引述 :『FRANKFURT, Germany - A European court on Tuesday ruled that a German law shielding car maker Volkswagen AG from hostile takeovers is illegal, clearing the way for Porsche AG to increase its influence — and possibly take control — at Europe's biggest car maker. ADVERTISEMENT The decision by the European Court of Justice also is expected to have wider ramifications across Europe, where many governments have tried to protect companies they see as vital to their economies from takeovers, particularly foreign ones. German politicians and labor unions had argued that the law was needed to protect local jobs but the court, the EU's highest, said it was illegal. It ruled that the law limited "the free movement of capital."』

引述 :『Wow. Among the hundreds of articles on Taiwan I have discussed on this blog over the last couple of years, this piece of dreck from Robert Ross, For China, How To Manage Taiwan?, represents the absolute nadir of writing on the island and its future in a major media publication. Probably the only accurate statement in the piece is found in the opening two paragraphs:』

引述 :『前美國副總統、競選總統以些微差距敗給小布希的高爾(Al Gore)，因為一部探討氣候變遷的紀錄片「不願面對的真相」(An Inconvenient Truth)贏得奧斯卡獎，聲名大噪。其實，另一個大家不知道的真相是：高爾也會打籃球啊！』

引述 :『The life of late Bamboo Union gang leader Chen Chi-li (陳啟禮) provides the perfect example of the complicated relationship that existed between criminal organizations and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime. Chen and two fellow gang members gunned down Chinese-American writer Henry Liu (劉宜良) -- better known by his pen-name Jiang Nan (江南) -- at his house in 1984, reportedly at the order of a Military Intelligence Bureau chief. Chen died of pancreatic cancer in Hong Kong on Oct. 4.』

引述 :『BEIJING (AFP) - China on Monday unveiled a new leadership team that gave President Hu Jintao a stronger hand in governing the country and put forward potential successors to take over power from him in 2012. ADVERTISEMENT Hu, 64, was given a second term as head of the ruling Communist Party and the nation's armed forces, following more than a week of closed-door meetings in Beijing during which he worked to consolidate his grip on power.』

引述 :『在亞洲國家的公司贊助指標，台灣是唯一受調學生指完全沒有公司贊助就讀的國家，學生念ＭＢＡ主要依賴獎學金、家庭資助或貸款。』