Getting to know
Taiwan
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US, Japan, Taiwan launch WTO high-tech challenge against EU
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The U.S. and the two Asian countries claim that EU is violating World Trade Organization rules by imposing duties on imports of certain products such as 'cable boxes that can access the Internet,
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Games an invitation to show off nationalism
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But with Taiwan still confused over its own national identity, what type of
nationalism should it display Taiwanese or Chinese? This is the tragedy of Taiwan.
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Empty Seats at China's Sellout Olympics
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It's a mystery to spectators and journalists. Before the Olympics began, Beijing Olympic organizers reported that all 6.8 million
tickets to Olympic events were
sold out.
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To change the Olympics, change the channel
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Call it the People's Boycott. Despite worldwide protests, every major nation is sending its athletes to Beijing. That's all the more reason for you and me to stage our own silent demonstration. If you want to change the Olympics, change the channel.
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Two young Taiwanese women were refused entry by Chinese authorities
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Lee Kun-lin and Yang Hui-ju, described as volunteer cheerleaders, paid their own way to fly to Beijing Saturday, holding China-issued travel permits, according to Taiwanese media reports. However, both had been blacklisted by China as trouble-makers.
Beijing should not have issued her an entry permit only to refuse her entry on arrival.
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China's Leaders Try to Impress and Reassure World
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Earlier on Friday, Mr. Hu hosted world leaders at a luncheon inside the Great Hall of the People. His table guests illustrated China's evolving, sometimes conflicted role in world affairs.
U.S. Warns Of Chinese Cyber-Spies
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Relative of U.S. Olympic Coach Killed in Beijing
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The brutal attack shortly after midday was all the more shocking because of the rarity of violent crime in tightly controlled China, which has ramped up security measures even more for the Olympics.
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The ghost of Tiananmen haunts China's Olympic Games.
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For the West, it is the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre by the Chinese army on 4 June 1989 that is commemorated each year. But the Chinese government will never forget the mammoth demonstrations by ordinary Chinese outside the Great Hall of the People for two months that made the Communist Party tremble.
Protestors Unfurl Pro-Tibet Banner Near Olympics Venue
China intensifies crackdown on Tibet
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Bush: China's pre-Olympic crackdown "a mistake"
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Speaking during a visit to South Korea, Mr Bush also called for China to allow greater freedom of expression for its people.
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Meet A-Z: The computer hacker behind a cybercrime wave
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ZeuS helps cybergangs steal people's identity data and pull off Web scams on a vast scale.
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MIT working on ¢G6 Apple desktop
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A new project to create a ¢G6 computer is underway at MIT, the same University that spawned the One Laptop Per Child non-profit laptop.
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Taiwan's Inflation Likely Accelerated to 14-Year High
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New President Ma Ying-jeou's policies to scrap tariff caps at government-owned companies have boosted fuel and power costs, while storm damage to more than 27,000 hectares of crops cut fruit and vegetable supply in July
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Police killed in west China ahead of Games
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Assailants armed with grenades and knives killed 16 police in a restive western region of China on Monday, state media said, in just the sort of violence Beijing had hoped to avoid four days before the
Olympics.
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Solar Eclipse Friday to Fascinate Millions
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Billions of people along the path, including most of Europe and Asia, have a chance to see an interesting but much less foreboding partial eclipse. The northern half of Maine and the Canadian Maritime Provinces will be graced with a partial eclipse at sunrise.
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China's Agony of Defeat
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Chinese have had only one way of looking at
foreigners. We either look up to them as gods or down on them as wild animals.
China censoring
Internet access at
Olympics.
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