| |It's like choosing not to have children--a decision someone might make out of consideration for the|

| |competitive pressures a child would face after it was born. |

| |After FRI announced the launch of Gracilaria-based cosmetics, it was surprised to see a television |

| |news report on Gracilaria in cosmetics that featured a sponge gourd. |

| |After martial law was lifted in 1987, documentaries broke the mainstream media's grip on society, |

| |as they bore witness to the changes taking place in that historical time. |

| |After the rescue work came to a close and the volunteers returned home, however, renowned |

| |documentar,/director Wu Yi-feng stayed behind with members of his company Full Shot. |

| |After Chang posted his resume in the documentary section of a headhunter's website last year, |

| |Singapore's Moving Visuals liked what they saw and asked him to join their multinational team. |

| |After base areas are set up at Meifeng vegetable crops suitable for cool, high elevations can be |

| |planted by machine instead of by hand; fruit trees too are planted in rain sheltered systems and |

| |managed for increased yields. |

| |After a person ingests food, blood sugar levels increase, and insulin secretions also rise in |

| |response, to carry the sugar to surrounding tissues for absorption and utilization. |

| |After her children began school, Wang began working as a school volunteer. |

| |After his mother remarried, Peng endured a rough childhood. |

| |After the fixed-budget scheme was instituted, the BNHI followed up early this year by introducing a|

| |hospital self-management plan, which became the Hospital Excellence Plan in July, itself the |

| |subject of controversy in the medical care sector. |

| |After the stone was pulverized, the powder was made into a paste which was placed in vats and |

| |allowed to settle. |

| |After construction was finished, it was to be handed over to the county government's Bureau of |

| |Business and Travel, which would be responsible for planning and attracting businesses. |

| |After the economic reforms were launched, people and capital converged on Dongguan, and a great |

| |many factories were built there. |

| |After the year-end legislative elections are over, each day’s Legislative Yuan session will |

| |represent a golden opportunity, which we will make the most of. |

| |After the BOC was passed, the hard work really began. |

| |After it's over, they return to their normal lives. |

| |After they started to feel the pinch they got in touch with a publisher to discuss doing a book, |

| |while Chu Te-yung proceeded to become the earliest home office worker in Taipei. |

| |But, although he loathed all things having to do with the system, after Chu Te-yung actually joined|

| |the ranks of the home office workers his days were strictly ordered and regulated. |

| |In 2002 after Chu returned to the cartoon scene following an absence of three years he was faced |

| |this ruthless situation. |

| |After the coastal areas began to develop, levels of these benefits inevitably rose, and companies |

| |operating in the coastal areas discovered that their expenses were rising. |

| |After the museum opened, Chang Tsung-yao bought back this saxophone from its owner and put it on |

| |display. |

| |After she went to university, she heard many classic Western compositions for the saxophone, and |

| |came to appreciate the beauty of this instrument. |

| |This is also the stretch of land where Aborigines chose to settle after they were pushed out of the|

| |lowlands. |

| |After the primary inking has been completed in Taipei, the project is then transferred to Suzhou |

| |and Bangkok, where the less involved coloring and in-betweening are completed. |

| |After the restrictions were relaxed, all kinds of NPOs sprang up. |

| |After an NPO is established, whether or not it can successfully achieve its goals in the community |

| |is dependent on the complicated relationship between economic and governmental setup, rules and |

| |regulations, competitive pressures, fundraising methods, and the amount of trust the community has |

| |in them. |

| |After Japan discovered its first case of mad-cow disease in September 2001, it too began promoting |

| |detailed production records. |

| |According to him, Taiwan's agricultural policymakers acted very cautiously during the first |

| |critical year after Taiwan joined the World Trade Organization in 2002. |

| |After the festival begins, the organizers work according to Hung's "five-word mantra" to supply the|

| |media with vivid stories and hot topics for conversation, utilizing weekly news conferences to stay|

| |firmly in the public eye. |

| |After the festival organizers began to use various means of working with the media, many other |

| |newly established festivals sought to emulate their success, thinking that all they needed was that|

| |media relationship to ignite public interest and set the tone for their own festivals. |

| |After he retired from the military, he and a group of friends organized themselves into a |

| |mountain-rescue team that sprang into action whenever a mountain accident occurred in Taiwan. |

| |After the China Airlines crash over Tayuan, rescuers were unable to buy plastic gloves in the |

| |middle of the night, and had to pick up body parts with their bare hands. |

| |After the China Airlines crash near the Penghu islands, Lu stayed on the islands for 37 days. |

| |After their equipment had been loaded onto trucks, a group of IHSART rescuers who were sitting in |

| |the last military truck in the desolate disaster area saw some people wave goodbye to them through |

| |the darkness.... |

| |After asbestos was found to cause lung cancer, the World Health Organization also warned that once |

| |formaldehyde, commonly used in plywood, carpets and other building materials, reaches a certain |

| |level it can also trigger cancer. |

| |Chiang Che-ming points out that after the green building trend swept the world in the 1990s, health|

| |consciousness also began to gain ground. |

| |Shih says, “Sometimes your time is up before you can really start enjoying life.” |

| |It is a memento stitched together for him as a gift by children who participated in the summer camp|

| |he organized for epileptic children seven years ago, before he returned to Taiwan from the |

| |University of Kansas School of Medicine. |

| |As a university diploma has decreased in value, many students have chosen to remain in school and |

| |do a fifth and sixth year before they sit for graduate school exams and increase their |

| |competitiveness in the workplace. |

| |'Temp agencies often wait until they get a contract with a client before they go out and look for |

| |someone," says consultant Li Ming-yuan of Long-Term Management Consultancy Co. lid., who has |

| |attended many public hearings on legislation for temp labor held by the Council of Labor Affairs. |

| |Before that happens, it’s best to take good care of one’s health. |

| |More surprising is that those who cohabit before marriage are less satisfied with their marriages |

| |than those who do not. |

| |One of these groups, LivingTogether, recommends that couples write up and sign an agreement before |

| |they move in together or make a major purchase together, in order to avoid property disputes during|

| |a break-up or if one partner dies. |

| |You need people to see your film, before you can get a response," asserts Yang Yi-che. |

| |Li Chih-che says that although the bulk of Taiwan’s domestic scented tea production seems to be |

| |based in Huatan, every summer the local tea-makers have to get tealeaves shipped down for |

| |preparation before the jasmine buds can be fully processed. |

| |Tax declarations had to be purchased before products could be shipped. |

| |Some projects require communication on a door-to-door basis before they can even be set into |

| |motion. |

| |Also, Tseng explains, under PRC law those who sell taxable bonded goods for personal profit before |

| |they have cleared customs are guilty of smuggling. |

| |As for the other 97% of buildings in Taiwan that were built before the rules came into effect, how |

| |can their energy efficiency be improved? |

| |After the adjustment period, candidates are observed for a month before they are officially hired. |

| |It took three different high schools before he was able to graduate. |

| |He was supposed to get to the office in the evening but he always dragged it out to the last second|

| |before he would catch a taxi and make his way to the job. |

| |He would religiously rise each morning a little after eight, have a light breakfast and then bury |

| |his head and begin feverishly drawing without a break, except for lunch, right on until the stars |

| |came out before he would rest. |

| |Chu doesn't understand why this should be so, but it is his happiest moment just before he falls |

| |off to sleep. |

| |In the process of researching Taiwanese business in China, we have discovered that it takes a |

| |company an average of at least seven years in one location before it is confident enough to invest |

| |in a second location. |

| |The program aims to acquaint students with NPOs and get them involved before they graduate. |

| |Compared with NPO numbers abroad, it would appear people power in Taiwan still has a way to go |

| |before it’s at full force. |

| |Before the draft was published, there were already some voices starting to call for self-discipline|

| |within the NPO community. |

| |In the interim before this law is passed, a Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol Response Group has |

| |been set up under the Executive Yuan's Commission on Sustainable Development that will promote the |

| |relevant policy. |

| |We will also stand with NGO environmental and human rights organizations to push for new laws, but |

| |in the interim before these laws are passed we must first get the concepts out there, and see how |

| |many people agree with them. |

| |Although instructors tell prospective rescuers to "first save yourself before you can save anybody |

| |else," and discourage heroics, Lu acknowledges that it would be misleading to claim that SAR work |

| |isn't dangerous. |

| |Before he started working at the restaurant, the young Chang rarely had a full belly. |

| |Chang's pepper sauce uses the exact same ingredients, but he adopts a different procedures: First |

| |he fries garlic and then adds onions, and before he adds the pepper he first roasts it briefly. |

| |"When the foundation first became strong enough to offer jobs, a young man came to apply," the |

| |founder relates. |

| |For example, when the NHI hospital excellence program was recently introduced, with controls on the|

| |total amounts payable to hospitals for treatment, people began to ware each other not to get ill in|

| |December, for fear that hospitals, having used up their annual "quota," would lose interest in |

| |treating patients. |

| |We sigh when we think of that city's blazing night skyline as seen from the Oriental Pearl Tower. |

| |When many people think of Guangzhou, they recall that it was the starting point of the Nationalist |

| |revolution, avian flu, and SARS. |

| |Their current situation is similar to that in Taiwan when they left in the 1980s: shortages of |

| |labor, water, and electricity. |

| |When they hear this news, consumers worry that their wallets will get thinner, sociologists worry |

| |that disadvantaged families will be forced to burn candles, economists worry about inflation—only |

| |environmentalists feel that at long last the right thing is being done. |

| |Taiwan is lucky when it comes to water. |

| |Especially during these past few years when climate change and abnormal weather phenomena have |

| |become increasingly prominent--if it's not floods then it's droughts--the 21st century has become |

| |the "century of water." |

| |It is a century when we swear to defend our water resources with our lives--it is not a century of |

| |"water, water, everywhere!" |

| |When I arrived at 11 p.m. there was not a sound to be heard in the old-style courtyard house. |

| |Even in middle school, when it's clear that they will need to work twice as hard to study |

| |simultaneously in both Malay and in Chinese, so as to avoid being cut off from the road to further |

| |education, 50-60,000 students in Malaysia study at independent Chinese middle schools, where dearly|

| |held Chinese traditions are passed down. |

| |At home, they speak Mandarin and Cantonese or Hokkien, but when they go out shopping they speak |

| |Malay, when they bump into Indian friends they speak Tamil, and with the local indigenous peoples |

| |they speak the native dialects. |

| |When James T.C. Chen, son of KMT elder Chen Li-fu and chairman of the Lifu Medical Research |

| |Foundation, died after surgery in Beijing, his family angrily attacked China's healthcare. |

| |According to his family, James Chen was in Beijing on an inspection tour when he became unwell with|

| |flu. |

| |When he went to hospital for a checkup he was found to have a liver tumor. |

| |When you think that he was referred to the hospital by eminent doctors, what happened is even more |

| |disturbing. |

| |You're in the car on a long trip when you start feeling famished. |

| |If hot-spot coverage wasn't comprehensive, you could be watching a critical moment in a soccer game|

| |when you suddenly stepped out of wireless range, and who wouldn't get annoyed at that? |

| |The media refers to "modern Genghis Khans," alluding to the conqueror who rewrote European history |

| |when his armies arrived at the gates of Urganch in Khorazm just a few months after leaving the |

| |great deserts of Mongolia. |

| |I recall that a businessman once said that when he was with Matra of France, he worked overtime |

| |several days in a row to make a good impression. |

| |Maybe in 20 years, when they have a nest egg set aside and the kids are married and on their own, |

| |they can consider retiring. |

| |A few days ago, when a friend turned up with a face the color or a well cooked lobster, I made a |

| |crack about his foolhardiness in going to the beach or the mountains in such weather, only to learn|

| |that he had got his sunburn by just making a few business visits about town! |

| |When one thinks of the predicament of Middle-Eastern countries, with their oil resources the target|

| |of covetous powers, millions of innocent people living amid violence and hatred, and the whole |

| |world…. |

| |Not long after the hospital was sealed off, 28-year-old resident physician Lin Chung-wei died there|

| |of SARS, which he had caught from a patient. |

| |Even though I used a parasol, I had a terrible headache for two days after I got home, as well as |

| |shaky hands and rubber legs from helping load the fruit. |

| |These last several years, perhaps it is the awakening of Taiwan volunteerism in the wake of the |

| |9-21 earthquake of 1999, perhaps the persuasive appeals of compassionate social workers, or maybe |

| |it's the need for doing something spiritual after all our material needs have been met, but more |

| |and more people are willing to give of their time, money and effort in the hope of doing a little |

