ELECTION PLAN: Wu Den-yi called on KMT public officials to cooperate with party headquarters to win more votes in the north and contain losses in the south
By Mo Yan-chih
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) local government chiefs yesterday pledged to spare no efforts to assist party candidates in winning in the year-end legislative elections and presidential race next year.

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By Mo Yan-chih
As the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) plan to prioritize "Taiwan" in the proposed charter change threatens to split party members, KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) tried to play down the issue yesterday, insisting that the party was still seeking consensus on the revision.

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PARTY BET: The DPP is planning to officially announce the candidacy of Frank Hsieh on Wednesday, as well as planning a fundraiser to support its plans for a referendum
By Loa Iok-sin
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will formally announce the nomination of premier Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) as its official candidate in next year's presidential elections, a DPP official said yesterday.

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By Fan Cheng-hsiang
The deadline for a regulation requiring political parties and organizations to post their financial earnings is approaching, but none of the country's 172 parties and organizations, including the main political parties, have moved to publicize their finances.

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By Loa Iok-sin
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday said it holds Beijing responsible for the disappearance of a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) sympathizer in China and called on the KMT and the international community to condemn Chinese oppression.

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President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) expressed his support yesterday for an initiative to set up a global body to integrate international efforts to deal with environmental issues.

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MORE FOCUS: Under the new scheme, the number of foreign workers allowed into the country will be based on the unemployment rate and work opportunities
The existing quota system in the government's policy on foreign labor will be replaced by dynamic management, Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) Chairman Lu Tien-lin (盧天麟) said yesterday.

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ILLEGAL: Starting next year, the gentle giant of the tropical seas will be protected by a ban on fishing, and by the prohibition of sales, imports, and exports
Taiwan will ban fishing of whale sharks, the largest living fish species, starting next year, the Fisheries Administration under the Council of Agriculture (COA) announced on Friday.

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By Chou Fu-mei
The Taipei Railway Station's less than accessible restrooms for handicapped individuals are drawing complains from their users.

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GETTING READY: As the high speed train service gets ready to offer more departures, local and foreign drivers are receiving the appropriate training to deal with any situation
By Shelley Shan
The first group of locally trained Taiwanese high speed train drivers will soon join the high speed rail service, the Bureau of the High Speed Rail said on Friday.

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China's ongoing suppression of Taiwan's bid for participation in international activities over the past few years is driven by China's attempt to eradicate the Republic of China and annex Taiwan, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Vice Chairman Tung Chen-yuan (童振源) said yesterday.

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By Rich Chang
Kaohsiung County police launched an investigation yesterday to determine if any of its officers were involved in an imprisonment case in which three people were held in custody and tortured by loan shark gangsters for months.

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Hung Wan-ting (洪琬婷), a second lieutenant with Taiwan's Chinese Military Academy, will become the first Taiwanese -- and Asian -- woman to graduate from the US Military Academy at West Point on Saturday after four years of training, said a Central News Agency (CNA) report yesterday.

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By Kuo Yen-hui
Within one week, nine year-old Lin Yi-ting (林怡廷), a second-year student at Dali Elementary School in Toucheng Township (頭城鎮), Ilan County, memorized 100 English words for a TV competition in the hope that she would be able to give her 78 year-old grandmother a wheelchair.

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