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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Taiwan Sun.com http://www.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/4a8b544d0e80ba53/ en-us Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:36:02 -0400 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:36:02 -0400 30 Singapore, Aug 28 (Xinhua) The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has concluded a free trade deal with Australia and New Zealand following three years of talks, said a joint statement issued here Thursday. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399958/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:00:03 -0400 Taiwan Sun.com http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399958/cs/1/ A Melbourne brothel-keeper who in 2006 became the first person in Australia convicted of possessing sex slaves Thursday lost her appeal against her 10-year jail sentence. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399944/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:01:22 -0400 Taiwan Sun.com http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399944/cs/1/ Investigations began Thursday into the mid-air collision in which Indian trainee pilot Akash Ananth died after the wing of his Cessna 150 was clipped by another plane and he crashed in the populated Cheltenham suburb of Melbourne. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399931/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:01:05 -0400 Taiwan Sun.com http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399931/cs/1/ Health officials and experts from Asia-Pacific countries with a low prevalence of HIV and AIDS vowed Thursday to intensify efforts to prevent the spread of the disease in their nations. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399887/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:50 -0400 Taiwan Sun.com http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399887/cs/1/ Taiwan confirmed Wednesday that the US has decided to sell 60 Harpoon Air Launch anti-ship missiles to Taipei, in a move ending a de facto freeze on US arms sales to the island. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399796/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:00:03 -0400 Taiwan Sun.com http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399796/cs/1/ Melbourne, Aug.28 : Australian Police have arrested several Indian students for violating the country's immigration laws. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/400083/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:00:02 -0400 Taiwan Sun.com http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/400083/cs/1/ New Delhi, August 28 : Scientists have found that the continent of Australia has been largely untouched by humans, and stands as one of the world's top five wilderness havens, ranking alongside the Amazon forest and the Sahara desert. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399989/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:00:52 -0400 Taiwan Sun.com http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399989/cs/1/ Melbourne, Aug 28 : A school in Australia is under attack for urging its students to read Penthouse, a soft-core pornographic magazine. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399975/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:00:25 -0400 Taiwan Sun.com http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/399975/cs/1/ Beijing, Aug 28 (Xinhua) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) have entered into a partnership to support rebuilding of southwest China's Sichuan province devastated by the May 12 earthquake, the UN agency said Thursday. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/400015/cs/1/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:02:05 -0400 Taiwan Sun.com http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/400015/cs/1/ HONOLULU: Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land. “We m... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295204/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:48:09 -0400 The Hindu http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295204/ BEIJING: China hailed Thursday a $3 billion oil agreement with Iraq as a win for both nations, as it sought to reassure the rest of the world that it should not be concerned by the deal. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295068/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:05 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295068/ Qin Gang, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, says they understand the complex histories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. He says China's ongoing position on this issue is that they hope all sides use negot... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295203/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:02:08 -0400 VOA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295203/ has opened up a Chinese subsidiary that will sell its information technology research products. ESG-Sino, which will have offices in Beijing and Wuhan, will be directed by long-time storage and netwo... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295215/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:42:11 -0400 Business Journal http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295215/ In Suva, the hot, sultry capital city, Fiji is set to welcome a new patron to champion its somewhat tarnished reputation among the scattered island nations of Oceania. Of the many problems facing thes... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295205/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:24:36 -0400 Japan Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295205/ )Island Chill bottled water company, owned by Dayals Group of Companies in Ba, has contractually secured 14 large US companies to distribute its bottled artesian water in the American market, reports http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17294818/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:53:45 -0400 Pacific Magazine http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17294818/ BEIJING (AP) The Milwaukee Bucks and the Golden State Warriors will travel to China in October to play two exhibition games, the NBA and Chinese Basketball Association said Wednesday. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295208/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:23:19 -0400 Japan Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295208/ THAILAND'S embattled prime minister vowed today to end massive rallies against his rule without force - raising the spectre of a prolonged siege of Bangkok's main government compound. More than 13,0... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295219/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:25:46 -0400 News.com.au http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295219/ Microsoft Corp. against a Taipei-based company. In the complaint filed July 30, Microsoft alleges that Primax Electronics Ltd. infringes the software maker's patents used in peripherals including keyb... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17294006/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:44:52 -0400 Computerworld http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17294006/ Clinical trials of a prepandemic flu vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline PLC will start in Japan next month, the British company's Japan unit said Thursday. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295206/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:24:13 -0400 Japan Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295206/ A fiery bus crash in Fiji's highlands has claimed at least 10 lives. The incident happened about 11pm (1900 Perth time) last night on the main island of Viti Levu when a chartered bus carrying a grou... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295217/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:00:01 -0400 West Australian http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295217/ Taihu, Suzhou, China: A massive boost to ladies professional golf in China has come with the announcement by the China Golf Association that the country will host its first ever Ladies European Tour e... