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UPGRADING: Although the government wants farmers to upgrade to high-quality produce, the DPP head said it must offer help with the expensive transition as well
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BIG BUYER: The cofounder of the Quantum Fund said he had started purchasing Taiwanese stocks after seeing a new era unfolding in cross-strait relations and in Asia
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DANGEROUS SITUATION: The communication system in the MRT can send and receive signals underground. But the municipal police can't hear them, which means long delays
By Mo Yan-chih
Taipei mass-rapid-transit (MRT) police do not use the same radio communication system as municipal police, which could result in delays and undermine public safety, a Taipei City councilor warned yesterday.

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Taipei and Shanghai were expected to forge a pact last night on exchanges over rare animal conservation, including swapping animals as gifts and know-how in animal care and reproduction.

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The Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) is working to realize the administration’s goal of implementing parental leave benefits and extended unemployment benefits, CLA Minister Wang Ju-hsuan (王如玄) announced yesterday.

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CANNIBALISM: Using US radio telescopes, a team led by Jeremy Lim, an associate research fellow at Academia Sinica, was able to prove a long-held scientific theory
Taiwanese astrophysicists have demonstrated for the first time that a Seyfert galaxy will devour its neighboring galaxies, indicating that a black hole could exist inside a Seyfert galaxy, local news reports said yesterday.

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By Diane Baker
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (雲門舞集) founder and artistic director Lin Hwai-min (林懷民) was made a knight in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Literature) by France at a ceremony in the grand foyer of the National Theater yesterday.

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Taiwanese director Sung Ming-chieh's (宋明杰) latest project will trace a Taiwanese-American man’s movements as he looks for his father in the US, Sung said from Washington on Tuesday.

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PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS: The representatives, who have been touring the nation for 10 days, held a seminar with agents to share their thoughts and observations
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Travel Agent Association (TAA) chairman Yao Ta-kuang (姚大光) asked Chinese travel service providers yesterday to reject any deal that promises to offer package tours in Taiwan for less than US$80 per day.

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The Taipei City Government will replace mercury thermometers with free electronic ones on Saturday in support of the central government's ban on the sale of mercury thermometers, a city government official said yesterday.

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By Loa Iok-sin
Pan Ying-chieh (潘英傑) and Wang Pan Mei-yu (王潘美玉) were honored for their poetry yesterday at a ceremony for outstanding literary works written in romanized Aboriginal languages — something they said they could not dream of five years ago.

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The Taipei Times will soon launch a weekly page covering Taiwan's expat population. The page will be packed with stories, features and interviews on all that is happening in the foreign communities of Taiwan. [ FULL STORY ]