TO-DO LIST: Among other things, the document says Taiwan must specify its national title and take part in international organizations such as the UN using the name 'Taiwan'
By Flora Wang
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) unveiled its draft "normal country resolution" yesterday, in which it highlights the need for the nation to change its name to "Taiwan" to differentiate it from China.

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WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID: KMT lawmakers say that the prosecutors' decision to add to the charges against Ma constitutes interference in the presidential election
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers said yesterday that additional charges laid by Taipei prosecutors against former Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) constituted "judicial persecution."

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By Jimmy Chuang
Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) and Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) joined forces yesterday to petition Premier Chang Chun-hsiung (張俊雄) in the hope of stopping the central government from allowing Taipei County to take a share of their annual budget.

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By Ko Shu-ling
The Presidential Office yesterday said it was not trying to be provocative by sending two letters requesting that the UN reconsider Taiwan's UN membership bid.

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By Charles Snyder
The administration of US President George W. Bush on Tuesday voiced its opposition to a resolution approved by the US House of Representatives that called on the administration to allow President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and other top-level Taiwan officials to visit Washington freely for discussions on matters of joint concern.

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RISING COSTS: While a top Council of Agriculture official said the government would increase its fuel subsidy, it was unlikely to offer as much as legislators have demanded
By Shih Hsiu-chuan
The government will increase the diesel oil subsidy for fishing vessels this month to reduce the impact of rising oil prices on fishermen, Council of Agriculture Deputy Chairman Lee Jen-chyuan (李健全) said yesterday.

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SUPERHIGHWAY IN THE HILLS: A small village in Alishan, where one year ago many residents didn't have regular phones, recently received a high-tech Internet upgrade
By Shelley Shan
For Yang Shan-feng (楊尚峰) of Lichia (里佳) Village in Alishan, being able to use the broadband service in the village was something beyond his imagination.

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By Mo Yan-chih
The Taipei City Government was urged to reduce noise levels from the 24-hour parking lots under the Jianguo Overpass as residents complained yesterday that they were being driven to distraction by the noise.

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Virologists at National Yang-Ming University (NYMU) in Taipei have discovered the cause for the high morbidity rate of SARS, indicating that mutations in a specific protein in the SARS virus can greatly accelerate the viral replication process, university sources reported yesterday.

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TUESDAY'S RULING: The former mayor said he had been vindicated by the court's decision that the Government Procurement Law did not apply to the KRTC bids case
By Flora Wang and Shih Hsiu-chuan
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) said yesterday that his name had been cleared by the Kaohsiung District Court's ruling on the the Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corp (KRTC) case -- and he would sue anyone who made further allegations about the case against him.

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By Angelica Oung
Sultry summer temperatures have caused a larger number of people to come down with heat-related illnesses, emergency medicine specialists said yesterday.

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By Yang Kuo-wen and Lin Shu-hui
The Taipei High Administrative Court yesterday ruled against the Taipei City Government in 25 cases related to its health and labor insurance subsidies for people working in the city, leaving the city government owing at least NT$14.1 billion (US$427 million) to the Bureau of National Health Insurance.

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By Loa Iok-sin
To enhance cooperation among Austronesian countries, the Austronesian Forum was inaugurated yesterday in Taipei by representatives from eight countries in the Pacific region.

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