WHAT YOU EAT: The mechanism will help ensure producer responsibility, guarantee food quality and offer consumers useful information about the food that they eat
By Shih Hsiu-chuan
The Executive Yuan said yesterday it would implement a food traceability system starting next year, enabling consumers to trace the place of origin of agricultural products as well as the pesticides used in their production.

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By Loa Iok-sin
Dropping-out from school and deteriorating health are just two of the consequences of Internet game addiction, the Child Welfare League Foundation warned yesterday, while urging the government and parents to take preventive measures.

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'TERRIFIED': Control tower operators informed fighter aircraft pilots that a civilian aircraft was taking off, but failed to inform the Daily Air pilot of the descending F-5s
By Shelley Shan
The Civil Aeronautics Administra-tion (CAA) admitted yesterday that air-traffic control center employees at Taitung Airport had mishandled an incident last month, in which they failed to inform Daily Air (德安航空) pilots of approaching military aircraft.

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By Angelica Oung
The legislature's Sanitation, Environment and Social Welfare Committee yesterday passed an amendment that extends the right of maternity and paternity leave to employees of small businesses.

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By Rich Chang
Taipei prosecutors yesterday released Alexander Group (亞力山大集團) chairwoman Candy Tang (唐雅君) and her younger sister, Tang Hsin-ru (唐心如), on NT$2 million (US$61,000) bail each after they were detained on suspicion that the health club defrauded its customers.

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HEATED DEBATE: Commission members recommended by the pan-blue camp said that a rule that would delay elections in the case of disasters could be manipulated
By Loa Iok-sin and Mo Yan-chih
Passage of a regulation to allow for changes in election dates or poll station locations in the case of natural disasters or other "unavoidable causes" was postponed yesterday as Central Election Commission (CEC) members debated the wording.

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By Shih Hsiu-chuan and Ko Shu-ling
President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) yesterday criticized French President Nicolas Sarkozy for bowing to Chinese pressure and opposing the nation's referendum on joining the UN under the name "Taiwan."

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NOT INTERESTED: Only 32 percent of US citizens said they think the US military should protect Taiwan if China starts an armed conflict, while 49 percent of congressional staffers said the same
Most US respondents in a poll said they would oppose US intervention in the event of a military conflict in the Taiwan Strait triggered by a formal declaration of independence by Taiwan.

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POLL: Lieutenant General Chen Kuo-hsiang said that the questionnaire was given to 3,010 soldiers who took part in an exercise after an `intensive mental training course'
By Jimmy Chuang
More than 50 percent of military personnel believe there is going to be war between Taiwan and China -- numbers the Ministry of National Defense's General Political Warfare Bureau said yesterday were a good sign.

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By Mo Yan-chih
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday accused Council of Agriculture (COA) Chairman Su Jia-chyuan (蘇嘉全) of abusing power to give his wife promotions, and threatened to boycott legislation on the council's agricultural biotechnology park, which would benefit his wife if passed.

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By Shelley Shan
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) released a survey yesterday that showed that close to 60 percent of the population have neither taken the high speed rail nor felt the need to take it.

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