Yaung's failure is no 'shock' for Taiwan (Mar 11)
The sudden resignation of Health Minister Yaung Chih-liang due to backtracking in President Ma Ying-jeou's right-wing Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) on national health insurance system


Comments: President SBY’s indecisiveness (Mar 11)
President SBY’s indecisiveness
March 4, p. 2
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Comments: Farmers seek to stub out govt regulation (Mar 11)
Farmers seek to stub out govt regulation
March 2, p. 5
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Are today's young the 'chump' generation? (Mar 11)
THE 'generation gap' endures as a staple of American political and social analysis.


Limits to taxing the super-rich (Mar 11)
TAXES for some people were actually raised in the recent Budget but judging by the apparent indifference of those affected, one could assume that these folks do not actually mind paying more.


Medicines for all (Mar 10)
Unrestricted entry of foreign equity into the Indian pharmaceuticals sector is being questioned on three grounds, one serious and two non-serious. The least serious of the three comes from the National Security Council, which has proposed that the sector be put on the sensitive list, requiring prior scrutiny by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board. This is difficult to understand as there is no intellectual property to guard against foreign takeover, the Indian industry being entirely generic. The second non-serious reason, given by the department of pharmaceuticals, is that Indian firms are not on a level playing field they do not have deep pockets to do the kind of R&D necessary for survival in a free-for-all which global firms do.