CRITICISM: Vice President Annette Lu slammed Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez for ending his country's 63-year-old ties with Taiwan for money from China
Basing Taiwan's diplomatic policy on the so-called "1992 consensus" would only lead Taiwan to "a dead end," President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) said yesterday.

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By Flora Wang
Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's (謝長廷) office yesterday urged Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to publicize details of electoral donations his campaign has received.

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By Loa Iok-sin
The Council for Hakka Affairs has decided to remove a copy of Sun Yat-sen's (孫逸仙) last words from its office wall, calling it an outdated practice.

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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) will depart on a trip to India and Singapore tomorrow.

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DOCTOR'S ORDERS: Physicians advised the city leader to lose weight and 'get sufficient rest.' She will need up to three months of rehabilitation therapy to fully recover
By Flora Wang
Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) was discharged from a Kaohsiung hospital yesterday, ending her 45-day hospitalization.

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WHO ATE MY GOAT? : Police are searching for a strange creature that killed several goats in Linkou Township and made some residents reluctant to venture outside
By Rich Chang
A group launched a search yesterday in a mountainous area in Linkou Township (林口), Taipei County, for an unidentified creature that has been killing domestic goats in the area.

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HAPPY VISITORS: The Tourism Bureau implemented a new travel cost, service quality and shopping guarantee system last November after a tour bus crash killed six
An overwhelming majority of Chinese tourists have been satisfied with their visits to Taiwan, the results of an opinion poll released yesterday showed.

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By Mo Yan-chih
Ringing a bell and daubing red paint on the eyes of dragon boats, Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) yesterday presided over the eye-painting ceremony at Keelung River to raise the curtain on the Dragon Boat Festival that starts next Sunday.

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UNDERGROUND: Before the raid on a Sinjhuang factory, the bootlegger had been sending out about a thousand flyers daily advertising pirated movies and pornography
By Max Hirsch
In the biggest bust of a pirated media production racket this year, Taipei County police seized 42 DVD burners and nearly 60,000 bootleg DVDs and arrested seven suspects on Thursday after raiding a Sinjhuang, Taipei County, residence, the Movie Picture Association (MPA) said yesterday.

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Programs being offered by hospitals in Tainan City and Tainan County to help heroin addicts kick their habit with methadone substitution have achieved good results, according to a doctor at National Cheng Kung University Hospital.

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A healthy girl whose mother told her to feign sickness received unnecessary medical treatments, including an appendectomy, until a suspecting doctor uncovered the plot.

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By Jimmy Chuang
A report detailing the reasons behind the delays in the construction of the country's new military complex and a recent collapse will be made public next month, a military official said yesterday.

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College graduates are finding it more difficult to land jobs than they had imagined and are ending up pursuing further education or preparing for civil service exams rather than entering the job market, a job information magazine reported yesterday.

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