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295218/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:18:35 -0400 Gulf News http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295218/ Ten people, including a pregnant mother with her two children, have been killed in a bus fire in Fiji. Fiji Police say the bus was transporting 54 people from Natokalau on Ovalau, to a funeral in Nad... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295213/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:13:18 -0400 Stuff http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295213/ According to the Foreign Ministry, Ito's body was transported out of Jalalabad on an Afghan military helicopter Thursday morning and arrived at Kabul around noon local time. Although the details had n... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295207/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:23:36 -0400 Japan Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295207/ took the lead among its domestic peers in venturing overseas, and it is now paying for it as global exposure becomes a liability in the global credit fallout. With heavy holdings of U.S. housing debt,... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17294142/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:15 -0400 Forbes http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17294142/ August 28, 2008 (IDG News Service) China has stepped up investment in its homegrown Godson microprocessor and hopes to build its first petaflop-class supercomputer using the chip in 2010, one of the c... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295216/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:44:40 -0400 Computerworld http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295216/ AUSTRALIA: August 29, 2008 SYDNEY - Australia, which is looking to sell more uranium overseas to meet growing demand for nuclear power, on Thursday approved a proposal by Heathgate Resources to expa... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295212/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:10:26 -0400 Planet Ark http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295212/ TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 28, 2008) - When it comes to fighting the sedentary routine facing children returning to school, it is good to have Takemasa Okuyama on your side. In fact, in any ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17294565/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:50:54 -0400 Market Wire http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17294565/ TOKYO — Clinical trials of a prepandemic flu vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline will start in Japan next month, the British company’s Japan unit said Thursday. GlaxoSmithKline KK plans ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295209/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:05:15 -0400 Japan Today http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295209/ TOKYO — Chinese authorities informed Japan on Thursday that the results of their investigations show frozen dumplings which triggered food poisoning in China in June are not circulating in the ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295210/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:05:09 -0400 Japan Today http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295210/ TOKYO — Japan Post Service Co has agreed to take a 66% stake in its parcel delivery service joint venture with Nippon Express Co, the two firms said Thursday. Nippon Express will hold the re... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295211/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:04:55 -0400 Japan Today http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295211/ DARWIN, Australia—An Indian woman gave birth to a healthy boy aboard a jet airliner while flying to Australia to reunite with her husband. Judith Hamel, one of four doctors who helped deliver th... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295214/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:58:36 -0400 Denver Post http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295214/ New location offers advantages for Achievo's Japanese customers SAN RAMON, Calif., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Achievo(R) Corporation, a software outsourcing and information technology services prov... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295220/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:56:41 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295220/ Seven Korean medical centers to collaborate on studies of immunosuppression in kidney transplant patients and role of cell-mediated immunity COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- "Cylex, Inc., i... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295221/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:56:39 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17295221/ DUSHANBE, Tajikistan : Russia suffered a significant setback here Thursday as members of a regional security group in which the Kremlin plays an important role offered little support for Moscow's... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290845/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:34:14 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290845/ Posted on: Thursday, 28 August 2008, 12:01 CDT Dor BioPharma has entered into a collaboration with Pacific Healthcare Thailand Co, under which Pacific will act as Dor's sponsor to administer a Named ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290850/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:59:50 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290850/ Columbia Pacific said it’s raised $135 million in a second round of financing for its Asian hospital construction fund. The fund, Columbia Asia, has raised a total of $325 million, according to... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290686/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:46:20 -0400 Puget Sound Business Journal http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290686/ MELBOURNE - Journalists at Fairfax newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have voted to strike until Monday, the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) says.Fairfax Media announced ear... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17289811/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:43:14 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17289811/ China has curbed lending to real estate projects, state media reported yesterday, as volatility in the property market triggers concerns over developers' ability to pay back loans.The central bank and... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290420/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:50:43 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290420/ The Dalai Lama was admitted to a hospital in this western Indian city Thursday to undergo tests for abdominal discomfort, his spokesman said. "Since tests haven't begun yet, we don't know w... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290690/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:34:13 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290690/ China and Iraq have reached an agreement on a landmark US$3 billion deal to exploit oil in the Middle Eastern country, the Iraqi embassy in Beijing said yesterday.The two sides reached the agreement d... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290708/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:50:36 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290708/ TOKYO, Aug. 29 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Japanese Defense Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi is arranging to meet with his U.S. counterpart Robert Gates in Washington on Sept. 8 to discuss various issues such as Ja... