LONG TIME COMING: Academia Sinica said the findings were gleaned from a study conducted between 1991 and 2004 on 4,155 participants from seven towns in Taiwan
Gene specialists at Academia Sinica have spotted a new referential indicator of liver cancer related to the hepatitis B virus, a finding that could prove helpful in the development of new diagnostic procedures, sources at the institution said yesterday.

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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday advised travelers to Southeast Asia to take proper precautionary measures against mosquito bites as an especially high number of imported dengue fever cases have been recorded so far this year.

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By Flora Wang
The public may be able to feel a degree of ease as increases in commodity prices are expected to slow after this month, a Cabinet official said yesterday.

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By Jimmy Chuang
Taichung prosecutors yesterday declined independent Legislator Yen Ching-piao’s (顏清標) request for another delay to the beginning of his three-and-a-half year jail sentence, but have not decided what action to take.

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LA STOPOVER: The AIT chairman met President Ma Ying-jeou at LAX and attended a dinner for him during Ma＊s 16-hour stay, which was very low key
By Shih Hsiu-Chuan
American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Chairman Raymond Burghardt used the climate as a metaphor to describe US-Taiwan relations at a dinner for President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) in Los Angeles on Monday night, suggesting a thaw in bilateral ties had taken place since the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) took office in May.

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By Shih Hsiu-Chuan
President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) kept a very low profile on his first US stopover as president, staying in Los Angeles for about 16 hours without engaging in any public activities.

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WIRE TRANSFER ALLEGATIONS: Richard Lee said Chen Shui-bian would give a clear account of his actions but he hoped prosecutors would stop spreading rumors
By Ko Shu-Ling
A lawyer for former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) yesterday rejected allegations by Next Magazine that Chen used his daughter-in-law and her family to launder money and had secretly wired NT$300 million (US$9.63 million) abroad.

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Prosecutors detained the top water resources official in Chiayi County yesterday after questioning him for a second time as the chief suspect in a corruption case.

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The Kaohsiung City Government is seeking to transform its Cijin (旗津) island into a special tourism zone with an NT$40 billion (US$1.28 billion) development plan for a 100-hectare plot of land, a city official said yesterday.

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NOT FORGOTTEN: The US Congress as well as the Dutch, Canadian and European parliaments have all passed motions on the matter. Taiwan could be next
By Loa Iok-Sin
As part of a global action, several former “comfort women,” accompanied by women’s and human rights activists, staged a protest near the Japanese representative office in Taipei yesterday, asking the Japanese government to apologize and compensate the victims.

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By Meggie Lu
Animal rights activists and environmentalists petitioned in front of the Council of Agriculture yesterday, urging it to take concrete action to save the Eastern Taiwan Strait humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis), an indigenous species of dolphin whose genetic makeup confirms that it is a subpopulation of the Indo-Pacific humpback variety.

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FLOCKING PROBLEM: Following complaints by residents near Da-an Park, the city has redoubled its efforts to discourage people from feeding wild birds
By Mo Yan-chih
The Taipei City Government warned its residents yesterday not to feed pigeons in public spaces and said it had fined three individuals in June for ignoring the regulation in Da-an Park.

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By Shelley Shan
People wanting to taste delicious food will have a plateful at this year’s Taiwan Culinary Exhibition, which opens tomorrow.

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By Loa Iok-sin
Animal rights activists, environmentalists and other groups condemned the Council of Agriculture yesterday for “making a decision behind closed doors” on importing pandas from China and urged it to hold public hearings on the matter.

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