TAIWAN WOO!: The Cabinet called the decision to block a Taiwanese cheerleader from entering China 'unreasonable', while some said she had been 'provocative'
By Flora Wang

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By Mo Yan-chih
To serve more people with comprehensive information about the city, the Taipei City Government is considering cooperating with the Taipei County and Keelung governments to expand its “1999 hotline” service.

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The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) will dispatch two five-member delegations to the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention in the US later this month and early next month respectively, a senior party official said yesterday.

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Some 10 think tanks are considering establishing a "forum on defending Taiwan" in response to the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) administration’s policy on opening up Taiwan to China, a think tank member said yesterday.

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OUT OF BOUNDS: Analysts said that President Ma does not have the right to 'revoke' document classifications made by former president Chen when he was still in office
By Ko Shu-ling
There is a case for former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) to make in President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) declassification of the documents pertaining to Chen's "state affairs fund," analysts said, citing not only national security but also confidentiality within the Presidential Office.

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NOT WORKING: A crowd of demonstrators called on the president to make good on his campaign vow to extend the period an unemployed person is eligible for benefits
By Loa Iok-sin
Dozens of unemployed people and their children staged a demonstration on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office yesterday, urging President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and his administration to help the jobless find employment.

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By Emmanuelle Tzeng
In the face of economic recession, people are searching for opportunities to make money, with some even willing to stand for eight hours a day on the streets in heavy traffic and in all kinds of weather, holding billboards advertising sumptuous apartments they are unlikely to ever afford with their meager wages.

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By Meggie Lu
People can ward off the summer heat by going into the wild and learning to embrace what nature has to offer, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said yesterday.

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CLEAN START: The prints were originally taken as part of a Ministry of the Interior campaign that was to have seen fingerprints included on identity cards
All fingerprint files collected from Taipei residents between 2003 and 2005 have been destroyed by official sanction, Taipei City Government Bureau of Civil Affairs Deputy Director Chen Chi-yung (陳其墉) said on Saturday.

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