| |something for society, in the hope that their…. |

| |' Yes, somebody should yell stop before we spin out of control! |

| |The problem is, long before that happens their present jobs will have disappeared. |

| |Although the agricultural population has decreased in the three years since Taiwan joined the WTO, |

| |output value has grown every year and farmers have had to make fewer adjustments. |

| |Since the Kyoto Protocol finally took effect in February of this year, the whole world has been |

| |watching to see how things develop. |

| |Many middle-aged individuals find themselves sandwiched between their responsibilities at home and |

| |at work, under immense pressure to support their families, while doors leading to workplace |

| |advancement click shut. |

| |While AsusTek realized that the size of the clone (assemble) market was/is limited, first, it used |

| |the accumulated managerial experience gained from its motherboard products and adopted an entry |

| |strategy to cooperate with the industry leaders in different channels within different regions in |

| |order to smoothly enter into the international market. |

| |Apart from that, I knew very little of the country, but I decided to explore the exotic culture in |

| |Costa Rica while I am still young, and learn about the world on the other end of the globe. |

| |It was just past 10:00am, Lo Chung-chiang, a senior product research and development manager of |

| |Victory Computer, bumped into his colleague, Chen Wei-ming, as he stepped out of the lift. |

| |Since 1989 China has been taking advantage of these loopholes to import machine tools, parts and |

| |military technology from the EU. |

| |Britain’s immigration policy has essentially not seen any fundamental changes since the Immigration|

| |Law was adopted in 1971. |

| |When I first applied for the exchange, I only knew that the country had diplomatic ties with Taiwan|

| |and that it had a strong Latino culture. |

| |This every so often will cause a personnel shock when someone experienced leaves. |

| |When I switched on the TV and saw legislators, whom we call self-serving politicos, tell reporters |

| |that a certain professor of the Democratic Action Alliance is a scumbag, I became a bit depressed. |

| |When Chinese President Hu Jintao first came to power, he proposed the slogan “peaceful rise,” which|

| |he later on changed into “peaceful development;” for fear that no one would heed “peaceful” while |

| |focusing all attention around the word “rise.” |

| |Then when they have graduated or go on vacation, they are saddened by having left their good |

| |friends behind. |

| |On June 6, 1994, when the Allied Forces landed in Normandy they met with fierce German resistance. |

| |Taiwanese talent began to markedly increase as late as the 1990s, when talented people returned |

| |from studies in the U.S. to Taiwan, reaching three to four times the numbers of the 1970s. The |

| |repatriates mainly gathered in the Hsinchu Science Park. |

| |Often, when public incidents occur, the public appears at a loss over how it should respond, if |

| |leaders have not voiced their stance. |

| |Every day when we switch on the TV set or leaf through the newspaper, we all experience a deep |

| |sense of powerlessness, but are, nonetheless, are unable to say why we feel like this. |

| |For instance, when Lien Chan visited China recently, it appears that we hardly discussed what was |

| |right or wrong with this trip in terms of democratic procedure. |

| |When Lien Chan visited China recently, he summed up Taiwan’s democratization as populist, which |

| |means Taiwan’s democracy amounts to populism. |

| |For example in 1988, one year after the lifting of martial law, when (President) Chiang Ching-kuo |

| |had also just passed away, a certain Professor Chou Yang-sun wrote an article in the United Daily |

| |News. |

| |Now, however, it appears that their hopes have again hit rock bottom, and it’s not known when we |

| |will finally be able to truly make a step forward. |

| |When the Japanese rulers landed in Taiwan, a lot of native people rose in resistance, but quite a |

| |number of “outstanding people” who understood the times, knew how to ingratiate themselves to the |

| |new rulers and reap benefits from it. |

| |When the KMT had just arrived in Taiwan, Taiwan’s people enthusiastically welcomed them in an |

| |embrace of the motherland. |

| |When the KMT had just arrived in Taiwan, Taiwan’s people enthusiastically welcomed them in an |

| |embrace of the motherland. |

| |Daan Bank had an initial capital of 10 billion NTD when it opened for business on January 1st, |

| |1992. |

| |When the merger was announced on October of 2002, the combined business-banking loans of the banks |

| |totaled 178,932 billion NTD. |

| |To be more concrete, while the people do not necessarily understand the professional powers of |

| |public prosecutors and the systemic functions of the prosecution system, they nonetheless hope that|

| |the government can efficiently contain the situation when there are problems with domestic |

| |security, in particular when a major case happens, or when there is a series of illegal incidents. |

| |The story goes that Liu, who has endured hardships for most of his life after crossing the seas to |

| |come to Taiwan, left his Hunan home when he was forced into the military as a teenager. |

| |In the film the “big shock” happens when Liu Pi-chia’s aboriginal wife dies due to an illness. |

| |Liu Pi-chia took in the orphaned child when he married the boy’s widowed mother. |

| |When I saw this news and imagined the emotions that the descendents of those killed on both sides |

| |during those years had when meeting with each other, I couldn’t help being deeply touched by this |

| |move of ethnic reconciliation across the time and space of history. |

| |When several orangutans appear on the stage riding bicycles, the grandfather gets suddenly agitated|

| |and points toward a dwarf, who performs with the orangutans, loudly calling him “midget,” while |

| |rushing forward eager to talk with him. |

| |When the mountain people grew resentful, the Bunun people gathered for a discussion and decided to |

| |mount a full-blown attack against the dwarf people. |

| |When this time comes, we will be faced with some grave challenges or even the possibility that |

| |human culture will die out. |

| |In his book “Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil,” David Goodstein says that the true oil crisis |

| |will not arrive when we drill the last drop from the ground, but when the rate of extracting oil |

| |from the ground. |

| |Can you imagine what sort of life we would have to lead in Taiwan when the oil is all gone? |

| |Everyone can understand that when a frog is in a vat of water, if the water’s temperature rises |

| |gradually, it will not be sensitive to the changing temperature and ends up boiling to death. |

| |So when we can clearly foresee that oil resources are running out, should government officials and |

| |those that care sound a warning to get everyone to react? |

| |Looking back, we can say that 1979 marked a new wrinkle in the Cold War when the former Soviet |

| |Union was at the peak of its powers and, in an effort to extend its realm of influence, invaded |

| |Afghanistan. |

| |Still many scholars are unwilling to predict when Taiwanese universities will assume places among |

| |the top institutions worldwide. |

| |While western scholars engage in mutual criticism, when they do have the opportunity to cooperate, |

| |they overcome their differences and work together for the sake of genuine knowledge. |

| |When salaries and other incentives are not up to international standards, it makes it hard to |

| |attract the cream of the crop and is also a deterrent for young people to go into academics and |

| |research. |

| |On September 6 last year when he was still a candidate in Ukraine’s presidential election, |

| |Yushchenko attended a dinner at the invitation of a high-level security service official. |

| |During this “period of pain” when the policy is first being carried out, with the end point still |

| |far off into the future, public voices complaining or doubting the recycling measure have not been |

| |heard. |

| |Perhaps such integrative premiership skills could create a new atmosphere for Taiwan’s education |

| |and culture: a certain tolerance and self-confidence that slowly emerges after political passions |

| |have subsided and that is also able to lead society more precisely forward in a down-to-earth way. |

| |However, after his party did not nominate him as presidential candidate, his political thinking |

| |changed dramatically. |

| |After the French and Dutch referendums successively rejected the Treaty Establishing a Constitution|

| |for Europe, the European Union summit in mid-June also ended in controversy. |

| |Moreover, after China enacted its anti-secession law, the EU decided to temporarily uphold its ban |

| |on weapons sales to Beijing. |

| |Under such circumstances, we can see that after the ruling party changed, the elites outside the |

| |establishment all rushed into government, which immediately weakened our civil society and also |

| |quieted down our social movements. |

| |The conditions for democratic thinking have not yet matured, which made us begin doubting ourselves|

| |not long after the ruling party changed, asking ourselves, “Is all this the right thing?” |

| |They only began to resist the KMT after they had gotten a taste of the White Terror, but equally |

| |quite a number of “outstanding people” flattered the new rulers, gaining rights and privileges. |

| |After this was accomplished, Giant approached its main rival and other vendors to create the |

| |A-Team. |

| |After we finish reading “Taiwan Prison Island” we also understand that Ko Chi-hua has another |

| |weight on his mind. |

| |Even after the myth of communism was unmasked, the CCP did not erase its communist ideals from the |

| |party charter. |

| |After Hu made his concepts for the framework of a harmonious society known, the familiar obsequious|

| |flattery from other CCP members and the official mouthpiece media began. |

| |After the European Union expanded eastward last May, the United States not only began to rethink |

| |its political relationships with its partners across the Atlantic, but also began to heat up a |

| |trade war in the aviation industry. |

| |After the legislation takes effect, special administration districts will be set up for high |

| |elevation mountainous areas, medium elevation mountainous areas and low elevation mountainous areas|

| |as well as river regions, shorelines, offshore islands and regions where there is serious land |

| |sinkage. |

| |Against this backdrop it is not difficult to understand why the Soviet Union hardly loosened its |

| |grip on Ukraine even after it became independent in 1991 following a referendum. |

| |It will probably be possible to partly realize these new measures after the new president takes |

| |power. |

| |It took until 1991 before Ukraine elected its first president. |

| |The communist regime of East Germany collapsed in August 1989, while the Czech Republic ejected |

| |political dissident Vaclav Havel its president in December 29 of the same year. |

| |Due to diplomatic and strategic considerations in inter-governmental relations amid this process, |

| |an increasing number of grassroots and advocacy non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are |

| |participating in development projects, while the voices of women and the grassroots are growing |

| |stronger and have begun to penetrate the development issue. |

| |Then it was up to businessmen to create new markets while the military protected their interests |

| |and missionaries as well as other cultural educators tamed any colonial protests. |

| |As she began to tour Iraq, Israel and Pakistan, the U.S. began to display an attitude that differed|

| |vastly from that of the past. |

| |China is countering peace as it rises. |

| |As we virtually can’t see any new directors, the fault (in Taiwanese cinema) is very obvious. |

| |As they face challenges and change, companies will ponder where their new markets are. |

| |It does not compile a budget or have designated staff at all, as there is only one fulltime staff |

| |from the Child Welfare Bureau who concurrently does secretarial work for the Committee. |

| |As I am sharing here with you today my few experiences I would also like to appeal to everyone |

| |“Let’s together appreciate, encourage, and support national film.” |

| |Actually our Ministry of National Defense has been very worried all along, since the EU last year |

| |began to plan for lifting the embargo. |

| |For example, since I returned to Taiwan and began to cooperate with director Tsai Ming-liang, |

| |virtually every single movie that he made was foreign-funded; if it wasn’t French investment, it |

| |was Japanese or Italian investment. |

| |He said it had been a long time since he had had to reach out to turn the pages himself, but when |

| |he watched “The Wayward Cloud” he felt that way. |

| |Police sent the case to the Social Affairs Bureau for punishment on charges of violation of the |

| |“Children and Youth Welfare Law,” since the MOI in September last year listed sex shops as off |

| |limits for people under 18 years of age. |

| |On February 14, in particular, when the market reopened with gains after the Lunar New Year |

| |holiday, foreign investors bought Taiwanese stocks like crazy spending NT$20.453 billion, thus |

| |posting the second highest net buying record for a single trading day. |

| |When French President Jacques Chirac visited China in 1997, he signed a joint declaration with |

| |China, which stated that the two sides want to march toward a strategic partnership in the 21st |

| |century. |

| |When we looked at newspapers or any other public discourse opposing a lifting of the embargo, we |

| |found that in discussing the consequences of a lifted embargo most only mentioned China’s human |

| |rights problem, while few mentioned security in the Taiwan Strait. |

| |When gender mainstreaming came up in the 1990s, it underlined a transformation of thinking on |

| |gender equality rights. |

| |When Vice President Annette Lu served as legislator she took some action with regard the 1995 |

| |Conference on Women in Beijing. |

| |Over the past 400 years of Taiwanese history, Taiwan’s economy and agriculture developed better |

| |when Taiwan had less contact with the Chinese mainland. |

| |For instance in 1949, when the Kuomintang retreated from China, it adopted a three no policy, |

| |cutting off all relations with China. |

| |When a small economic entity links up with a very large economic entity, it is usually not the |

| |small economy reaping the benefits, but the larger economy siphoning off the smaller economic |

| |entity’s benefits. |

| |When we went to Geneva in 1997, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was truly not familiar with us. |

| |We would go to the WHA venue early in the morning and put up banners, but when we wanted to enter |

