`IMPROPER': The ministry proposes changing terminology concerning relations with China, such as replacing `cross-strait relations' with `nation-to-nation relations'
By Mo Yan-chihand Max Hirsch
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday protested the Ministry of Education's plan to revise some 5,000 terms in school textbooks relating to the nation's ties with China.

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FRUSTRATED: After the legislature failed to vote on a KMT-introduced bill, some lawmakers panned the legislative speaker for `insufficient' efforts
By Mo Yan-chih
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday defended Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) after some KMT legislators accused Wang of stalling the draft amendment to the Organic Law of the Central Election Commission (中央選舉委員會組織法).

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Taiwan needs to know why Washington opposes Taipei's bid for UN membership under the name "Taiwan," Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) said upon arrival in New York on Friday.

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Chief of the General Staff Huo Shou-yeh (霍守業) is in the US for biannual military exchanges between Taipei and Washington, diplomatic sources in the US said on Friday.

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By Loa Iok-sin
Although Taiwan is a democracy, changes in mentality and education are necessary to normalize the nation, panelists at a forum on national issues concluded yesterday.

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By Jimmy Chuang
Nearly 10,000 inmates walked free on Monday as the commutation statute took effect. The commutation, intended to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the lifting of martial law, stirred debate over its possible impact on society.

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BOUNTIFUL HARVEST: The generosity of Taiwan's businesses and individuals has allowed around 80 percent of local charities to break even so far this year
By Max Hirsch
The number of charities and the amount of donations they receive are soaring amid a wave of public generosity since the end of the Martial Law era, social welfare experts said yesterday.

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LONG WAIT: Service on the Maokong system was shut down at 4:50pm. Passengers waited until 5:50pm to be evacuated with the last few reaching safety at 6:55pm
By Mo Yan-chih
Some 300 visitors were trapped in the cabins of Taipei's Maokong cable car system yesterday afternoon for about an hour due to an equipment failure on a sizzling summer day as the temperature soared to a high of 38.6oC.

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By Shelley Shan
Pinglin (坪林), a small town in Taipei County known for its tea production, used to be filled with tourists on weekends as well as on holidays, despite the fact that the county government limited passenger car access to the area.

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PEAK YEARS: The 1970s and 1980s saw the number of payphones climb to 150,000 as revenue hit NT$9 billion. Today, less than 100,000 are in service
By Liu Li-jen
In view of the decreasing use of public pay telephones as more and more people opt for cellphones, Chunghwa Telecom will next month introduce a newly designed, more convenient public telephone.

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NEW APPROACH: To stop the sale of human beings, academics said that criminal law is important but not enough. Rescuing victims must also be part of the plan
The government will tackle human trafficking with comprehensive legislation aimed at identifying victims and providing better protection, an official said on Friday in a video conference with US officials.

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Lieutenant General Cheng Shih-yu (程士瑜), a former head of the Sixth Army, was taken into custody on Friday on charges of corruption, the Prosecutors Office of the Military High Court (POMHC) said in a press release late that day.

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By Angelica Oung
While some pet owners say that they love their pets like children and treat them accordingly, animal rights activists criticize too much pet-pampering as wasteful and even detrimental to relationships between pets and humans.

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Tainan's Lee Chin-mu (李清木) is proud that his eldest son is now former US vice president Al Gore's son-in-law.

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