SUPPORT: Chen Chu, with the backing of the DPP and President Chen, said she would appeal a court ruling which annulled her win in the Kaohsiung election
By Flora Wang
The Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Huang Chun-ying (黃俊英) said yesterday he was ready to run for mayor on behalf of the KMT should the Taiwan High Court order a Kaohsiung mayoral by-election.

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MYTHICAL: The Cairo Declaration is a communique that was relevant at a specific moment in time, but it does not contain anything that makes it legal 65 years later
By Max Hirsch
A key document used by Beijing to justify its claims that Taiwan is a part of China never had any legally binding power, the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA) said, citing a recent letter from a senior official at the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

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By Flora Wang
Legislators across party lines yesterday called for an extended legislative session, but each camp had a different agenda on the table.

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A group of young people staged a skit at the National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall -- formerly known as the Chiang Kai-shek (CKS) Memorial Hall -- yesterday to highlight the many reasons why they had been opposed to the memorial hall's old name.

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By Mo Yan-chih
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) met Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute in Taiwan Raymond Burghardt yesterday, promising to bring peace across the Taiwan Strait if elected.

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STRANDED: The accident also disrupted railway transportation on the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival holidays and approximately 40,000 passengers were affected
By Shelley Shan
The Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) confirmed yesterday that the train crash near Dali (大里) Train Station, Ilan County, on Friday morning was the result of driver error.

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MUTUAL ACTIONS: Lee Teng-hui said that despite a lack of formal ties, relations with Japan continued to expand because of NGO efforts and non-political exchanges
By Jimmy Chuang
Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) and former premier Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) yesterday affirmed Taiwanese and Japanese non-governmental organizations' (NGO) efforts in hosting joint events as essential to enhancing mutual cooperation and maintaining regional peace.

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As Washington struggles to end nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran, startling details have emerged from declassified US government documents regarding its success in halting Taiwan's budding nuclear project in the 1970s.

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BEWARE BITES: Dengue fever infection is a serious problem and the public should be on their guard against mosquito bites when traveling in Southeast Asia, an official said
Four out of a group of five people who traveled to Vietnam earlier this month to broker a marriage between a Taiwanese man and a Vietnamese woman were confirmed to have been infected with dengue fever, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday.

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Ten Taiwanese companies will participate in the New York Licensing 2007 International exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, with an eye on bringing in record profits through the licensing of cultural products and quality peripherals.

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Allowing Taiwanese tourists to use the "small three links" to travel to China will greatly help Kinmen achieve its aim of transforming itself from a military bastion into a prime tourist destination, Kinmen County Commissioner Lee Chu-feng (李炷烽) said on Friday.

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Taiwanese and Chinese university students enjoy purchasing brand-name luxury goods, and a majority also hoped to expand their horizon by means of travel, a recent survey revealed.

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