SLOGAN TROUBLES: : The premier said Ma's campaign slogan should have made it clear that fixing the nation's sluggish economy could not be accomplished overnight
By Mo Yan-chih
Premier Liu Chao-shiuan (劉兆玄) said yesterday that fulfilling President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) campaign promise to fix the economy would take time, urging the public to have patience.

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By Shih Hsiu-chuan
A Cabinet-level task force created to deal with economic problems held its first meeting late last night to draw up concrete measures to revitalize the local stock market after Friday’s nosedive to a five-month low.

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LUNCH DATE: Zhao Danyang, manager of a Shenzhen investment fund, offered the record amount, which will go to services for the poor and homeless in San Francisco
A lunch date with billionaire investor Warren Buffett was sold to a Chinese hedge-fund manager yesterday for more than US$2.1 million during an online auction, more than tripling last year's record of US$650,100.

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US Republican presidential candidate John McCain has an unusual endorsement — from the Vietnamese jailer who says he held him captive for about five years as a POW and now considers him a friend.

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The Chinese government said Tropical Storm Fengshen has killed at least nine people in southern China.

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Many Zimbabweans deliberately defaced their ballots in a discredited presidential runoff with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as the sole candidate and voted only out of fear, the Pan-African Parliament observer mission said yesterday.

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