| |the venue in the afternoon of the following day, the security guards would not let us in. |

| |Last year’s movement gained a major breakthrough, when the United States and Japan expressed |

| |support for Taiwan's WHO entry. |

| |For instance, when the new Pope was elected, my first thought as a news worker was that we should |

| |go and interview him. PTS in particular should send someone to interview him in order to expand on |

| |the one hand the Taiwan people’s vision, and on the other hand to write a piece that represents our|

| |own viewpoint. |

| |When audiences watch these movies they don’t need to give them much thought or reflect on them. |

| |If you read a lot of comic books when you were little and then suddenly you’re given a book with |

| |somewhat more written words, you will probably say you can’t understand, because you’re already |

| |used to reading stories that are told in pictures. |

| |When we talk about social economy, many people might think about the European Economic and Social |

| |Committee of the European Union. |

| |When the oil crisis happened in the 1970s, countries around the world used Keynesian economics, |

| |which meant that the government acted as locomotive, hiring workers on a large scale to expand |

| |employment and bring down the employment rate. |

| |Moreover, in the past the unemployed were likely also cared for by their families, because when |

| |people lost their jobs in the big cities, they went back to their homes in the countryside to plant|

| |mandarin oranges. |

| |When the time comes for relevant specialized agencies to act and handle youth affairs across |

| |various ministries, I am afraid that this won’t be easy. |

| |In fact, when the illness can be controlled, if we then don’t help a patient to rebuild his life as|

| |quickly as patient to rebuild his life as quickly as possible, the person’s life is over. |

| |Recently the Bureau of Labor Affairs has come up with a very unreasonable system, stipulating that |

| |patients require a referral from a physician when they want to enroll in a community rehabilitation|

| |mechanism. |

| |It was in early 1998 when Vincent Siew served as premier. |

| |In 1517 when Martin Luther began his religious revolution, northern Germanic city-states began to |

| |break away from the control of Rome and switched to the Protestant faith, which also marked the |

| |start of a battle for sovereignty between Protestant and Catholic states. |

| |When it was first established, the U.N. had only 51 member states, but that number increased |

| |steadily as many former colonies and Imperial territories began to gain independence. |

| |In fact, when the women’s groups promoted this bill back then, their main concern was the problem |

| |of sexual assault that women faced in the public sphere (public venues and the work place) and the |

| |commonly faced problem of marital violence in the private sphere (here this means the family). |

| |The first time that violent behavior between spouses became a topic of public discussion dates back|

| |to March 17, 1994, when (legislator) Pan Wei-kang submitted the draft of the “Sexual Assault |

| |Prevention Act” during the seventh meeting of the third session of the 2nd Legislative Yuan and |

| |during the meeting got into a verbal confrontation with male lawmakers and government officials |

| |over the concept of “sexual autonomy.” |

| |The former mainly states that when police execute protective orders, the right of arrest should be |

| |appropriately expanded to offenders in domestic violence cases who are “not caught flagrante |

| |delicto,” to safeguard the victim’s interest. |

| |When I arrived in France I harbored a longing to study films and particularly adored French films. |

| |But when I was there I was, nonetheless, deeply attracted by the nation’s tradition of humanist |

| |thought. |

| |You are probably familiar with this way of putting it, as this is what Lee Teng-hui was talking |

| |about when he said he discovered that the latter half of his life was not about Lee Teng-hiu, |

| |meaning a Lee Teng-hui that does not belong to “the smaller self Lee Teng-hui,” but to the “the |

| |bigger self Lee Teng-hui.” |

| |The festival’s suspension continued until World War II ended in 1945, when the French government |

| |was immediately eager to reopen the festival. |

| |Last time, when I chatted with my boss, that is the French producer who invested in “The Wayward |

| |Cloud,” I asked him why he liked to invest in Taiwanese movies? |

| |I remember when I worked at the TV station, if one guy reported two votes for a candidate, the guy |

| |next to him might change that to three. |

| |When we talk about media self discipline, it’s more of a structural problem. |

| |After gender mainstreaming began to be promoted, funding increased, but civic groups also fuss over|

| |being incorporated (into other organizations). |

| |After Taiwan joined WTO it was always caught up in an atmosphere of “Bde-agriculturization.” |

| |After China recently adopted the anti-secession law, it drew fire from world-wide public opinion. |

| |Only after the tidal wave claimed the lives of many Scandinavians did they begin to get a feel of |

| |how close mutual relations have become. |

| |The application was only approved after Cheng (Tsun-chi) took over as director of the Taipei City |

| |Government’s Bureau of Labor Affairs. |

| |After foreign militaries left the area, Germany was finally able to formally regain its status as a|

| |normal, independent nation. |

| |A women’s group worker recalled during the interview that male lawmakers lashed out at the draft |

| |“Sexual Assault Prevention Law” after it was submitted to the Legislative Yuan, denouncing it as “a|

| |bill that destroys domestic harmony.” |

| |In terms of currency holdings, the NT dollar will likely take a large lead in appreciation, before |

| |the Yuan starts to strengthen. |

| |The first to enter the field this year were the won and the NT dollar, which will probably be |

| |followed by the mainstay yen, before other Southeast Asian currencies will come on. |

| |It took until the latter part of the 19th century before things gradually developed into an |

| |improved national health situation and increased average lifespan that we see today. |

| |Moreover, Hu wants to attach a lot of conditions before Taiwanese agricultural products can be sold|

| |to China. |

| |Many people who want to shoot movies, start with commercials before they have enough money and |

| |personal connections (to shoot films), because Taiwanese cinema per se does not have a systematic |

| |form. |

| |Before the war began, Hitler annexed Austria and then attacked the German areas of Czechoslovakia |

| |in a bid to unite the German-speaking parts of Europe. |

| |When Ju asked his assistant to issue the press release, he claimed he was in a rural part of the |

| |Fujian province and was unable to make contact with Taiwan to clarify the situation. |

| |Hsieh was commenting on the brewing controversy over plans by the Ministry of the Interior to |

| |require all citizens 14 and older to be fingerprinted when they apply for the new national citizen |

| |identity cards that will be issued beginning July 1. |

| |He was driven to report the situation to the police on Saturday when someone early that morning |

| |threw a brick that smashed through the window of his parents’ second-floor residence in Pingjhen |

| |City. |

| |Wang didn’t seem to mind being relieved by Tom Gordon when he was pulled with a runner on in the |

| |top of the eighth inning and the Yankees up 7-2. |

| |When the first incidents happened, the CGA found itself accused of being powerless to protect |

| |fishermen, so it made its case with numbers. |

| |When President Chen left Taiwan for the Vatican on the afternoon of April 7, he turned another leaf|

| |in Taiwan's diplomatic history as the first incumbent ROC president to set foot in Europe in almost|

| |half a century. |

| |When the Pope visited Jerusalem, he embraced Jewish and Muslim leaders. |

| |Even when he was ailing, he criss-crossed the world preaching the gospel of forgiveness, love, |

| |justice, and peace. |

| |A total of 56 people were injured – two of them seriously – when an EVA Air plane was hit by |

| |turbulence as it approached Tokyo’s Narita International airport late afternoon on March 28. |

| |Taipei City Councilor Wang Yu-cheng shoked local residents on Friday when he accused local |

| |restaurants of buying the offerings mourners left at local funeral parlors and serving them to |

| |their customers. |

| |Wang’s allegations were called into question the next day, when officials from city police, social |

| |welfare and health agencies tried to visit the few establishments fingered by Wang on Thursday. |

| |Four members of the Chunghwa Telecom Workers’ Union were arrested during a scuffle with police when|

| |the union staged the first-ever strike within the state-run Chunghwa Telecom to protest the |

| |company’s uncoming issuance of American Depository Receipts and subsequent privatization scheduled |

| |for June. |

| |A scuffle ensued between the strikers and the 470 policemen who were already in place at the |

| |company headquarters when the protesters showed up. |

| |CTWU gained the right last December to organize strikes, when more than 17,000, or 60 percent of |

| |the union membership, passed a resolution granting the union the right to strike. |

| |Three drivers were trapped when the landslide engulfed their trucks on the road from Taishan to |

| |Linkou in Taipei County. |

| |Two landmine clearing experts from Zimbabwe were killed when they accidentally triggered a powerful|

| |explosion while removing landmines on Kinmen Island, according to police. |

| |Initial investigations show that the accident happened when the experts were handling landmines |

| |being removed, police said, adding that it remained unclear what triggered the explosion. |

| |But when troop reinforcements arrived from China in the second week of March 1947, the regime |

| |launched a crackdown on the local population, leaving thousands dead. |

| |When Lee returned the book, he included an NT$12,000 Mont Blanc fountain pen as a gift for the |

| |legislator. |

| |The CDC predicts that with the experience of battling SARS in 2003 under its belt, Taiwan won't |

| |panic when bird flu strikes. |

| |Chang’s wife Wang Yueh-hsia, along with 15 former Yunlin County Councilors and Chen Kuo-yi, who was|

| |Chang’s running mate when he ran for Yunlin County Speaker, were all found guilty, each receiving |

| |seven to ten months of imprisonment. |

| |The proposal, put forth by Sao Tome and Principe and Belize, is expected to be raised for |

| |discussion when the WHA’s General Committee meets May 16 to set the agenda of the assembly. |

| |The CIB chief also confirmed that the suspect was standing in the hot zone of the crime scene, |

| |identified by forensic expert Dr. Henry Lee as the most likely location of the unknown gunman when |

| |he fired the shots. |

| |He was found when police followed a lead provided by a passer-by, who told the police yesterday |

| |afternoon that he saw a person who looked like Ni hanging dead on a tree, policeman Chang |

| |Kuo-hsiung said. |

| |According to the police, Ni had been dead for 10 days when he was found, Yu said. |

| |Voters found it difficult to understand the constitutional amendment proposals involved in the |

| |National Assembly elections, and paid little attention to the poll when it took place on May 14; |

| |turnout was also impacted by the inclement weather on that day. |

| |The new deduction and exemption levels are expected to be implemented when taxpayers declare their |

| |income taxes in 2007 for…. |

| |When the remainder of an incarcerated magistrate’s term is less than two years, the Executive Yuan |

| |is legally permitted to assign a government official to serve the rest of the tenure. |

| |The suicide attempt rate in Taiwan tends to escalate during the period October to April when the |

| |northeastern seasonal wind blows over the island, the Taipei Lifeline Association said yesterday, |

| |claiming that a series of suicide cases recently might have been related to the seasonal factor. |

| |This was certainly the case when Wang, as an above-average high-school prospect, suffered an arm |

| |injury during his third year of high school that kept him from playing for over a year. |

| |“We just didn’t want to jump to a decision over the request (last week) when the DOH has no idea |

| |about the American doctors’ thinking or their prescriptions,” she said, contradicting reports that |

| |the DOH had refused the family’s request. |

| |But the family was unwilling to pay the NT$4,500 a bottle of oil costs in Taiwan when the brothers’|

| |original prescription ran out. |

| |More than a million bottles of “Wild Bull” energy drink were recalled yesterday after four people |

| |who downed the beverage from bottles labeled “toxic” suffered from cyanide poisoning. |

| |After Chu went to the police, and the media broke the story, the blackmailer called Chu again and |

| |told him to keep quiet or he and his family would suffer the consequences. |

| |Police traced Chen Yi-hsiung three months after they found the maker of the two home-made bullets |

| |used in the shooting of March 19, 2004, according to Hou Yu-ih, commissioner of the Criminal |

| |Investigation Bureau and a key member of a special task force probing the shooting. |

| |He indicated he and his daughter were seriously threatened after the scandal was exposed. |

| |The new decision to cancel coverage of the cost of non-prescription medicines was made after the |

| |Control Yuan issued several reprimands over the BNHI’s failure to implement the relevant section of|

| |the law. |

| |After Chu paid the blackmailers NT$1.1 million to get rid of them, they continued to demand more |

| |money, and early on the morning of May 8, they threw a brick through the second-floor window of his|

| |family’s residence in Taoyuan County. |

| |Chu turned up at yesterday’s press conference after local media disclosed a videophone conversation|

| |between him and Cher. |

| |After Wang admitted the sham he quickly became the object of intense public criticism. |

| |The news comes after he was convicted by the Supreme Court for his role in vote-buying in 1994. |

| |Lin Song-huann, director of MOFA’s Department of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, made the remarks |

| |after nearly 50 Taiwan fishing boats converged in waters between the Tiaoyutais, a tiny group of |

| |islets lying about 75 nautical miles northeast of Keelung, and Pengchiayu, about 25 nautical miles |

