A CALL TO ARMS: The KMT says that it will make amendments to the Organic Law a priority. Some DPP legislators have threatened to use violence to block the changes
By Mo Yan-chih and Flora Wang
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) yesterday vowed to push for an amendment to the Organic Law of the Central Election Commission (中央選舉委員會組織) to counter the central government's one-step voting process.

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NO PORT: The Pentagon is concerned about China's unaccounted-for decision to refuse the 'Kitty Hawk' fleet and two threatened ships entry to Hong Kong
By Charles Snyder
The commander of US forces in the Pacific, Admiral Timothy Keating, hit out at China on Tuesday for refusing to allow the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier group to visit Hong Kong for a Thanksgiving port call last week, a move that some have linked to US arms sales to Taiwan. Keating called the decision "perplexing" and "troublesome."

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Taipei said yesterday that the WTO had allayed its fears concerning the impartiality of a Chinese judge appointed to its top court, which had threatened to turn into major international row.

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By Ko Shu-ling
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday submitted to the Central Election Commission (CEC) 2.7 million signatures collected for a referendum seeking to join the UN using the name "Taiwan."

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BIG BUCKS: The Cabinet proposed an amendment that would mean an increase of NT$7.2 billion in annual spending shared by the central and local governments
By Shih Hsiu-chuan
The Cabinet yesterday approved a proposal that would see approximately 45,000 low-income households eligible for subsidies of between NT$216,000 and NT$260,000, Minister of the Interior Lee Yi-yang (李逸洋) said yesterday.

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By Shih Hsiu-chuan
A Straits Exchange Foundation poll found that Taiwanese respondents preferred independence to unification with China by 52 percent to 24 percent when the option of maintaining the "status quo" was excluded.

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MOVING ON: Tropical Storm Mitag has moved away from Taiwan, but the chance of rain is still high in the northeast, the weather bureau said
By Shelley Shan
The nation can expect cold weather this morning as a cold air mass from the north continues to hover over Taiwan, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.

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A Panama-registered cargo ship sank to the northwest of Keelung Islet (基隆嶼) after hitting rough weather yesterday as Tropical Storm Mitag hit the area, leaving almost 30 people missing, a Coast Guard official said yesterday.

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`PERVERSE POSITION': Concerned parents and NGOs say the three-story ad is a bad influence for the neighborhood kids and must be removed
By Jenny W. Hsu
Civic groups and parents took to the streets in Taipei County yesterday, demanding a love motel take down a racy billboard and calling on the venue's alleged main investor, a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmaker, to relocate the motel immediately.

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CAREFREE: While similar publications have been published before, chief editor Anita Lai said none of them could likely match the time spent on this project
By Shelley Shan
The Sports Affairs Council (SAC) announced yesterday that it published a guidebook documenting the 50 most noteworthy bicycle routes around the nation.

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Large-scale demonstrations and parades aimed at raising public awareness of the pollution crisis threatening the survival of the next generation will be held on Dec. 8 in eight cities and counties around the country, organizers said yesterday.

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By Loa Iok-sin
Dozens of Aborigines from the three sub-groupings of the Sediq tribe yesterday submitted a petition to the Council of Indigenous Peoples asking that the council recognize the tribe.

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