WHEN IS A HOLIDAY NOT A HOLIDAY?: KMT Legislator Wu Yu-sheng also suggested abolishing three other national holidays designated by the previous DPP government
By Flora Wang
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Wu Yu-sheng (吳育昇) yesterday said he planned to propose that the government cancel 228 Memorial Day as a holiday — a proposal that immediately met with criticism from the opposition and family members of the 228 Massacre victims.

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China and the US will resume military consultations this month that were postponed last year when Washington announced a planned weapons sale to Taiwan, state media said yesterday.

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The Saudi king on Saturday dismissed the chief of the religious police and a cleric who condoned killing the owners of TV networks that broadcast “immoral” content, signaling an effort to weaken the country’s hardline Sunni establishment.

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NEW FACTS: : The senator who took US President Barack Obama’s senate seat said he had not had the chance to mention some calls at a previous hearing
US Senator Roland Burris said in a document released on Saturday that former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s brother asked him for campaign fundraising help before the governor appointed Burris to the Senate.

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Pakistani Taliban militants have freed a Chinese engineer held captive for nearly six months, officials said yesterday, as fears rose for the safety of an abducted American threatened with imminent death by his kidnappers.

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