Liberty Times: President Ma Ying-jeou's move toward eventual unification of Taiwan and China has moved a step forward after Minister of Education Wu Ching-chi unveiled a plan to accredit Chinese diplomas.

The plan, if adopted, will allow some 100,000 Taiwanese young people trained at Chinese universities to work in Taiwan and even to qualify to serve as civil servants and teachers.

Those people, who have already been brainwashed by China, are sure to instil local people with their pro-unification beliefs.

The plan will also give Chinese students access to Taiwanese colleges and allow them to work as Chinese spies by monitoring local teachers' lectures.

Those Chinese students trained at Taiwanese colleges -- financed with local tax payers' money -- might help the Beijing regime invade and annex Taiwan in the future.

As the policy will encourage more local young people to attend schools in China, those people will inevitably support Ma's pro-unification policy after they return.

Taiwanese should rise in opposition to Ma's policy by voting against him and his party in the year-end elections.

Apple Daily: Attraction of Sun Chong-yu Ever since Legislator Wu Yu-sheng was caught visiting a love hotel with an unmarried woman, the woman, Sun Chong-yu, has been catapulted into the limelight.

Sun has disappeared from public sight, while Wu has had to carry out his lawmaker's job and face the music. There have been many reports about Sun, a beautiful middle-aged woman who rubs shoulders with fat cats and bigwigs.

As more and more educated and economically independent women are preferring to remain single, we can predict there will be more and more women like Sun.

China Times: Revisit the case of the March 19, 2004 shooting The Control Yuan has determined that the investigation into the shooting of ex-President Chen Shui-bian and ex-Vice President Annette Lu on March 19, 2004 was flawed. There is no direct evidence to support its conclusion that Chen Yi-hsiung, who was found drowned in a nearby harbor 10 days after the incident, was the sole individual responsible for the shooting.

We support the Control Yuan's determination to prod the Supreme Prosecutors Office to reopen the probe into the case to find the truth.

The case was clouded by mystery, and even Lu has challenged the investigation's findings and called for the case to be revisited.

If Chen Yi-hsiung is the shooter, the prosecution should produce convincing evidence to prove that.

United Daily News: Accrediting Chinese diplomas to strengthen Taiwan students' competitiveness The government's plan to accredit Chinese diplomas has sparked mixed reaction, with National Taiwan University looking forward to teaching the potential future leaders of China, while others worrying about the move's possible impact.

The opposition, led by the Democratic Progressive Party, vows to oppose the measure, with some of its supporters calling for a ban on Chinese-educated people serving in government.

We have to point out that they are shortsighted, as three of Taiwan's modern presidents have been educated abroad. The late Chiang Chiang-kuo was educated in Russia, Lee Teng-hui was educated by Japan, and incumbent president Ma Ying-jeou was educated in the United States.

If China were to impose a similar ban on its people educated in Taiwan, how could National Taiwan University educate China's potential leaders? Boundaries will not protect our students from competition from their Chinese counterparts because competition will occur in the international arena anyway. Taiwanese students can, in fact, improve their competitiveness by studying together with Chinese students either in Taiwan or on the mainland.

(By Maubo Chang)