| |off Keelung harbor earlier in the day to protest against Japanese patrol ships, which are often in |

| |the area to chase them away. |

| |Yu Tien, a famous singer in Taiwan, rushed to Toucheng shortly after he received the information. |

| |The station cited information from the Bureau of Immigration under the Ministry of the Interior, |

| |which revealed Wang had left for China one day after he allegedly laced the “Bullwild” drinks with |

| |cyanide and returned to Taiwan on May 24. |

| |After Premier Frank Hsieh convened a meeting of officials from relevant ministries including the |

| |Minister of the Interior Su Jia-chyuan and Financial Supervisory Commission Chairman Kong Jaw-sheng|

| |yesterday afternoon, the contentious anti-crime policy of capping non-designated transfers via ATMs|

| |to curtail fraud was eventually finalized. |

| |The suspended Yunlin County Magistrate Chang Jung-wei will be officially relieved of his post, |

| |after the Supreme Court yesterday announced its verdict in a 1994 case of vote buying during the |

| |Yunlin County Council Speaker election. |

| |Teachers and examinees generally felt that test questions were relatively easy in most subjects |

| |after more than 300,000 junior high school students completed a two-day proficiency test yesterday.|

| |Taiwan’s Department of Health will continue supplying Lorenzo’s Oil for free to three brothers |

| |suffering from ALD after their doctors in the United States confirmed that use of the oil would not|

| |conflict with their current course of treatment. |

| |The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taipei announced Wednesday afternoon that President Chen would |

| |attend the funeral, after Italian authorities agreed to issue visas to “President Chen and Minister|

| |of Foreign Affairs Mark Chen. |

| |Doubts had been raised regarding Taiwan’s diplomatic ties with the Holy See after the Financial |

| |Times reported this week that a secret envoy from the Vatican was in Beijing discussing the |

| |possibility of establishing official ties with Chinese authorities last week. |

| |It has been said that the ruling and opposition parties must mend fences with each other before |

| |cross-strait reconciliation can be possible. |

| |Before the problem is solved, Taiwan should continue to maintain its claim on the Tiaoyutais and |

| |request that the Japanese keep to the status quo. |

| |Before President Chen arrived at the Vatican, his image was seen on a big screen on St. Peter's |

| |Square. |

| |The turbulence occurred about 18 minutes before the Taiwanese flight, BR2196, landed at the Narita |

| |airport. |

| |The CTWU claims that the company is not following the regulations in a legislative resolution which|

| |requires the company to sign a “collective contract” with the union before privatizing so as to |

| |ensure protection of the rights and interests of the company’s employees before a private entity |

| |takes over. |

| |Dr. Lee long-wook, Korean secretary-general of the WHO, warned that it is only a matter of time |

| |before a bird flu pandemic occurs among humans; the results may be catastrophic, making SARS pale |

| |in comparison. |

| |The Ministry of Interior said it would have to wait until it receives official notice from the |

| |Supreme Court before it could relieve Chang of his duties. |

| |Yesterday’s court verdict said inspectors failed to examine the building materials for the Tsung |

| |Hsing Building before the concrete was used. |

| |While opposing hitters can get the bat on the ball when Wang is on the mound, most can only hit |

| |weak taps that are caught before the ball leaves the infield. |

| |Nevertheless, a ranking official of the International Archery Federation (FITA) requested that the |

| |ROC team not use the national flag just before the opening ceremony began. |

| |Paparazzi became part of the culture since a Hong Kong business tycoon founded the Apple Daily and |

| |the Next weekly in Taiwan a few years ago. |

| |It's been five years since Chen Shui-bian defeated the long-term ruling party the KMT to take the |

| |presidency in 2000. |

| |Three more people were found dead yesterday as a result of the torrential rains that have battered |

| |Taiwan, bringing the total to five, while the government declared a “red alert” for 216 rivers on |

| |the island, fearing the possibility of further landslides. |

| |On Jade Mountain the snowfall was recorded at a record 168 centimeters, he said, while snow also |

| |fell for the first time in living memory in some areas such as the notable scenic resort Shenmu |

| |Village in Sinyi Township, Nantou County at altitudes of just 600 to 900 meters. |

| |It is estimated that more than a million followers will join the pilgrimage along the way, as it |

| |travels through Cingshuei, Shalu, Jhanghua, Yuanlin and Siluo. |

| |Early yesterday morning, tens of thousands of worshippers lining the streets in Dajia cheered as |

| |men in red shirts carried the wooden palanquin of the sea goddess Matsu out from the Jhenlan Temple|

| |for an eight-day tour of six sister temples around the island. |

| |Around 5,000 union members from 16 domestic banks gathered in Taipei yesterday to fight for better |

| |working conditions and protect their interests, which they believe will be sacrificed as the |

| |government steps up the pace of consolidation in Taiwan’s financial sector. |

| |“But I found my rhythm in the fourth inning,” Wang recalled as he thanked pitching coach Mel |

| |Stottlemyre for “picking up the control problem, and reminding me to deliver at a higher release |

| |point.” |

| |Although Taiwan and Italy don't maintain diplomatic relations, as President Chen applied for and |

| |obtained a visa and cleared customs, he was accorded courteous treatment by the highest levels of |

| |the Italian government. |

| |A total of 56 people were injured – two of them seriously – when an EVA Air plane was hit by |

| |turbulence as it approached Tokyo’s Narita International airport late afternoon on March 28. |

| |Premier condemns airport violence as Lien begins China trip. |

| |Premier Frank Hsieh condemned the violence at CKS International Airport that broke out as |

| |Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan left for China for a week-long visit. |

| |The world has no choice but to sit by and watch as wallets shrink and buying power declines. |

| |Many people on local Internet bulletin boards and some members of the community disagreed with |

| |Chang’s stance, saying the massive donations had already given the family a major advantage over |

| |other families of ALD sufferers, many of whom are facing severe financial hardships as they seek |

| |treatment for their loved ones. |

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| |All the heavy-duty stage equipment and all the exhibits have to be packed away, while all the |

| |collected toys have to be filed. |

| |Fathers had to carry tanks of water on their backs, while the children attacked the other families |

| |with water guns. |

| |Lai points out that 30 to 50 minutes are spent examining a patient abroad, while in Taiwan a paltry|

| |three to five minutes is given to the examination. |

| |Chinese architecture, in the form of old private schools and temples, dots the crowded urban |

| |landscape of Kuala Lumpur, while Malay and Chinese shop signs stand side by side. |

| |Because Malay is the national language, schools that teach in Malay are called "national primary |

| |schools," while the others are called "national-type primary schools." |

| |At most Chinese-medium primary schools, the government pays teachers' salaries and regular |

| |expenses, while the board of trustees is responsible for operating expenses, physical maintenance, |

| |expansion of facilities, and the like. |

| |Healthy seniors “live in retirement” while disabled seniors “receive care.” |

| |It will offer a preferential interest rate on savings to safeguard senior’s savings, while the |

| |accrued interest can be used against the monthly costs of care. |

| |Gathering together on May Day, some people go into the streets to fight for their rights, while |

| |others stand up on platforms and are honored. |

| |Chen Chin-hsien explains that Singapore and Canada want small fruit of "special" quality, while |

| |Shanghai consumers, like Taiwan consumers, prefer large atemoyas, and the X-large grade is meant |

| |for them. |

| |In the early days, important buildings like the school and shrine had tiled roofs, while ordinary |

| |citizens lived in wooden houses thatched with straw. |

| |After the opening of the Alishan Mountain Railway, cypress wood became easier to obtain, and this |

| |style of building gradually gave way to the Japanese-style guesthouses we see there today, with |

| |walls crafted from a combination of bamboo, clay, and straw, while the outer walls had an extra |

| |layer of interlocking cypress wood. |

| |What's interesting," says Yang, "is that while birthrates are generally falling in industrialized |

| |societies, they are falling less in Northern and Western Europe, where having children while |

| |cohabiting is acceptable, than they are in Southern European nations like Italy and Spain, or East |

| |Asian nations like Japan and Taiwan. |

| |The Chinese term translates literally as “thirst disease,” referring to one of diabetes’ most overt|

| |signs, while another more vemacular name is “rich man’s disease.” |

| |Their eldest daughter developed diabetes when she was one year and three months old, while their |

| |second daughter was stricken at age ten. |

| |Now, she gives herself five injections of insulin a day, and managing her diet is getting easier |

| |and easier, while her fainting spells have become less frequent. |

| |In the past, medical training emphasized the care of patients with acute or severe symptoms, while |

| |it provided less hands-on training for the care of chronic diseases. |

| |As at other dialysis centers, the clinic’s morning shift sees mostly older patients, while |

| |afternoon patients—who are typically part-time workers or those without regular work hours—are |

| |fewer in number. |

| |Some people close their eyes meditatively, while others read books or watch television as their |

| |dialysis proceeds, still others eat from take-out boxes as they receive treatment. |

| |Of An-Der’s 280-plus patients, the most “senior” has been receiving dialysis for nearly 30 years, |

| |while there are 70 other patients who have been getting the treatment for more than 15 years. |

| |Various restrictions should be eliminated, including those on the media, while monopoly industries |

| |should be opened to market competition. |

| |Taking the Executive Yuan as an example, while OECD countries have 12 to 18 ministries in their |

| |governments, Taiwan has 36 secondary agencies (ministries, councils, bureaus, and administrations).|

| |Of those, 240 were small suites, while the rest was made up of apartment buildings of all sizes, |

| |with prices ranging from over NT$2 million to NT$20 million. |

| |In addition, battery-powered streetcars transport riders among the six exhibition areas at the |

| |170-plus-hectare site, while fuel cell-powered buses connect the two main Expo |

| |venues--demonstrating the organizers' ambitions to highlight the importance of new power sources. |

| |Of the rest, 28.1% consisted of government subsidies, while 17.7% came from business and private |

| |donations. |

| |Over 200 rock bands from around the world come to take their turns onstage, while others play to |

| |smaller audiences off in comers. |

| |After they started to feel the pinch they got in touch with a publisher to discuss doing a book, |

| |while Chu Te-yung proceeded to became the earliest home office worker in Taipei. |

| |On the mainland, the company manufactures low-end products, while R&D and high-end manufacturing |

| |are done in Taiwan. |

| |The US government requires that CRT TVs be completely eliminated from the market by 2008, while the|

| |EU has adopted a 2010 sunset clause. |

| |The term NGO emphasizes organizations' roles as public organizations not affiliated with the |

| |government, while NPO emphasizes the fact that they are not motivated by profit, differentiating |

| |them from businesses. |

| |As the global NPO situation becomes more competitive, the bigger NPOs keep growing and pulling in |

| |more and more resources, while the smaller ones face the opposite, finding it ever harder to |

| |survive. |

| |As an example, Lin cites how the environmental and advocacy NPOs in America are losing momentum, |

| |while their comrades in Europe are going strong. |

| |Right now this rate is 1% a year, while the rate in Taiwan is 7% a year. Our target is 1%. |

| |The Ministry of the Interior regulates energy efficiency for the outside of buildings while the |

| |Bureau of Energy is responsible for promoting energy efficiency inside buildings in terms of air |

| |conditioning and lighting. |

| |According to British researchers, one person traveling one mile in an individual car consumes 8,100|

| |BTU, while the same person traveling the same distance in a public conveyance uses only 3,800 BTU. |

| |Moving one ton of goods one mile in a truck takes 28,000 BTU, while by train it takes only 670 BTU.|

| | |

| |This is partly covered by the membership fees paid by their over 9000 members, each paying NT$1000 |

| |a year, or half that for students, while some comes from their events, some from charity sales. |

| |Fathers are seen with heads lowered, trying to wipe away tears without being seen, while mothers |

| |just lose control. |

| |Meticulous planning has given the children's festival a considerable reputation overseas, but the |

| |behind-the-scenes price is not to be underestimated. |

| |The reason: after every year's celebrations everybody has not only been burnt to a crisp by the sun|

| |but they've also lost weight. |

| |Over the past ten years, the composition of practically all the work units has changed, but they |

| |still rely on standards and procedures that have been passed down, securely establishing them as |

| |Taiwan's No. 1 festival brand. |

| |Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. |

| |During the SARS outbreak, the number of patients seen at hospital outpatient clinics declined |

| |greatly, but the death rate did not increase. |

| |“It may be hard for you to imagine, but in some British cities, this sort of expensive equipment is|

| |completely lacking," says Lai. |

| |The family lives in straitened circumstances, but fortunately the two daughters have started |

