CARETAKER CHANG: Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng of the KMT said rejecting the resignations and having a 'caretaker Cabinet' was a reasonable course of action
By Loa Iok-sin, Mo Yan-chih and Flora Wang
Premier Chang Chun-hsiung (張俊雄) announced yesterday that he would continue to serve as premier "for political stability" and that most of his Cabinet members would also stay on, after President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) rejected his resignation.

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By Jenny W. Hsu
The friendship between St. Kitts and Nevis and Taiwan remains strong and unwavering, the Caribbean nation's foreign minister Timothy Harris said yesterday in an interview with the Taipei Times.

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By Rich Chang
Taichung law enforcement authorities seized 20kg of heroin in a cargo of scrap metal at Taichung Harbor and arrested three suspects on Saturday.

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'INADMISSIBLE': Former El Salvadoran president Francisco Flores Perez said that Beijing had no right to insist that its allies sever relations with Taipei
By Jenny W. Hsu
Countries that have turned their backs on Taiwan will one day face the consequences of their actions, former El Salvadoran president Francisco Flores Perez said in Taipei.

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ICY REMEMBRANCE: The ship, bound for Keelung from Shanghai, carried more than 1,500 people fleeing their war-torn hometowns at the end of the Chinese Civil War
By Loa Iok-sin
"It was cold and chilly and like now it was close to the Lunar New Year," said retired professor Wu Yi-man (吳漪曼), remembering Jan. 27, 1949, when she and her cousin stood at Keelung Harbor, waiting for her father who was coming to Taiwan on the cross-strait steamer the Taiping (太平輪).

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Three Nauruan fishermen who were lost at sea for 11 days and survived on the blood and meat of a shark will get a taste of the high life on Thursday when they hitch a lift back home with Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮).

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'CREAM PUFF': While excess weight and family history have been indicators for diabetes, doctors now see thin people with unhealthy diets showing up with the disease
By Angelica Oung
Even those who are not obese or even overweight can put themselves at an increased risk of diabetes if they eat a diet high in fat content, doctors and researchers say.

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Office workers will spend an average of NT$4,825 (US$146) on Lunar New Year treats this year, the results of a survey released on Saturday showed.

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By Meggie Lu
With the "out with the old, in with the new" Lunar New Year just around the corner, Taiwanese around the nation are actively making over their homes and offices to ready them for Lunar New Year celebrations.

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