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290853/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:04:29 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290853/ Malaysia agreed to extend a mandate to keep its peacekeepers in the volatile southern Philippines, where they will continue to monitor a shaky cease-fire between the Philippine government and the Moro... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290842/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:09:36 -0400 VOA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290842/ 0 posts Cane toads weren't allowed to compete in the Olympics, but scientists have raced cane toads in the laboratory and calculated that they would not be able to invade Melbourne, Adelaide or Hobart... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290671/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:55:06 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290671/ said it was no longer proceeding with plans for a CTL project in the northern province of Shaanxi and would focus fully on a feasibility study of a plant in neighboring Ningxia Hui autonomous region... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290838/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:00:24 -0400 Morning Star http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290838/ Demand not short for tallest building in China By Patti Waldmeir in Shanghai Published: August 28 2008 17:44 | Last updated: August 28 2008 17:44 http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290115/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:59:42 -0400 Financial Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290115/ Iran plans to involve China and India in extracting oil from the Caspian Sea. The move may be an attempt to put pressure on the United States and European Union, experts say. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290837/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:57:47 -0400 Russian Information Agency http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17290837/ profile ) were up 43% to $6.17 billion and almost 50% above analyst forecasts. Net-interest income rose 15% and net-interest margins rose 2.66%. And all of this comes from the bank with the biggest e... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285012/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:33:03 -0400 Market Watch http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285012/ 'The flame will symbolize over the next 10 days the unique sporting spirit displayed by Paralympic athletes,' Philip Craven, president of the International Paralympic Committee, said in a speech at th... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285997/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:12:17 -0400 Khaleej Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285997/ said it will use the money to buy office properties in partnership with institutional co-investors and for general corporate purposes. “Securing this revolving facility in such a challenging cr... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285987/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:47:21 -0400 Pacific Business News http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285987/ BEIJING (AP) — China Telecom Ltd. said Thursday its first-half earnings slipped 8 percent as revenues for fixed-line voice service shrank and warned it faces pressure on profits as Beijing car... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285998/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:17:10 -0400 New Jersey Online http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285998/ LONDON--(Marketwire - August 28, 2008) - MaybachFinancial.com is one of the fastest growing independent and unbiased research firms in the world. Through our numerous partnerships with many of the t... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285457/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:57:51 -0400 Market Wire http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285457/ Users can once again access iTunes in mainland China. Apple's US-based online music store was fully blocked last week after it emerged that Olympic athletes in Beijing had used the store to download t... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285993/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:09:55 -0400 Hollywood Reporter http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285993/ The iTunes store went dark in China last week after word spread that the album, whose proceeds will be used for "peace initiatives and Tibetan cultural preservation projects important to the Dal... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285755/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:44:57 -0400 Wired News http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285755/ BEIJING : The Olympic Games have shown that sports and national pride are still tightly intertwined, and perhaps nowhere more so than in the minds of Chinese leaders. The evidence is indisputable: th... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285995/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:35:24 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285995/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vast swaths of U.S. Pacific Ocean waters could be protected as marine sanctuaries or monuments, the White House said on Monday, drawing praise from environmental groups. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285988/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:34:00 -0400 Reuters http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285988/ GUANGZHOU, China — Washington will sell $90 million worth of anti-ship missiles to Taiwan, ending what some analysts said has been a U.S. freeze on arms sales designed to ease cross-Straits tension ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17286001/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:03:18 -0400 The Register-Guard http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17286001/ TOKYO, Aug. 29 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Chinese authorities informed Japan on Thursday that the results of their investigations show frozen dumplings which triggered food poisoning in China in June are not... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17286007/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:04:01 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17286007/ Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is asking his Asian allies Thursday for their support of Russia's role in the Georgia crisis. The Russian president is attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285991/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:09:39 -0400 VOA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285991/ Ethnic Uighurs have their bags searched in the main square in Xinjiang's famed Silk Road city of Kashgar in China's far northwestern, mainly Muslim Xinjiang region in this file photo.The first outbrea... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17286006/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:30:12 -0400 ABC News http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17286006/ HONG KONG, Aug. 28 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The Bank of China, one of China's big four banks, said Thursday that accusations its U.S. branch transferred funds to terrorists in the Middle East are unsubstan... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285014/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:03:50 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285014/ SHANGHAI, China - China's tallest building, the 101-storey Shanghai World Financial Centre, is scheduled to open to the public on Saturday. The opening comes 14 years after its developer, Japanese ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17284986/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:40:06 -0400 C News http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17284986/ TOKYO, Aug. 28 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Japan and Indonesia agreed to strengthen their cooperation in promoting maritime security especially in the Strait of Malacca and disaster prevention as their foreig... