STILL IN A FREEZE: Honeywell International was given approval for an extension of a previously issued license to sell engines to Taiwan for its Indigenous Defense Fighter
By Charles Snyder
The US State Department has approved a license for Honeywell International Corp to provide Taiwan with US$1.1 billion worth of engines for Taiwan’s Indigenous Defense Fighter.

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A Taiwan-based Chinese dissident yesterday blasted the US, calling the country “as crooked as China” for rejecting an asylum request made by him and two other Chinese dissidents.

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By Mo Yan-Chih
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) denied yesterday that Taoyuan County Commissioner Eric Chu (朱立倫) and Chiayi Mayor Huang Ming-hui (黃敏惠) would serve as vice chairpersons of the party, but acknowledged that the KMT is handing over more power to younger generations.

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REDUCING WASTE: The goal of the system is to replace at least 60 percent of printed government correspondence with electronic documents
By Shih Hsiu-Chuan
An online sign-off system is expected to be extended to governmental agencies at all levels nationwide starting next year to reduce paper waste, an official with the government’s IT management department said yesterday.

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FEWER INCIDENCES: The ministry reported the finding on a Web site that informs the public of incidents undermining Taiwan’s participation in international events
China seems to have relented in its ongoing diplomatic campaign to pressure Taiwan in the international arena, as fewer examples of such behavior were reported to the foreign ministry, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday.

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By Cheng Hsu-Kai
The renaming of BirdLife International’s Taiwan chapter from Wild Bird Federation Taiwan to the Chinese Wild Bird Federation has caused an uproar among some of Taiwan’s bird lovers, with the founding president of the Wild Bird Society of Penghu, Lin Chang-hsing (林長興), saying that he will call for members to resign from the Chinese Wild Bird Federation.

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LOW NUMBERS: Chinese arrivals have been disappointing because many seem to think that visiting Taiwan is costlier than other destinations, the Tourism Bureau said
The Tourism Bureau will hold promotional activities in China and work with local government agencies to ease eligibility requirements for Chinese visitors in an effort to boost disappointing visitor numbers.

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While the northern part of the country was being battered by Typhoon Sinlaku yesterday, at least one household in the northwestern coast seemed little affected by the storm lashing outside.

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By T.C. Jiang

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