It seems odd that a strong performance for a pro-Beijing party at the expense of Hong Kong democrats could be a positive sign. Yet this is the case.

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By Tai Hsing Sheng 戴興武
The thermal power station in Taichung produces the single largest amount of carbon dioxide of any power plant in the world, an article in the British scientific journal Nature reported recently.

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By Chen Ye-sin 陳業鑫
RULING and OPPOSITION lawmakers have reached a consensus in their discussion of amending the civil code's rules on inheritance and debt inheritance. for many years i have done my utmost to push for amendments to these rules, and it looks as though finally there are some results. but there are positive and negative aspects to the content of the draft amendment.

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By Yen Hong Ling 葉紘麟
National Taiwan University (NTU) has received a massive amount in donations this year. After Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) chairman Terry Gou (郭台銘) donated NT$15 billion to NTU for biomedical development and cancer treatment in September, Quanta Computer Inc (廣達電腦) vice chairman C.C. Leung (梁次震) also donated NT$205 million to the school's physics department this month to establish a new research center.

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UK scientists have found that workers and residents near radioactive arms plant suffer from tumors and other illnesses 23 years after the factory closed, despite claims it was not health hazard. The US government doesn't see a link
By David Rose
It has been 50 years since Tony Ciarfello and his friends used the yard of a depleted uranium (DU) weapons factory as their playground in Colonie, a suburb of Albany in upstate New York.

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By Joseph Stiglitz
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the East Asia crisis, which began in Thailand on July 2, 1997, spread to Indonesia in October and to South Korea in December. Eventually, it became a global financial crisis, embroiling Russia and Latin American countries, such as Brazil, and unleashing forces that played out over the ensuing years: Argentina in 2001 may be counted among its victims.

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