LAST ROLL OF THE DICE?: The president is hoping that Su Tseng-chang will turn the Cabinet around after an ineffectual period under Premier Frank Hsieh
President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) has named former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) as the new premier in an appointment aimed at bolstering support for his party ahead of the 2008 presidential election.

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The human rights situation in China has deteriorated in the past year as Beijing clamped down on free expression and used force to suppress social unrest, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.

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HOPELESS HOARDING?: Countries around the world may be stockpiling the drug in anticipation of an epidemic, but a new study suggests it may be pointless
There is no evidence that Tamiflu, the drug being stockpiled by the US and Europe, will work if a bird flu pandemic takes off in humans, according to a review published yesterday by the Lancet medical journal.

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Violent street protests shook southern Ivory Coast for a fourth day yesterday as many supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo ignored his call to return home and demanded the UN be punished after a fatal battle involving UN peacekeepers.

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Late last year, doctors at National Taiwan University Hospital took turns to manually give a woman cardiopulminary resuscitation (CPR) for 280 minutes -- more than four-and-a-half hours -- and succeeded in saving her life.

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