MARITIME CAPABILITY: The Chinese president told a party meeting on Wednesday that the navy must adapt to the military's `historical mission in this new century'
Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) urged the building of a powerful navy that is prepared "at any time" for military struggle, state media reported yesterday.

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By Mo Yan-chih
Dissatisfied with the coverage by a Chinese-language newspaper, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Yu Shyi-kun announced yesterday that the party would boycott the paper and refuse it access to party officials.

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CABLE CHAOS: A Chunghwa Telecom Co secretary says at least six undersea cables are broken and a seventh is damaged, and it will take at least two weeks to repair them
By Lisa Wang
Asia was slowly recovering yesterday from one of the biggest telecommunication outages to hit the region in years as crews scrambled to rig up new phone and Internet networks to replace those snapped by Tuesday night's earthquake off southern Taiwan.

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HARDLINE BATTLE: A top leader in Somalia's Islamic movement said he had ordered forces out of the capital to avoid further bloodshed
Somalia's Islamic movement abandoned the nation's capital Mogadishu and clan militiamen poured into the streets yesterday, looting the bases of the departing fighters.

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By Jackie Lin
Three purchasers of lottery tickets will get a memorable New Year gift as they walk away with the grand prize of the Big Lotto, which was NT$1.88 billion (US$57.5 million), the highest in the history of lottery operator Taipei Fubon Bank.

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