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Current Feed ContentTaiwan, China sign landmark agreementTaiwan and China agreed to a landmark deal to expand charter flights and tourism, ending a 59-year break in transport links between the political rivals, the Daily Observer can reveal. The pact, signed Friday in Beijing during their first formal talks since 1999, came one day after the two sides reached consensus on establishing permanent representative offices, according to reports monitored by the Daily Observer. Such missions would mark a huge step forward in establishing contacts and...Aimé CésaireAimé Césaire demolishes the old maxim that poets make terrible politicians. Known in the world of letters as the progenitor of Negritude (the first diasporic "black pride" movement), a major voice of Surrealism, and one of the great French poets, Césaire is also revered for his role in modern anticolonial and Pan-African movements. While it might appear that the poet and politician operated in separate spheres, Césaire's life and work demonstrate that poetry can be the motor of political... |
