By Tsai Wen-Chu AND Shao Hsin-Chieh
Tainan prosecutors indicted five professional baseball players and Tainan County Council Speaker Wu Chien-bao (吳健保) on Tuesday for fixing professional baseball games.

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UNINFORMED PUBLIC: In a recent online survey, 87 percent of respondents had no idea that a case of child sexual abuse may occur as often as every 27 minutes
The problem of child sexual abuse may be more prevalent than the public realizes, with the actual number of victims estimated at approximately 20,000 per year, though only around 3,000 cases are reported, the non-profit Garden of Hope Foundation said yesterday.

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By Jimmy Chuang
The Taiwan High Court yesterday reduced the prison sentence for former Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Examination Bureau director-general Lee Chin-chen (李進誠) from 10 years to nine years and six months for his involvement in the “vultures” insider-trading scandal.

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THAWING AT LAST?: The US$89.7 million contract awarded to Boeing was for arms destined for Taiwan, although unrelated to weapons purchases frozen since last year
By Richard Hazeldine
The US Department of Defense on Tuesday took what Taiwan hopes were the first steps to unfreezing US$12 billion in arms purchases when it awarded a contract for 60 Harpoon air-launched missiles destined for Taiwan, Defense News reported in an article on Tuesday.

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By Jenny W. Hsu
Taiwan was “not happy” with the unfair treatment it received at the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) held in the Polynesian island-state of Niue last week, where its delegation was forced to meet with representatives of six Pacific allies at a hotel rather than at the main venue, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday.

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By Flora Wang
Faced with low approval ratings, the Cabinet yesterday published a report on the Government Information Office Web site detailing the administration’s work over the past three months.

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TO-DO LIST: At the next round of cross-strait talks, the two sides will discuss transporting cargo on direct passenger flights, a senior SEF official said
By Ko Shu-Ling
It is not feasible to grant Chinese tourists visiting Kinmen and Matsu landing visas or multiple entry visas unless Beijing adjusts its policies, a senior official at the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) said yesterday.
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By Shelley Shan
The Tax Reform Alliance (公平稅改聯盟) yesterday asked the National Communications Commission (NCC) to ban three commercials on tax policy paid for by a local business association, saying the ads were designed to mislead the public.

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TOWNSHIPS PROTEST: One Jinshan resident said the if the EPA thought the used fuel rod storage plan was safe they should be willing to live in the area
By Meggie Lu
Despite angry protests by more than 700 Jinshan Township (金山) residents in front of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) yesterday, spent fuel from the First Nuclear Power Plant will be stored in dry casks in the Taipei County township for the next 40 years, or until a permanent storage site is found.

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Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) Director-General Lee Long-wen (李龍文) said yesterday that his agency does not have the authority to tell airlines what routes they should fly.

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The Sports Affairs Council (SAC) has proposed spending NT$1 billion (US$31.7 million) on a preparatory program for the 2012 London Olympics as part of its budget for next year, which was submitted to the legislature yesterday.

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By Mo Yan-chih
As part of efforts to stimulate the tourism industry and build Taipei City into a shopper’s paradise, the Taipei City Government will launch a month-long “Taipei Shopping Festival” on Saturday, with more than 2,500 stores offering discounts and prizes.

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The annual Wanan (萬安) air raid drill will be held at 2:30pm today in seven northern cities and counties, and residents in those areas are urged to stay inside of the building or follow instructions for evacuation during the 30-minute drill.

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SEMINAR TOPIC: A two-day seminar on fighting trafficking in humans and drugs opened yesterday in Taipei, drawing both local and foreign delegates
With Taiwan listed as a Tier 2 country for the second straight year in an annual US human- trafficking report, the National Immigration Agency (NIA) said yesterday it had completed a draft anti-human trafficking proposal and would submit it to the Executive Yuan at the end of this week.

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