| |working and send their parents a little something every month to help them with family expenses. |

| |Chen Feng-chu takes great comfort in Yung-chuan's all-round excellence, but she can't help worrying|

| |that as she and her husband become infirm with age, they will be unable to support his further |

| |studies. |

| |The same nomenclature used to apply to junior and senior high schools as well, but the word "type" |

| |was dropped in 1990, and all secondary schools run with government support are now known as |

| |national junior (or senior) high schools. |

| |The huge expense of running the schools has long been a big burden for the Chinese community, but |

| |the success of the undertaking is also their greatest source of pride, and the 55,000 students at |

| |the independent schools are seen as a "bastion of Chinese culture." |

| |She says most of her classmates would have liked to enroll at Tsun Jin, but their parents wouldn't |

| |let them because of the huge expense, and because it's tough to get into an independent secondary |

| |According to Chew Mei-fun, parliamentary secretary for the Minister of Women, Family and Community |

| |Development and an up-and-coming star in the Chinese political community, people from differing |

| |cultural backgrounds sometimes see things differently, but interaction and dialog can spark |

| |entirely new things and lead the way to a better future. |

| |Small shareholders were very insistent that Stan Shih should stay at the helm, but he wouldn’t |

| |change his mind, saying that company bosses had always passed the baton from generation to |

| |generation as a symbol of the company’s continued vitality. |

| |You have to save for a rainy day and be prepared for future challenges, but unforeseeable things |

| |will always happen, and when they do you just have to face them. |

| |Shih jests that he will naturally shoulder whatever responsibility comes his way, but he will also |

| |let others share responsibility because “it makes me feel better when everyone’s in the same boat.”|

| |A survey by the MOI’s Department of Social Affairs showed that in 2004 there was an elderly housing|

| |demand of 7,361 persons, but the number of units offered by both public and private sources fell |

| |far short of that mark, with places for only 1,545 people available. |

| |Mrs. Yang says that all her five kids were grown and had their own families, but her husband still |

| |like a lot of activity. |

| |The cost of Zhi-Shan is modest but the environment and equipment are in no way inferior to that of |

| |a five-star retirement home. |

| |“Being in a retirement home generally means being waited on, but we are proposing to create a new |

| |‘retirement culture.’ |

| |Some 500 buses serve MRT shuttle routes in Taipei, but those on the Green 1line are among the |

| |city's most advanced e-buses. |

| |Each month the agency receives compensation that amounts to 15% of temp workers' salaries, but they|

| |are not really living up to their responsibilities. |

| |To package the fruit into separate grades based on weight and quality seems complicated but it is |

| |actually done to meet differing overseas consumer demands. |

| |"The year before last there was a drop in the number of mangoes sold to Japan but the total |

| |monetary value rose," points out Huang Tzu-bin, director general of the international affairs |

| |department at the Council of Agriculture (COA). |

| |Because of typhoons last year there was a reduction to 5,000 tons but the monetary value rose |

| |rather than fell, reaching US$4.82 million. |

| |Taiwan papayas can be exported to Singapore, Canada, Malaysia and Hong Kong but Japan used the |

| |reason that Taiwan was an area infested with fire "oriental fruit fly" to drag their feet and not |

| |open their market. |

| |They approve your leasing the land for 50 years now, but then three years down the line, after |

| |you've made your investment, might they not just go back on their word, trump up some charge and |

| |then take over? |

| |"Right now the Taiwan butterfly orchid still occupies its niche on the world market, but the market|

| |is fairly competitive. |

| |In 1899 the Japanese company Kagata established a presence in the areas now known as Hsincheng and |

| |Shoufeng, with the intent of working in the sugar and camphor industries, but their efforts were |

| |frustrated by a number of factors, including the weather. |

| |Generation after generation have passed on, but now the Fengtien Community Association is working |

| |to gather the stories of the area's immigrants into a book series. |

| |The tale may be an old one, but as it is passed down it will continue to unfold and have new |

| |chapters added, never to end. |

| |A milk powder developed recently in Taiwan—Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF) milk powder—does not cure|

| |diabetes, but it does give diabetics and those in high-risk groups an alternative to conventional |

| |drugs. |

| |People with the most common type of diabetes—type 2 diabetes—are not insulin deficient, but their |

| |insulin receptors fail to respond as they should, preventing cells from metabolizing glucose |

| |effectively. |

| |In Hong Kong there is a defined contribution system but the contribution rate is 5%, which is lower|

| |than in Taiwan. |

| |People exchange looks and everyone knows what's going on, but no one wants to say anything. |

| |Hsiao-Y lives with her boyfriend near campus, but there's no way she'll say so around people older |

| |than herself or her coworkers. |

| |We've never come right out and told them, but they know. |

| |The awkward reactions cohabitants get from others reflect society's perspective--it's still a |

| |little bit taboo, but it's also becoming more acceptable. |

| |He and his girlfriend lived together for eight years and had planned to continue doing so till the |

| |end of their days, but in 2003 the pressure became too much and they married. |

| |The myriad feelings represented by a marriage certificate are hard to describe, but the questions |

| |that arise from deep in one's heart are even harder to answer. |

| |Only a few years ago, they were growing a lot of abalone along Taiwan's coasts, but they |

| |mysteriously started dying. |

| |Tsar Ching-ju puts it this way, "There are televisions in every home, but fly stations cannot |

| |survive without commercials. |

| |Chuang Yi-tseng and Yen Lan-chuan worked to bring Let It Be into theaters, but they were not |

| |looking entirely for box office figures. |

| |We had expected to be able to ship several batches of pineapples, but in the end all we could get |

| |was a single container. |

| |"American Washington apples spend 40 days crossing the ocean, but when they reach the consumer, |

| |they're still fresh and crisp," says Ho. |

| |This plantation produces delicious fruit, but there's one catch-all it takes is a typhoon coming up|

| |from the Hengchun Peninsula to cause major strife. |

| |Then in the 1980s, as the government turned their attention south, TPC's pineapples made their way |

| |to Indonesia, but the plantation there suffered after the sudden coup in the 1990s and staff were |

| |pulled out. |

| |In 1998 preparations were being made to invest in Hainan Island, China, but the company hit some |

| |financial bumps and regrettably had to drop those plans. |

| |In diabetics, not only are pancreatic secretions severely insufficient, but they lose their ability|

| |to respond dynamically to food intake, so that the patient must rely on medication to compensate. |

| |If I ate too much, my blood sugar would rise, but if I didn’t eat, I would faint. |

| |In past times, being overweight was a sign of affluence, but today it’s the source of numerous |

| |diseases. |

| |Tai points out that exercise not only burns calories but it also reduces the body’s resistance to |

| |insulin, allowing the hormone to exert its effects. |

| |If an appropriate diet is followed and the patient gets enough exercise, but blood sugar levels |

| |still cannot be brought under control, blood sugar reducing drugs must be added to the treatment |

| |regime. |

| |She was pregnant at the time, but the fetus died in her womb. |

| |As an example, NTUH has 20,000 diabetes patients to care for in a year, but it has only two nurse |

| |educators and one nutritionist, clearly insufficient for the caseload. |

| |. Above them are their beloved parents, but as they look below they see precious few people. |

| |An aging population, a decreasing birthrate and a consequent increase in the social welfare |

| |burden—people have long been tired of hearing such negative news but many neither want nor dare to |

| |think about how this unavoidable trend will affect our future. |

| |“It is difficult to say whether the concept of post-work society will stabilize and become a |

| |mainstream idea, but we must admit its existence, that we are dealing with multiple choices,” |

| |stresses Lin Wan-i. Most countries’ economies are fundamentally a mix of both manufacturing and |

| |service industries. |

| |The government talks about the age at which one receives a retirement payment or old age payment, |

| |or can apply to receive a pension from a private company, but this age is not the same as the |

| |actual age at which people stop working,” admits labor economics researcher Associate Professor |

| |Hsin Ping-lung of NTU’s Graduate Institute of National Development. |

| |But the MOI inquiry revealed at the same time a piece of very disquieting news: some 70% of working|

| |people aged 50-64 who are about to enter old age lack concrete plans for life after years does not |

| |necessarily mean a miserable and dreary old age but it certainly means there is no sense of |

| |security and represents a missed opportunity for financial planning, an important life lesson. |

| |The Cultural Arts Fund is low on manpower, but it is winning kudos for its achievements. |

| |Her physician recommended that she return to dialysis, but she resisted, unwilling to once again |

| |pass her days undergoing the treatment. |

| |DOH deputy minister Chen Tsai-chin said that as the hours for outpatient service said that as the |

| |hours for outpatient service are limited, restricting the number of persons who can register might |

| |qualify as “reasonable,” but patients requiring critical care cannot be refused, as this violates a|

| |physician’ duty to save patients’ lives. |

| |It’s not exactly the easiest place to make a living in either, but the locals get by—mostly working|

| |firing red bricks. |

| |Mrs. Li, who is now in her 50s or 60s, is in charge of the farm; she rears both ornamental fish and|

| |edible fish, but her biggest seller is turtles. |

| |The store seems to be nothing out of the ordinary, but a closer look reveals the company's logo |

| |intricately cast in the iron bars spanning the shop's windows--a testimony to Wante's former glory.|

| | |

| |When local Hsinchu specialties are mentioned, people today automatically think of pork balls and |

| |rice noodles, but 50 to 60 years ago, Hsinchu and the surrounding area was the center of Taiwan's |

| |face powder industry. |

| |On a business trip to Hsinchu from Taipei, a Miss Luo points out, "Wante is a hot topic on the |

| |Internet, but their products are completely unavailable outside of Hsinchu. |

| |Face powder used in the removal of facial hair was a key product when the firm was first founded, |

| |but today, it only makes up about 10% of income. |

| |Having seen her business bounce back from the edge of oblivion, Grandma Wante is frequently asked |

| |if the company has any plans for expansion, but she exclaims, "No. This is good enough the way it |

| |is. |

| |He would later obtain a position at Eric O. Moss, a renowned architectural firm in Los Angeles, |

| |where he worked on a number of well-known projects, but he could never get used to the idea of |

| |"architecture for architecture's sake.” |

| |It wasn't big, but it had character and the people of Ilan were encouraged to take part in the |

| |project." |

| |In the early years Taiwanese entrepreneurs concentrated on manufacturing, but in recent years they |

| |have also played a leading role in the development for the service sector. |

| |Since Uni-President opened its first factory in China in 1995, it has not only underscored its |

| |respect for local laws and regulations, as well as its ethical approach to management, but it has |

| |also consistently pursued a policy of “localizing management.” |

| |Most Taiwanese entrepreneurs cling to their own identity, but more and more Taiwanese |

| |businesspeople and their family dependents are also identifying with the local society. |

| |She adds, “Unless these Taiwanese firms solve the labor problem, they will always be relocating in |

| |search of greener pastures, but in the end they’ll succumb to the competition.” |

| |The Pearl River Delta is in decline, but the investment climate is improving at an astonishing rate|

| |in other coastal regions in China. |

| |There are too many other examples to cite, but all are based on the idea that the government |

| |coordinates itself in order to better serve the public, and not force the public to go from agency |

| |to agency seeking assistance. |

| |Lihsiangkuo may have come a long way from being just a dream, but as far as Pai’s concerned, it’s |

| |still got a way to go, and he’s almost afraid his dream will never be fully realized. |

| |“The artistic community I originally envisioned is still a way off, since my ideal was for art |

| |studios to prosper here, but at the moment there are more restaurants than studios, which is just |

| |kind of superficial and too consumer oriented,” laments Pai. |

| |The residents then tried digging a second, deeper well to get their water supply back to normal, |

| |but then the water company ran a pipeline out to the area, which sucked out the last of the water. |

| |For example, in the greater Taipei metropolitan area, the Mass Rapid Transit system is already |

| |quite convenient to use, but downtown areas remain plagued by congested traffic. |

| |“It is difficult to reach targets of 10 to 20% power savings for industrial products and motor |

| |vehicles, but it is easy to obtain considerable savings with little effort for buildings,” notes |

| |Lin. |

| |The electricity consumed by incandescent bulbs is not only three times greater that that for |

| |energy-efficient bulbs, but they radiate five times as much heat, making the substantial difference|

| |between them self-evident. |

| |This innovative new policy will help gradually make the country’s stock of buildings more energy |

| |efficient, but the regulations cover only new buildings. |

| |Charities are not restricted from making profits, but they have different objectives for making |

| |money. |

| |A monthly income of NT$10,000-plus may not seem like much, but it helps ease the burden on the |

