RARE VISIT: President-elect Ma Ying-jeou took a box of Japanese apples and four of his own books as gifts and promised to pay more visits to his former boss Lee Teng-hui
By Mo Yan-chih
Staff reporter

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Seventy-one percent of people responding to a Taiwan Thinktank survey said the incoming Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) administration should continue the policy of promoting the nation's bid to join the UN despite the failure of two referendums on the issue last week.

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By Flora Wang
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By Shih Hsiu-chuan
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MISUNDERSTOOD? FORMER AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ALEXANDER DOWN:
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By Tzou Jing-wen
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EYE IN THE SKY: A Taiwanese remote-sensing satellite was recently used to monitor the collapse of a section of Antarctic ice-shelf that is twice the size of Taipei City
The Taiwanese remote-sensing satellite FORMOSAT-2 has conducted a high-resolution photo surveillance of the collapsing Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica, the most detailed observation ever of an ice shelf disintegration, reports said yesterday.

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OLD MEETS NEW: The National Science Council is sponsoring a program to produce robots that people can use to look after their elderly parents
By Meggie Lu
In the not-too-distant future, people will be able to purchase caretaker robots capable of taking orders in Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese), Mandarin and Hakka to look after their elderly parents, the National Science Council said yesterday.

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By Loa Iok-sin
There are not enough certified babysitters to meet the demand created by a new childcare subsidy, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chen Ting-fei (陳亭妃) said yesterday.

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Hsinchu City will launch a month-long ocean festival on Tuesday to introduce the city's attractions to the public and boost tourism.

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The Taipei City Government has announced a two-stage program to reduce the number of stray dogs in the city and prevent a possible outbreak of rabies.

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Minister of National Defense Michael Tsai (蔡明憲) said yesterday that the ministry should be able to complete a probe into suspected irregularities surrounding a controversial private arms firm in the next few days.

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REMEMBERING: Vice President Annette Lu called for human rights experts to look into who was responsible for the crimes of political persecution during the era
By Shih Hsiu-chuan
A memorial was inaugurated in Taipei yesterday to commemorate victims of the White Terror era, a chapter in Taiwan's history that participants at the ceremony yesterday said still raised unanswered questions today.

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By Meggie Lu
Twenty million tonnes of agricultural waste is produced in Taiwan each year, but with a little technical dress-up the waste can be converted into high-quality fertilizers and increase agricultural production by 15 percent to 20 percent, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said earlier this week.

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