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  • Taiwan’s Wu joins IOC race vows to fight doping

    Wu Ching-kuo Photo: CFP Taiwan boxing chief Wu Ching-kuo vowed Thursday to fight doping and match-fixing as he announced his bid to run for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).Wu, head of the International Amateur Boxing Federation since 2006, formally unveiled at a press conference in Taipei his manifesto for one of the world's most prestigious sporting ...

  • Four Carriers to Launch China-Taiwan-Australia Service in June

    will launch a joint China-Australia-Taiwan service on June 7.The CAT service will employ six 4,250-TEU container vessels, including two each from Evergreen and Yang Ming and one each from PIL and Sinotrans.The port rotation is as follows: Ningbo, Shanghai and Shekou in China; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia; and back to Kaohsiung and Ningbo. The roundtrip voyage is ...

  • Taiwan and Philippines reach consensus on investigation

    Philippines have reached a consensus that investigators will not conduct direct interviews of suspects and witnesses, the Ministry of Justice said Thursday. The agreement could mean that teams of investigators will soon visit the other country, reports said. A first trip by 17 Taiwanese investigators to Manila last week faltered after local officials refused to meet them. ...

  • Former president likely to rejoin opposition party

    Taipei, May 23 (CNA) Imprisoned former President Chen Shui-bian looked set Thursday to rejoin the opposition Progressive Democratic Party (DPP) as his allies said the move would help improve his health, while others warned of its possible impact on the party. Ker Chien-ming, a party elder and a heavyweight in the Legislative Yuan, said that he had submitted Chen's application for party ...

  • Taiwan not trying to flex muscles president

    China is a peace-loving country and it is not seeking to flex its military muscles. "While we have to take measures to protect our fishermen operating within our 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone, none of these actions should be misconstrued as military exercises or flexing our military muscles," Ma said while receiving the French representative to Taipei at the Presidential ...

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The Door in the Floor

The Door in the Floor

Based on the first third of John Irving's typically epic novel A Widow for One Year, Tod Williams' The Door in the Floor is a portrait of people in pain-drawing apart, coming together, but always flailing hopelessly in their own personal way. It's an impenetrabl ... ...

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  • German scholar suggests Taipei Manila settle problem privately

    Philippines work together behind the scenes to find an agreeable solution to their current row, rather than making public demands. The problem calls for the use of diplomacy on both sides, he said, as tensions continued to escalate between Taipei and Manila two weeks after a Taiwanese fisherman was killed when a Philippine marine patrol vessel opened fire on a Taiwanese fishing boat May 9. In a ...

  • FSC chair urges investors to stay calm after bourse plunges

    Taipei, May 23 (CNA) Chen Yuh-chang, chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), urged investors Thursday to stay calm after the local bourse took a dive, sending the index below 8,300 points at the end of the trading session. Chen said the local economic fundamentals remain sound and the one-day drop in the stock market is unlikely to have any adverse effects on the economic ...

  • Top-level meeting between Taiwan China unlikely president

    Ma Ying-jeou said Thursday. Such a meeting would involve the difficult issue of titles and so far, "one cannot see the possibility of finding a solution" to that problem, Ma said in a TV interview. The main significance of such a meeting would be to ensure a continuation of the current framework for peaceful development across the Taiwan Strait, he said. The problem of how the leaders ...

  • Taiwans Air Force stepping up southern patrols

    Taipei, May 23 (CNA) The Air Force will increase its patrols over waters around the country's southern coast, Air Force Commander Gen. Liu Chen-wu said Thursday. "In the past, southern airspace was not a priority patrol area, but we will increase our sorties in the region in the future, using various types of aircraft," Liu said in an interview with local radio station UFO. The ...

  • Taiwanese Wu Ching-Kuo Announces Candidacy for IOC Presidency

    Taipei, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Taiwanese Wu Ching-Kuo announced officially today his run for International Olympic Commettee (IOC) Presidency. "Today is a special day for me. I am ready for the ext step", told reporters Wu, president of the International Amateur Boxing Association since 2006 and member of the IOC since 1998. Wu announced his candidacy under the motto "Together, ...

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