| |family, while giving the individual a sense of accomplishment and direction. |

| |"It's one thing to create a festival, but you have to keep it up," says Kuo. |

| |He was supposed to get to the office in the evening but he always dragged it out to the last second|

| |before he would catch a taxi and make his way to the job. |

| |Recalling those days, he says he himself wasn't really aware of anything, but his more sensitive |

| |wife felt something was wrong. |

| |The creative life requires quiet, concentration, and interest; thus Chu Te-yung would normally |

| |throw himself into his drawings, but every time a holiday came along he was sure to pull out all |

| |the stops, go out and let off steam, and enjoy some relaxed leisure activity. |

| |His wife wanted him to stop drawing, but he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary until 1998, |

| |when his wife put her foot down and put a stop to all his book publishing and commercial projects, |

| |leaving only two or three signature cartoon strips. |

| |Like many artists, he was willing to run the risk of a temporary hiatus in this tough business, but|

| |it only made a comeback for him impossible. |

| |Chu doesn't understand why this should be so, but it is his happiest moment just before he falls |

| |off to sleep. |

| |He says the clothes he likes can all be mixed and matched but they must be a deep color and have a |

| |basic style. |

| |The deteriorating investment environment just now is a disincentive, but where are the new |

| |incentives? |

| |As to whether the Renminbi should be allowed to appreciate, I feel that by raising interest rates |

| |and adjusting the exchange rate they can undoubtedly reduce the money supply, but it will also put |

| |tremendous cost pressure on manufacturers. |

| |Therefore, I approve of the idea of adjusting interest and exchange rates, but the adjustment must |

| |be gradual to ensure a soft landing. |

| |"They all seemed to be medicines developed by the hospital itself but our only choice was to take |

| |it or not take it," she says. |

| |We'll go again if it's something small, but for something serious, we'll return to Taiwan. |

| |"Green lights all the way" certainly make things convenient, but it's still not enough. |

| |"My new office is more stylish than that of the director of Harvard University Hospital or |

| |Massachusetts General, but my management standards lag far behind. |

| |We can't catch up in one big jump, but we'll make gradual progress, and we'll have to do this in |

| |conjunction with a rise in the cultural level of the whole population. |

| |The skills of Taiwan doctors in this area are superior but there is a lack of organs. |

| |A friend of hers who gave birth in Suzhou arrived at the hospital in the early stages of labor, but|

| |the doctors wanted her to wait and come again in the afternoon. |

| |Taiwan's NPOs are undergoing a transformation, but are they being improved or ruined? |

| |"Everyone benefits from their services, but few people support them in tangible ways, either |

| |because they lack a sympathetic victim, or because people feel it’s not their responsibility." |

| |For some, tile commercialization of NPO is a trend, but others see it creating the risk of "mission|

| |drift." |

| |One would think that small donations would neither be stable nor amount to much, but they are a |

| |valuable expression of the public's goodwill and its sense that "we are all one family." |

| |I kept at it for a long time but it was too frustrating so I finally gave up. |

| |Many people mistakenly believe that creativity bursts out of nowhere to the sound of heavenly |

| |choruses, but that's not the case. |

| |If you don't know the basics, your creativity won't manifest itself, but if you've got a solid |

| |training in the basics, you'll be able to be creative on the spur of the moment as easily as riding|

| |a bike. |

| |It's true that it's important for a building to have a striking facade, but it's not the only |

| |thing. |

| |It's heaven's creation, but if you meet the criteria, heaven will manifest its work through you. |

| |More than 30 years ago, the quality of the Chang Lien-cheng's instruments was excellent, and the |

| |Japanese Yamaha Musical Instruments Co. expressed an interest in going into a partnership with |

| |Chang, but the idea came to nothing because the two sides failed to reach an agreement on the |

| |apportionment of shares. |

| |When his father died three years ago and he took over the enterprise, Chang Tsung-yao and his wife |

| |Wang Tsai-jui took stock and realized that in almost 60 years, the saxophone business had brought |

| |them neither great wealth nor great prestige, but it had enabled the whole family to be well fed |

| |and well clothed. |

| |Brimming with a 20-year-old's confidence, she says "I want play the sax like my dad, but I think |

| |I'll be an even better player! |

| |A long-term favorable outlook is stimulating investment, but all the same nobody can say with |

| |certainty where it's headed. |

| |The trouble is that these days many service industries, such as gas stations, department stores and|

| |domestic help and homecare services, need part-time manpower, but the Labor Standard Law (LSL) |

| |focuses on full-time workers and fails to protect part-time workers. |

| |To prevent this, it was suggested at the time that the retirement age be raised, but it wasn’t |

| |until the year 2000 that this was actually done. |

| |It's a high-risk undertaking, but if the marketing is handled well, the profits and brand |

| |recognition that can be built through this kind of work leave contract work for dead. |

| |We may be tired, but we have to fight on! |

| |I may have retired from the Central Motion Picture Corporation, but it's still a tiring life. |

| |In the past, Taiwan showed no interest in the problems of the world, but after the September 21, |

| |1999 earthquake struck the island, Taiwan saw the scale and capability of international |

| |organizations, and in the years since then a change has started to take place. |

| |The government looks at this part of the cooperation as protecting the public purse against fraud, |

| |but unfortunately it ends up making the organizations waste their precious manpower battling their |

| |way through paperwork. |

| |For example, the "Independent Lifestyle Scheme," worked on by the Taipei City Government in |

| |cooperation with the Garden of Hope Foundation originally planned to help support over- 18s who had|

| |completed the course with an NT$1000 monthly 1Mng allowance, but once funding was cut the |

| |foundation didn't want to abandon the kids, and just tightened its belt and continued funding them |

| |itself. |

| |NGOs used to act as monitors of the government, but now they're being "supervised" by the |

| |government, a turn of events which has caused major problems. |

| |Patrons in the business community are also a source of funds for NPOs which is in transition, but |

| |it's still something most of Taiwan's businesses are unwilling to commit to. |

| |Perhaps the environmentally conscious European Union can close its doors to GMFs for now, but even |

| |it will have difficulty resisting what is becoming a dominant trend. |

| |As the economy continues to develop, the balloon will expand a bit, but it won't burst. In the |

| |past, this balloon didn't even exist. |

| |The reduction strategy for residential, commercial and transportation sectors is keyed to energy |

| |saving and raising energy efficiency, but if hydroelectric and fuel costs are not adjusted upwards,|

| |won't this mean twice the work with half the results? |

| |European national income is twice that of Taiwan but their CO2 emissions are the same as ours. |

| |These are all conveniences that car owners enjoy, but the costs are born by the public at large and|

| |are not reflected in a reasonable way in the purchasing and operating costs of the automobile. |

| |Society has talked about the concept of "user fees" for quite some time but nothing has ever come |

| |of it. |

| |Most people think that Lu ought to advise rescuers whose spouses don't appreciate what their job |

| |entails to quit, but he tells them to follow their calling no matter what. |

| |In more than 20 years IHSART rescuers have braved untold dangers, but none has died in the line of |

| |duty. |

| |After becoming a tourist attraction, the Blasting Handan festival is still a Taitung tradition, but|

| |it is different from religious events such as the Mazu Festival and the Ship-Burning Festival in |

| |that it does not stress divine protection-participants get by on pure willpower and bravery. |

| |Banyan leaves are traditionally said to ward off evil, but here the branch is used by the Handans |

| |to block firecrackers, protect their eyes, and wave the smoke from their faces so they can breathe.|

| | |

| |A close look at the shirtless Handans after the ordeal reveals that not only are they shaking, but |

| |their chests are covered with welts and long, bloody scrapes. |

| |She says the first time Hsiao Hua took part in the festival she cried her eyes out, but after so |

| |many years, she's used to it. |

| |In the subtropics, Taiwan has pioneered green building, but in recent years only a small minority |

| |of enthusiasts has embraced this trend. |

| |This building style is suitable for temperate climates, but here in the subtropics it entails an |

| |enormous consumption of power. |

| |As a result, he not only developed excellent Western cooking skills, but he also laid the |

| |groundwork for creating fusion cuisine by drawing from the eight main styles of Chinese cooking. |

| |The sponsoring organization hadn't provided any MSG, but with just one bite he ascertained that one|

| |group's dish contained some MSG. |

| |Traditionally, it is prepared by first frying onions, then adding garlic and pepper, stir-frying |

| |briefly before flambeing with brandy, so that the alcohol is driven off but the scent retained, and|

| |finally adding a broth made by simmering bones with spices for a day. |

| |Chang's pepper sauce uses the exact same ingredients, but he adopts a different procedures: First |

| |he fries garlic and then adds onions, and before he adds the pepper he first roasts it briefly. |

| |As a child, Freddy studied classical piano, but when he started junior high school, he started |

| |getting into heavy metal. |

| |Formoz has become famous as an indie music event, but when it started 11 years ago, it was just an |

| |intercollegiate event held by the Northern Taiwan Rock Alliance. |

| |Their name cards are printed up with the imposing name of the bank, they enjoy labor insurance and |

| |health insurance, yet the overwhelming majority of them are not regular staff members of the bank. |

| |To maintain order in the banana export market and strengthen price negotiating power, in 1974 the |

| |government designated the Taiwan Fruit Marketing Cooperative to exclusively handle banana exports, |

| |yet over the next 30 years exports of bananas saw a steady decline. |

| |She would eat continually, but couldn’t sate her hunger, yet she shed five kilograms in a single |

| |month, so that looking at her in the mirror made her afraid. |

| |According to a Belgian study, diabetes patients have a 15 times higher risk of needing a limb |

| |amputation than normal persons, yet 75% of such amputations can be prevented. |

| |The fact is, Chu Te-yung is not a woman either, yet he was able to create the hugely popular "City |

| |Ladies" cartoon series and depict the female office worker's petty emotions and life to a "T" in a |

| |way that was just hilarious. |

| |Conditions in China have become key factors in the economic development of East Asia and the rest |

| |of the world, yet we still cannot regard it completely as the development of a market economy. |

| |Dr. Lin was the first Taiwanese health-care worker to die of SARS, but his case was far from |

| |unique, for in the three months of the epidemic 12 health-care workers gave up their lives, and |

| |over 90 more were snatched back from the jaws of death. |

| |To be sure, the Taiwan figure is behind that of the US (over 1,800) and Canada (1,600), both |

| |egregious water wasters, but it is 200-300 cubic meters more than France, Germany and neighboring |

| |Korea. |

| |At home, they speak Mandarin and Cantonese or Hokkien, but when they go out shopping they speak |

| |Malay, when they bump into Indian friends they speak Tamil, and with the local indigenous peoples |

| |they speak the native dialects. |

| |It might sound unbelievable, but it makes sense if you think about it. |

| |Founders of NPOs may be able to work without a salary, even digging into their own pockets, but |

| |what about employees? |

| |Everyone knows that NPOs are the conscience of society, but that doesn't mean that people in the |

| |NPO industry, be they idealistic founders or employees who just want to feed their families, are |

| |duty bound to sacrifice themselves for a greater cause. |

| |Perhaps it's because not enough people can access these wireless services, or the hot areas aren't |

| |big enough, or the applications offered aren't yet good enough, but so far this mobile era is |

| |little more than a sketch. |

| |We all chance upon cases of hardship now and again, but very few people ever pause on their hurried|

| |way to lend a hand to those in trouble. |

| |These last several years, perhaps it is the awakening of Taiwan volunteerism in the wake of the |

| |9-21 earthquake of 1999, perhaps the persuasive appeals of compassionate social workers, or maybe |

| |it's the need for doing something spiritual after all our material needs have been met, but more |

| |and more people are willing to give of their time, money and effort in the hope of doing a little |

| |something for society, in the hope that their…. |

| |There were ads for it a month in advance, but the turnout was pretty light. |

| |We followed a pretty map of traditional snack vendors but we could only find the usual grungy |

| |stalls, none specially decorated for the occasion. |

| |They didn't get a chance to spend Dragon Boat Festival with their families, but that seems to be |

| |the way it is with the new festivals: |

| |Traditional holidays emphasize reuniting with family, but these new events call people away to |

| |celebrate with strangers and share in a public memory. |

| |A city person like me probably couldn't even get through a single full day of the farming life, yet|

| |this farming couple did it all year round, growing bananas, pineapples, and mangoes, and in some |

| |years making barely a few thousand NT dollars profit. |

| |This tragic event once again showed us how suffering can destroy, yet volunteers from around the |

| |world raced to the scene to give assistance, winning our undying admiration for their selfless |

