MASS MEETING: President Chen Shiu-bian last night addressed a crowd of 30,000 supporters at a massive campaign rally to boost support for his referendum
By Chang Yun-ping
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) last night held the first large-scale campaign rally in an envisaged series of national referendum promotion campaigns in Taoyuan County to boost the momentum and public support for an election-day referendum proposed by President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁).

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TIMING CRUCIAL: The world health body urged the Chinese government to step up measures to contain the disease and test for human infections
By Cody Yiu
The World Health Organization appealed yesterday for more urgent action by China against bird flu, warning that its "window of opportunity" to contain the disease might be slipping away as the government expanded its ban on poultry exports to three new areas with suspect cases.

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DEFIANT: Andrew Gilligan maintained in his resignation statement on Friday that his story about the British government `sexing up' its Iraq dossier was `mostly right'
Journalist Andrew Gilligan, whose story that the British government had "sexed up" the risk from Iraqi weapons was criticized in an inquiry as unfounded, has resigned from the BBC, arguing the report was largely right.

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US President George W. Bush finally conceded on Friday that there may be a problem over Iraq's missing weapons of mass destruction when he said he wanted to know why there were discrepancies between pre-war intelligence and the negligible material investigators had found on the ground.

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