BEHIND BARS: Kuo's Tai-sheng's appearance in court came the day after Gregg Bergersen was ordered to be released from custody after posting US$100,000 bail
By Charles Snyder
The Taiwanese-American charged by the US with providing China with secret information on US arms sales to Taiwan, Kuo Tai-sheng (郭台生), was denied bail and ordered to remain in custody by a federal court in a Virginia suburb of Washington on Friday.

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DRUGS CLAIM: KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou called on the Hsieh camp to take its accusations to prosecutors and allow the judicial system to examine the case
By Jenny W. Hsu and Mo Yan-chih
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's (謝長廷) campaign team yesterday accused Hsieh's Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) counterpart Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of violating the Public Officials' Conflicts of Interests Prevention Act (公職人員利益衝突迴避法).

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TWENTY QUESTIONS: Green Party Taiwan Secretary-General Pan Han-shen will ask the candidates if they would sign the Kyoto Protocol if Taiwan were in the UN
By Loa Iok-sin
Gay marriage, environmental issues, preservation of Aboriginal cultures, farmland conservation, whether the Suhua Freeway should be constructed and human rights were among the questions the nation's citizens wanted to ask the two presidential candidates in their coming debate.

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China is expected to face intensified pressure from the international community before the Beijing Olympics over its support for the Sudanese government, but Taiwan so far has no plans to boycott the Games, a Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) official said on Friday.

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By Jenny W. Hsu
Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) was absent yesterday when a group of his supporters endorsed Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) and running mate Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) for next month's presidential election.

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By Mo Yan-chih
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday expressed his opposition to President Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) plan to replace the UN referendums with a defensive referendum.

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SUPPORT: FAT employees gathered at the company headquarters to show support for their employer. Paychecks are still coming in and the year-end bonus is imminent
By Shelley Shan
The Civil Aeronautics Administra-tion (CAA) will not request that Far Eastern Air Transport Corp (FAT, 遠東航空) immediately disclose its financial statement for the last fiscal year, CAA director general Billy Chang (張國政) said yesterday.

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PROGRAM: Police and lawyers are divided on whether the presence of an attorney during police questioning will help an investigation or make a case more difficult
By Rich Chang
People's legal rights could soon be enhanced thanks to two new measures allowing attorneys to play a greater role during prosecution.

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By Meggie Lu
The Year of the Rat may have started off in a bad way for Chinese Crested Terns, protected rare birds found on Matsu Island (馬祖), as they may face extinction because of a rat epidemic.

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Business class tickets for travel on the high speed rail will be discounted by 20 percent from March 1, the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) announced on Friday.

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Temperatures across the country rose yesterday and are expected to continue rising next week as the cold front that has affected the country for the past two weeks gradually dissipates, the Central Weather Bureau said.

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