| |giving. |

| |The average Taiwan farmer owns just one hectare of land, which is not at an economic scale, and the|

| |price of land is 20 times higher than in Southeast Asia, while the cost of labor is ten times as |

| |much. |

| |This time, the country that presided over Europe’s draft constitution – France – sent it to the |

| |grave, while the Netherlands followed suit in rejecting it by referendum. |

| |Today, the Austronesian ethnic groups are gradually returning into Taiwanese society through |

| |intermarriage, while Western and Japanese skilled professionals often live in Taiwan in connection |

| |with their work and many Han people return to China also because of work. |

| |This figure accounts for one sixth of the total information industry workforce in the U.S. Of all |

| |H-1B visas issued in 1999, 65 percent were issued to Indian nationals, while 6.8 percent were |

| |issued to Chinese nationals, mainly for work in the field of information technology. |

| |Between 1994 and 2000 the number of people who immigrated on human rights or family grounds |

| |continued to decline, while at the same time skilled immigration rose continuously. |

| |Currently the international exchanges being mulled by the government mostly focus on university and|

| |academic exchanges, while little is being mapped out in terms of intergovernmental cooperation |

| |agreements on high-tech talent mobility. |

| |The strong are eternally right, while the weak are always wrong. |

| |Regrettably the media exposure of such lawmakers is high and in each election they are all able to |

| |win reelection with a super high vote count, while the respectful legislators find it very |

| |difficult to get reelected. |

| |Taishin Bank concentrated more on consumer banking, while Daan Bank concentrated more on business |

| |banking. |

| |Many are reluctant to transgress any bounds, while those who want to voice dissent continue to be |

| |marginalized and pushed to the back. |

| |Chirac is now busy smoothing over domestic turmoil in France while Schroeder has to worry about |

| |year-end parliamentary general elections in Germany after incurring crushing defeats in local |

| |elections. |

| |The U.S. demands that the EU cease its launch subsidies, while the EU is saying that they are loans|

| |that need to be paid back eventually with interest. |

| |Presently, only 25 nations in the world recognize the Republic of China on Taiwan, while the |

| |European Union is looking for ways to lift an arms embargo against China and build a strategic |

| |alliance with Beijing. |

| |Some people are quite willing to get a face-lift while others like new Ukrainian President Viktor |

| |Yushchenko are forced to get one against their will. |

| |Apart from that, I knew very little of the country, but I decided to explore the exotic culture in |

| |Costa Rica while I am still young, and learn about the world on the other end of the globe. |

| |Although, the course content was similar to what I have taken in the past, but the teaching method |

| |was noticeably livelier. |

| |We need to install a better human resources system, but now we only have few persons who have a |

| |idea of how to do it. |

| |Higher education urgently requires the injection of further funding, but we should pragmatically |

| |nurture outstanding academic talent. |

| |We can publicly discuss whether this precondition is right or wrong, but what is wrong is that |

| |there are some intellectuals in our society who call any thoughts that contravene this premise and |

| |ideology, and any political acts that run counter to this premise, populist. |

| |China’s rise is no longer a mere proposition, but a reality that is currently happening. |

| |Previously only Britain and Denmark would somewhat more often apply the breaks, but today even the |

| |driver himself knows that he should slow down. |

| |Back then Blair consented to this agreement, but now he nonetheless again takes up this issue to |

| |press France for concessions (on agricultural subsidies). |

| |A small number of people toil in the fishing industry or in other activities on the ocean, but they|

| |return to dry land for a break from time to time. |

| |In other words, requirements and qualifications should be strictly verified, but once an |

| |application has been approved, transnational talent should be granted maximum convenience and |

| |national citizen treatment or minimum red tape in terms of procedures and living. |

| |Currently the government is already drafting relevant immigration regulations, but it appears that |

| |their integration with a strategy of shaping the entire environment still needs to be strengthened |

| |and realized. |

| |Taishin Bank had a lower rate of non-performing loans than Daan Bank, but they were both within a |

| |controllable range. |

| |Many are also dispatched to schools to serve as office errand men, but even if they are lazy, the |

| |principal cannot do anything about it. |

| |We can for sure find certain hard evidence backing up Ko Chi-hua’s statements, but his descriptions|

| |are definitely difficult to apply to Liu. |

| |On their way home Lusiji rebukes his grandfather, but the grandfather asserts again that the dwarf |

| |whom they just saw is a true mountain aborigine. |

| |The latter are probably not at all able to deal easily with the word “reconciliation,” but their |

| |cases are equally about the deep scars of history. |

| |Thereafter, the Airbus Group began to gradually mature, but things became bleak for the entire |

| |industry after the events of September 11th, 2001. |

| |This would bring about inflation, but as long as people then cut down on unnecessary consumption, |

| |difficulties could be overcome. |

| |Europe has been the instigator of and site for the two bloodiest wars in the history of mankind, |

| |but nowadays European nations have already reconciled and begun to cooperate, becoming a |

| |flourishing region within the international community that respects democracy and human rights. |

| |China’s international legitimization began with the establishment of diplomatic relations with |

| |France in 1964, but this does not mean that the various European states will always endorse and |

| |support diplomatic policy with China. |

| |The underlining arguments can be summed up in this fashion: that the product is either too |

| |expensive or not worth the “real” value, yet because it is nevertheless a necessity in our daily |

| |lives, there is really no other choice but to find ways to get it for free or very little, if at |

| |all possible. |

| |Around the Lunar New Year holiday period (February 8-14) in particular, the U.S. dollar |

| |strengthened and bounced back, while the Japanese yen depreciated to below 105 Yen against the |

| |greenback. |

| |The U.S. has the world’s largest defense budget, while Japan ranks third. |

| |The U.S., Japan and Taiwan form one pole as an alliance of democratic, free political systems, |

| |while the other pole is an alliance of France, Germany, China and Russia, which stresses global |

| |geopolitical multipolar international relations. |

| |The Constitution assumes that those in power may abuse it, while those in power have no way to |

| |prove that they wouldn’t. |

| |Besides, as an analysis of gender differences in old age life construction in Taiwan found, male |

| |aging is a process of unloading responsibilities, while female aging means to keep taking on |

| |responsibilities and even to unfold a new life. |

| |In other words, during old age, men tend to want to take a good rest, they reduce their |

| |participation in labor and society and ignore the rest of the world, while women tend toward an |

| |active and exposed social life. |

| |To take agriculture as an example, our acreage totals 840,000 hectares, while China has 154.64 |

| |million hectares, which is roughly 183 times Taiwan’s area of cultivable land. |

| |Why is it that we don’t understand, while others do is a question worth considering. |

| |Many people think that so-called profit-making organizations are money-making organizations, while |

| |non-profit organizations are organizations that do not make money or should not make money. |

| |But in the 1980s, the EU’s (perceived) enemy shifted from the Soviet Union to the United States, |

| |while the definition of the so-called enemy changed from a military enemy to an enemy in the world |

| |trade market. |

| |Last year, Taiwan’s birthrate stood at an average 1.21 percent, while the disabled population |

| |including the elderly and the physically or mentally handicapped continues to increase. |

| |Insurance premiums will very likely rise next year, while it is increasingly difficult to run a |

| |health clinic. |

| |Frankly speaking, in comparison with innocent children, trouble-making youth clearly attract much |

| |less concern about their wellbeing, while a lot of their behavior is subjected to norms. |

| |In fact, among cases of marital violence, there is a quite high ratio of women who are battered |

| |because they found out that their husbands were cheating on them or because they do not want to |

| |accede to their philandering husbands’ demand for a divorce, while there are few cases where the |

| |husband is beaten because the woman has an extramarital affair. |

| |A total of 20 million people died in World War I, while World War II claimed the lives of 60 |

| |million people. |

| |Japanese film producers therefore very much like to invest in Hou Hsiao-hsien, while American |

| |producers like to invest in Edward Yang. |

| |It is still there, but its focus is gradually shifting to the second island chain of Guam (and the |

| |Marianas). |

| |But the cove, nonetheless, had him say unhappily, “Merci, y’all, but why the heck are you selling |

| |arms to China?” |

| |Gender mainstreaming has been in effect in Taiwan for a long time, but the conscious use of this |

| |word began only after the year 2000. |

| |Those at higher levels are able to obtain more resources, but if they have not done a good job |

| |designing grassroots growth, and even then resources can be wasted. |

| |This is because the law states that Taiwan nationals should affix a fingerprint when obtaining an |

| |identification card, but the current Executive Yuan policy is for everyone in Taiwan to acquire new|

| |cards as of July 1st, 2005. |

| |We have no reason to stop those who want to give their fingerprints to the government from doing |

| |so, but conversely, the government has no reason to force those who do not want to put their |

| |fingerprints on file. |

| |Even if I didn’t have an ID card, I could still exist in this society, but I would like the |

| |government not to assume that I am a criminal. |

| |The agricultural sector shrinks, but its value does not decline. |

| |Tourists think this is very romantic, but I don’t think that the farmers themselves feel that their|

| |lives are very romantic. |

| |It seems that there are already no work opportunities for people in their forties or fifties, but |

| |the cruel thing is that a lot of them still need to support a family. |

| |The Council of Agriculture has specialized personnel, but overseas assistance is not their major |

| |line of work. |

| |We would go to the WHA venue early in the morning and put up banners, but when we wanted to enter |

| |the venue in the afternoon of the following day, the security guards would not let us in. |

| |At the beginning we put up banners in front of the venue every year, always encountering wind and |

| |rain, but when we returned to our hotel the weather would take a turn for the better. |

| |Internationally Taiwanese cinema receives a fair share of attention, but we ourselves do not really|

| |recognize the unique cultural features of our nation. |

| |You will certainly all think it’s New York, Tokyo, or Washington, but in fact it’s none of them. |

| |In the past, these people were cared for by their families, but now families are no longer able to |

| |shoulder this heavy burden. |

| |The Lifeline Association was very happy to be awarded this project, but the association’s |

| |volunteers began to have doubts about their work. |

| |The Executive Yuan will probably make the current “Youth Advisory Committee” the platform for |

| |integrating policy across Cabinet agencies, but the current “Youth Advisory Committee” is only in |

| |charge of policy planning and has only advisory function. |

| |At election time, many candidates, regardless of party affiliation, say that they love Taiwan, but |

| |we have serious doubts about one point: If they love Taiwan, why don’t they respect things from |

| |Taiwan? |

| |They hope that the patients’ jobs are sustainable, but the entire environment does not operate that|

| |way. |

| |It should be the government’s duty to look after its people, but in the end it often turns out that|

| |the people have to get on their knees and beg. |

| |In the end, the group thwarted this hideous plan, but everyone who participated in the protests |

| |then had a certain dreamlike sensation: we felt that we had fought a horrifying war, but it was a |

| |war that only few people cared about. |

| |The dreadful plan of 1998 was fortunately thwarted, but this frightening story was not over at all.|

| | |

| |When it was first established, the U.N. had only 51 member states, but that number increased |

| |steadily as many former colonies and Imperial territories began to gain independence. |

| |What Pan wanted to discuss at the time was the “right to sexual autonomy” mentioned in the Sexual |

| |Assault Prevention Act, but the entire debate revolved around the “right to sexual autonomy between|

| |spouses. |

| |(At its summit) in Rome in 2004 the EU adopted the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe, |

| |but this does not mean that the adoption of the European Constitution has been completed as it must|

| |still be sent back to the member countries for approval by referendum. |

| |Many countries began to consider setting up film festivals, but the Venice Film Festival was the |

| |first film festival in the world to be set up with such forethought. |

| |In the promotion of Internet classifications, we are hoping for more self-discipline, but someone |

| |just mentioned this doesn’t seem possible. |

| |Of course a public media is not the absolute best, but we have already seen some rudimentary |

| |defects with market-oriented run media concerns in Taiwan today. |

| |For example TV stations used to broadcast false ballot returns during presidential elections, but |

| |after imposing more media self-discipline, this is no longer the practice. |

| |An open letter issued by the groups said they support peace and friendship across the Taiwan |

| |Strait, but they oppose using protected animals as a gift with political strings attached. |

| |Former Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Ju Gao-jeng was attacked in a restaurant in China |

| |early Sunday morning, but media reports conflict with a statement released by Ju over how seriously|

| |he was wounded. |

| |Since Ju did not appear in public yesterday, it was impossible to independently corroborate the |

| |reports, but Criminal Investigation Bureau deputy chief Kao Cheng-sheng confirmed that Ju was |

| |beaten by a group of people and was at the very least slightly injured. |

| |The Ministry of Justice aims to lower the ratio to 1:8, but such efforts would require hiring 2,617|

