HUMAN CHAIN: The former president said that the people of Taiwan must be united in opposing Chinese threats, and holding hands was the way to accomplish it
By Chang Yun-ping
More than 70,000 people in Tainan County yesterday successfully joined hands to form a 62km-long human chain as a precursor to the upcoming 1-million-person human chain scheduled to be formed on Feb. 28 to demonstrate Taiwanese people's desire for peace and opposition to China's missile threats.

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By Jewel Huang
The negotiations over presidential debates which were aborted yesterday morning will resume on Sunday, as Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday agreed to participate. He originally declined to attend.

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GAS CHAMBERS: A program produced for British television presents evidence indicating that the repressive state tests chemical weapons on humans
A BBC program says North Korea is killing political prisoners in experimental gas chambers and testing new chemical weapons on women and children.

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More than a third of the Iranian parliament handed in resignations yesterday to protest the decision by hard-liners to disqualify hundreds of would-be legislators in upcoming elections.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has rapped China over the way it has handled its most recent SARS case, strongly recommending more research into the source of the infection.

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