CHINA ON THE RISE: Sloppy defense, a lack of clutch hitting and a general lethargy landed the Taiwanese national team another embarrassing loss to China
By Jackson Broder
For the second time in six months, China’s baseball team has handed Taiwan a humiliating loss.

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‘WISHFUL THINKING’: A DPP spokesman said that the central bank governor’s remarks showed that China had no plans to deal with Taiwan on an equal footing
By Su Yong-yao
China’s central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan (周小川) said on Friday that the contents of a cross-strait memorandum of understanding (MOU) or economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) could be modeled after “the experience China had with Hong Kong.”

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China accused the Dalai Lama of seeking to carve out a “Greater Tibet” yesterday and warned other countries to shun contact with him just days before a sensitive anniversary in the tense region.

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US President Barack Obama will tomorrow wipe out another contentious aspect of his predecessor George W. Bush’s legacy by removing curbs on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research.

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Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party said the car accident in which the prime minister was hurt and his wife was killed could have been avoided if proper security were in place, its secretary general said yesterday.

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