| |more people. |

| |Chu and those close to him adamantly denied the claim yesterday, but he admitted to the Taoyuan |

| |police on Saturday that he transferred NT$1.1 million to the extortionists at the end of April “for|

| |the safety of his family.” |

| |President Chen Shui-bian's journey of peace and mourning is over, but its impact is only beginning |

| |to be felt. |

| |Local cable station ETTV claimed it had downloaded the conversation from the Internet, but Chu said|

| |yesterday that he recorded the conservation and only gave it to the police to help with the |

| |investigation. |

| |Taipei Health Department workers went several times to the places cared on a list provided by Wang |

| |to determine whether illicit foodstuff come in, but their investigations showed that many of the |

| |eateries did not exist or had gone out of business long age restaurants that could be found posed |

| |no cause for suspicion as their food sources could all be traced. |

| |He further insisted that "cockroaches" did indeed exist, but his assistants hadn't able to catch |

| |them on film, so they had opted to shoot a "simulation"--a technique commonly employed by Taiwan's |

| |news stations. |

| |The only medication considered to be effective against avian influenza--Tamifiu--is flying off the |

| |shelves, but Roche Holding, which holds the patent to produce Tamifiu, can't make enough to meet |

| |demand in countries that can afford it, much less countries in Southeast Asia that can't afford the|

| |medication's high cost and where epidemics could erupt at any time. |

| |Tamiflu is only effective if administered within 48 hours of infection, but virus cultures require |

| |three to four days. |

| |Taiwan has made similar bids the last eight consecutive years through the assistance of its |

| |diplomatic allies, but the issue of Taiwan’s participation has been blocked by the General |

| |Committee on each occasion and has never been included in the assembly’s agenda. |

| |That was not necessarily the case with electricity, but the government would do its best to stop |

| |any increases. |

| |The impact or a variety of factors, both international and domestic, however, will make it |

| |difficult to keep consumer price inflation for this year below 2%, but an inflation rate below 3% |

| |should be tolerable. |

| |In light of a possible break in Taiwan bilateral ties with the Vatican in the future, a personal |

| |visit by Chen is necessary but the feasibility remains under discussion, Institute for National |

| |Policy Research Executive Director Lo Chih-cheng told the Taiwan News. |

| |“He played many good dramas all through his life, but his last show was a mistake,” Lu said, |

| |referring to Ni’s suicide. |

| |It was the first victory in which the pan-greens won over the pan-blues by a substantial margin, |

| |but President Chen stressed that the election symbolizes a victory for Taiwan's democratic reform |

| |and was not merely a contest between parties. |

| |This series of reforms has kept the president busy, but perhaps his toughest job is that of |

| |international relations. |

| |" During the process, Taiwan encountered its first deficit, as well as SARS, but it overcame these.|

| | |

| |President Chen said that the Chinese Communist Party still keeps a firm grip on the government and |

| |the military, but Taiwan is a democracy, and no one should put the party above the nation. |

| |The May 14 election for an ad hoc National Assembly election is less than a week away, but voters |

| |throughout Taiwan are showing a rare coolness, or even indifference, toward a democratic process |

| |that will decide on a package of constitutional amendments. |

| |Due to difficulties in obtaining a visa from the Italian government, president Chen had not met |

| |Pope John II in person, but first lady Wu Shu-chen attended Pope John Paul II’s Sunday Rosary at |

| |Castel Gandolfo, the pontiff’s summer residence, in 2003. |

| |People First Party Legislator Lin Te-fu said yesterday morning that there were only 52,232 |

| |prisoners at the end of last year, but that total had grown to 58,297 in the past six months. |

| |The people First Party and the Taiwan Solitary Union will each have three delegates give |

| |statements, while other parties or groups with fewer then five delegates will each have one person |

| |speak. |

| |The province-level election commissions are responsible for holding the polls for city and county |

| |chiefs, and city and county councils, while the county-level election commissions are responsible |

| |for organizing the elections for township majors. |

| |In terms of cities and counties, women in Taipei City were the oldest to marry for the first time |

| |at an average age of 29.2 years, while women in Changhua County married for the first time averaged|

| |25.5 years, or the soonest compared with other cities and counties. |

| |Quoting current government revenue tallies, Chen said that only one-quarter of the country’s tax |

| |revenues are collected from business, while three-quarters come from working individuals. |

| |Chen Yu-min, chief of the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan, said angrily that those who |

| |support accepting the gift view the offer as a gesture of peace and friendship, while those who |

| |oppose the offer argue that it is a political tactic and part of China’s “united front” strategy. |

| |During the fracas, DPP Legislator Wang Shih-chien jumped onto a passenger advisory counter and |

| |shouted that Lien was “a traitor to Taiwan” to cheering protestors, while New Party supporters |

| |lambasted aviation police for allowing Wang to enter the off-limits area. |

| |According to the association, it usually receives over 1,000 calls for help per month from |

| |potential suicide victims during the October to April period, while the number falls significantly |

| |outside that period. |

| |According to the association’s 2004 statistics, about 90 percent of the callers on its lifeline |

| |seemed to be suffering from temporary depression but had no obvious intention to commit suicide, |

| |while 7.8 percent had been considering ending their lives. |

| |While he wants to contribute something back to Taiwan, his efforts are cruelly thwarted. |

| |In addition, while the independent secondary schools have built a reputation for excellent |

| |education on the strength of the Dong Jiao Zong's Unified Examination system, many people charge |

| |that their longstanding emphasis on test scores has prompted them to overlook the true essence of |

| |education. |

| |But as far as Taiwanese TCM doctors are concerned, while Shanghai has opened up certification to |

| |them, they can still only get work in public hospitals and can't open their own practices. |

| |While the media keeps coming back to the issue of rotalties, the young Lucifer Chu has not fallen |

| |into the vanity or discomfiture that great wealth can bring. |

| |While his classmates were heading towards the Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park to strike it |

| |rich, he preferred to take another path. |

| |While he could manage all that, what was perhaps most excruciating was the fact that he was doing |

| |the same thing over and over again over this nine-month period. |

| |This means that while the export numbers dropped 60%, the monetary value rose by 30%. |

| |The problem is more that while Japanese consumers are familiar with and appreciate the flavor of |

| |Taiwan's bananas, Taiwanese pineapples are something new. |

| |But while the proportion of sweetness to acidity can be measured and tested, there's no real way to|

| |tell fiber level and flavor aside from trying the pineapple. |

| |While six years ago Meifeng was open only to academic researchers, the ecotourism camps it sponsors|

| |are now making its name known to the general public. |

| |While their yields may not be as high, orchards with grassy carpets are more appealing tourist |

| |targets than vegetable plots and messy, fly-ridden poultry pens, and provide an excellent backdrop |

| |for displays of produce. |

| |While the fixed-budget policy was created with good intentions, it has not worked smoothly in |

| |practice. |

| |Proudly, Pai notes that while business areas in Taichung City, like Tzuyou Road, had periods of |

| |prosperity, they eventually tailed off, whereas in LIhsiangkuo there’s nary a closed shop. |

| |The report revealed that while the outdoor temperature on the day of the survey was 36 degrees |

| |Centigrade, indoor temperatures at the surveyed locations averaged between 20 and 23 degrees, with |

| |one as low as 18 degrees--not only wasting electricity, but also endangering people's health. |

| |Inside the expo's silkworm museum, which is made with a wood frame wrapped in white to look like a |

| |silkworm, you can see every type of cocoon, and learn that while the worms can eat any type of |

| |leaf, it is only when they eat mulberry leaves that they can produce silk. |

| |Three years ago she became pregnant and Chang insisted that while prenatal exams could be done in |

| |China, his wife would go to Taiwan for the delivery. |

| |While typhoons battered Taiwan, Fire Ball still managed to make box-office earnings of over NT$10 |

| |million, a remarkable performance. |

| |While carrots have produced good results, potatoes offer some staggering opportunities. |

| |While originally 80% of their catch had gone to Japan, the economic decline there had resulted in a|

| |severe drop in bluefin prices and in the amount they were able to export. |

| |While the agriculture and tourism officials were still wrestling over who should take the lead in |

| |promoting the bluefin industry, Hung passed a handwritten note to Su lia-chyuan, then county |

| |commissioner and subsequently to become interior minister. |

| |While the implementation of global logistics can bring in large orders, however it creates |

| |investment risks and management problems at the same time. |

| |While its rise centers on the economy, it may not necessarily bring only business opportunities for|

| |the international community. |

| |While presently nine EU countries including Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, and Spain, |

| |have approved the constitution, Danes are likely to reject it in September referendum since there |

| |are many “Euroskeptics” in Denmark. Denmark once rejected the Treaty on European Union (also known |

| |as the Maasticht Treaty) and up to today refuses to adopt the European currency, the euro. |

| |While the Chinese understand the wisdom of the saying “haste makes waste,” they nonetheless still |

| |frequently isolate Taiwan and shout “oppose independence, promote unification.” |

| |To be more concrete, while the people do not necessarily understand the professional powers of |

| |public prosecutors and the systemic functions of the prosecution system, they nonetheless hope that|

| |the government can efficiently contain the situation when there are problems with domestic |

| |security, in particular when a major case happens, or when there is a series of illegal incidents. |

| |While Chinese leaders are not as glaringly satirical of the ideals of democratic freedom and rights|

| |as they were during the June 4, 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square, there is still the taboo of any|

| |discussion of common democratic principles around the world amongst them. |

| |While the U.S. has decided to gradually decrease the number of troops it has stationed abroad, |

| |Washington is at the same time augmenting military installations in Guam, while planning to |

| |permanently station aircraft carriers from the Seventh Fleet in the Pacific Ocean. |

| |While western scholars engage in mutual criticism, when they do have the opportunity to cooperate, |

| |they overcome their differences and work together for the sake of genuine knowledge. |

| |While this rate has been growing over the years, it is still low in comparison with 49 percent for |

| |Japan and South Korea and a 60 percent labor participation rate for the United States. |

| |While our efforts to carry out similar projects have already been acclaimed by many, we could still|

| |expand such efforts in the future. |

| |While salons were somewhat more in the sphere of the nobles and intellectuals, coffee houses were |

| |the sites of dialogue and debate among ordinary citizens. |

| |Han Shih-hsien, spokesman of the National Federation of Bank’s Employees Unions, said that while |

| |the government did not offer specifics, it responded positively to their proposals. |

| |Taiwan’s fake card rate still stood at 0.34 percent at the end of 2000, triple the average in the |

| |Asia-Pacific region, while the value of losses incurred from transactions with doctored cards also |

| |slid by 83 percent in 2004, the VISA executive noted, praising Taiwan for outshining other |

| |countries in the region by making the most outstanding progress in countering forged cards. |

| |Mayor Ma acknowledged the 228 Incident was a historical tragedy, and said that while people might |

| |forgive its perpetrators, they should not forget the incident’s history. |

| |But while the taekwondo gold medal winner at last August’s Olympic Games in Athens yesterday |

| |admitted making friends with the girl named Cher, he indicated he met the woman in an ordinary |

| |Internet chat room, not on a pornographic Web site. |

| |While it is quite normal during the winter months for snow to fall on Jade Mountain, Lalashan in |

| |Taoyuan, and Taiping Mountain in Yilan, it is seldom seen at altitudes below 3,000 meters, said |

| |Wang Yao-hua, meteorologist at the Central Weather Bureau. |

| |While some saw positive movement in Taiwan’s attempt to join the WHA, local journalists are no |

| |closer to getting credentials to cover the meeting. |

| |While the bowel disease has vexed a great many female workers in various countries including the |

| |United States and Japan, a high percent of modern-day working women in Taiwan are likely suffering |

| |IBS, said Chu Cheng-hsin, a doctor at Mackay Memorial Hospital’s gastroenterology division. |

| |While Lien’s and Soong’s trips to the mainland were undertaken with great fanfare, Taiwan’s public |

| |was seemingly indifferent. |

| |The currency exchange services of the post office will be open to locals and foreigners, while |

| |other money changing services will be open to foreigners only, said Lin. |

| |While child abusers are regarded as inhuman, we have chosen to look at the question from the |

| |position of helping high-risk families, taking a fresh view on dysfunctional families and parents, |

| |in the hope that society can pull together and end these children's hidden tears. |

| |While the nightmare has yet to materialize, millions of domestic fowl suspected of being infected |

| |have been slaughtered and destroyed. |

| |But while Asia has only produced one Genghis Khan in the past 1,000 years, the casualty rate in |

| |global business is very high. |

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