DIALOGUE: In a phone conversation with George Bush, Hu Jintao thanked the US for `opposing' Taiwan's independence as well as its bids to join international organizations
By Charles Snyder
US President George W. Bush urged Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) in a telephone conversation on Wednesday to use Taiwan's presidential election to take positive actions to peacefully resolve cross-strait tensions, the White House said.

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North Korea expelled early yesterday most South Korean officials from a joint industrial estate just north of the border in its first response to Seoul's new tougher line with its communist neighbor.

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By Jimmy Chuang And Mo Yan-Chin
The Taipei High Administrative Court yesterday rejected the Taipei City Zoo's application to import two giant pandas from China.

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PROTEST: A group of monks shouting that there was no religious freedom disrupted a carefully orchestrated visit for foreign reporters to Tibet's capital yesterday
Monks from one of Tibetan Buddhism's most sacred temples defied China's crackdown to protest in front of visiting foreign reporters in Lhasa yesterday, voicing their support for the Dalai Lama.

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Taliban attacks on telecom towers have prompted cellphone companies to shut down service across southern Afghanistan at night, angering a quarter million customers who have no other telephones.

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