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285555/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:03:46 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285555/ Caterpillar Inc. expects record sales this year as booming demand for construction and mining equipment in China and other emerging economies offsets weakness in its home U.S. market, its chairman sai... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17284852/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:08:41 -0400 Gadsden Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17284852/ (3988.HK), the smallest of China's Big Four state-run banks by assets, reported Thursday a better-than-expected 43% rise in first-half net profit from a year earlier on strong growth in interest an... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17284997/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:59:11 -0400 Morning Star http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17284997/ Pedestrians who fail to use the proper crossing points to cross the road in Shanghai face a public shaming, local media report. Police will post video and pictures of offenders in newspapers and on... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285377/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:38:47 -0400 BBC http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285377/ TAIPEI, Taiwan – Prosecutors indicted Taiwan's former investigation chief Thursday for attempting to cover up alleged money laundering by former President Chen Shui-bian. The indictment again... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285864/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:19:55 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285864/ Scandal over loose lending hits China bank CDB By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing Published: August 28 2008 16:33 | Last updated: August 28 2008 16:48 http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285985/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:58:20 -0400 Financial Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285985/ WASHINGTON : The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff secretly convened a highly unusual meeting of senior U.S. and Pakistani commanders on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean this week to discus... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285994/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:35:22 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285994/ Volleyball Iranian volleyball team will depart to Japan to participate in the Asia Volleyball Competition on Friday. Iranian team gained victory over India in the 14th Asian Junior Men's Volleyball Ch... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285996/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:10:28 -0400 IRNA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285996/ The China-ASEAN Expo has become a propeller to the China-ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Free Trade Area (FTA) construction, said an official with the Expo's organizing committee on... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285154/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:56:34 -0400 People's Daily http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17285154/ The capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, is the setting for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting, which opened today gathering together 4 Asian central republics (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kirgizst... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281127/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:51:12 -0400 Spero News http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281127/ SEOUL, South Korea - Stocks in Asia finished mixed Thursday as Japan's key index rose and Chinese shares snapped a five-day losing streak while markets in Hong Kong and India fell. Japan's benchm... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281132/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:24:22 -0400 C News http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281132/ Posted on: Thursday, 28 August 2008, 03:00 CDT By Anonymous Competitions The Piano Teachers' National Association of Japan (PTNA) will hold its 32nd Piano Competition in Tokyo. The preliminary rounds... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281131/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:49:55 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281131/ President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday claimed backing from China and four Central Asian states for Russia's actions in Georgia and said their support should send a "serious signal" to the West. "I am ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281133/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:51:16 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281133/ HONG KONG, Aug. 28 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The alleged beating of a retired worker by police in mideastern China's Jiangsu Province prompted a daylong siege of a police station by more than 100 people, a ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17280310/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:51:09 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17280310/ (AP Photo /Sergei Grits)Russian peacekeepers release one of 12 Georgian soldiers, left, on the Abkhazian-Georgian border, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Russian forces have turned over 12 Georgian soldiers ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281130/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:40:09 -0400 Examiner http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281130/ Singapore, Aug. 28 (ap) - (kyodo)—(eds: Updating With Comments From Australian, Nz Ministers, Senior Official, Clarifying That Negotiations Began In 2005, Not 2003) By Siti Rahil The 10-member As... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281135/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:51:06 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281135/ They arrived in trickles - a Chinaman, hawking cloth, needles, threads, selling cakes, eggs, shoes, cheap showy jewellery - bangles, trinkets, artificial flowers, electronic gadgets and the like. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281054/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:11:37 -0400 All Africa http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281054/ Suda+ (AP) - KANAZAWA, Japan, Aug. 28 (Kyodo)—(EDS: RECASTING WITH SUDA'S NEWS CONFERENCE. ADDING INFO) The Bank of Japan should raise interest rates if it confirms that the Japanese economy is b... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281137/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:51:01 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281137/ SINGAPORE, Aug. 28 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: UPDATING, ADDING INFO ON JAPAN-INDIA BILATERAL MEETING) Japan agreed with Australia and India in separate talks Thursday on the need to strike an outline d... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281136/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:51:01 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281136/ BEIJING, Aug. 28 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A Chinese official in charge of investigating food poisoning cases in Japan triggered by Chinese-made frozen dumplings has been replaced, a Chinese source knowledg... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17280169/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:50:47 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17280169/ BEIJING, Aug. 28 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The Chinese government on Thursday warned Taiwan off its latest attempt to get involved in the work of the United Nations, saying it could harm the recently improv... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281138/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:50:42 -0400 Breitbart http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/17281138/