PARTY RESOLUTION: Yu Shyi-kun said half of the DPP's legislators and 90 percent of its chapters' directors support his proposal to amend the party's `normal country' draft
By Flora Wang
Specifying "Taiwan" as the name of the country in the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) final "normal country" resolution would counteract China's "Anti-Secession" Law, DPP Chairman Yu Shyi-kun said yesterday.

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By Flora Wang and Shih Hsiu-chuan
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus whip Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘) said yesterday that President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) may reconsider proposing a new list of Control Yuan nominees.

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AD CAMPAIGN: : The former senior presidential adviser said the US was wrong to view the DPP's referendum on a UN bid as an effort to change the country's name
By Ko Shu-ling
Frustrated by communication problems with the US government over Taiwan's UN membership bid, former senior presidential adviser Koo Kwang-ming (辜寬敏) decided to appeal directly to the American public by placing ads in the New York Times and the Washington Post today.

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By Shih Hsiu-chuan
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Ko Chun-hsiung (柯俊雄) announced yesterday that he would join the recently organized Taiwan Farmers Party (TFP).

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THE PEOPLE'S WILL: The Mainland Affairs Council rebutted Beijing's claim that the president had led a march in Kaohsiung that advocated `secessionism'
By Shih Hsiu-chuan
The amount of international coverage of the nation's bid to apply to the UN using the name "Taiwan" was three times higher than when the nation's official name, the Republic of China (ROC), was used in previous years, a government spokesman said yesterday.

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SUSPECT: The police said that 48-year-old Chou Mei-yun had been tied up with nylon rope, had multiple stab wounds in her chest and thigh and marks on her neck
By Flora Wang and Rich Chang
The Kaohsiung Police Bureau said yesterday that a female Japanese teacher working in Taiwan has been questioned after a woman's body was found in a garbage bag in Kaohsiung City early on Sunday morning.

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BACKWARD: The head of Taiwan Media Watch said that while the government has the right to tout its policies, the KMT should not sell themselves in this way
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) came under fire yesterday from media monitors for buying radio programs to promote the KMT in the forthcoming legislative and presidential elections.

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By Rich Chang
Taipei prosecutors indicted 36 alleged members of the notorious Four Seas gang (四海幫) yesterday as part of one of the most aggressive crackdowns on domestic gangs in recent years.

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By Angelica Oung
This year's strengthened food safety measures could mean a mid-autumn season without hairy crabs from China. Food Safety Bureau officials said that there has not yet been any applications from crab importers seeking to bring crabs into this country even though the brief hairy crab season has already started.

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SEROTONIN: The team also found that the fruit's skin can protect human eyes from light because it can help in the process of retina cell regeneration
Researchers have discovered that banana peel extract can ease depression and protect the retina, a Chinese-language newspaper said yesterday.

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`SCANDAL': A former administrator of the UN University in Tokyo has thrown his weight behind Taiwan's UN bid, arguing that the country's exclusion is unconscionable
Taiwan's exclusion from the UN is the biggest and longest-running scandal involving the organization, a renowned Indian academic said yesterday.

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China yesterday protested against proposed US$2.2 billion US weapons sales to Taiwan, urging Washington to cancel the deal and end its ties with the Taiwanese military.

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Police yesterday urged cash-strapped people to apply for bank loans through legal channels instead of swiping their credit cards for nonexistent purchases to get quick cash from illegal underground banks.

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