Taiwan recycles Chiang landmark
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Taiwan reopens a giant memorial to Chiang Kai-shek as a memorial to abuses under his rule.
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Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a private museum is rebuilding a 200-meter section close to Checkpoint Charlie, the famous Cold War border crossing, to satisfy tourists who flock to the site.
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A puzzling site grew more curious with the release of a satellite photograph showing new construction there that resembles the siteâs former main building.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Feb. 2 -- Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian inaugurated a runway on one of the disputed Spratly Islands on Saturday and insisted the archipelago belongs to Taiwan despite claims by China and several other Asian countries.
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A global architectural group on Friday declared the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan&#39;s capital the world&#39;s tallest building.
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Taiwan seeks to shore up relations with its remaining allies after Costa Rica switches allegiance to China.
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The Olympic torch will not stop in Taiwan en route to the Beijing Games in 2008, Taiwanese officials said on Friday after talks broke down with China which considers the self-ruled island its sovereign territory.
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Education officials' plan to convert a landmark into a school is irking those intent on preserving the building's past.
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Symbols of former mainlanders' past, the villages are being plowed under to accommodate urban growth.
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PHANG NGA, Thailand  - Thailand is to exhume  hundreds buried after the Indian Ocean tsunami, restarting the  arduous task of putting names to thousands of unidentified  bodies, including those of the many missing foreign tourists.
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Beijing - The Tibetan capital Lhasa has launched a renovation drive to keep its original ethnic flavour after years of unrestrained urban development filled the city with modern architecture, China&#39;s state media said Monday.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 15 -- After six years of hesitation, Taiwan's legislature voted Friday night to approve only a small portion of an $18 billion arms package suggested by the Bush administration as the best way to gird the self-ruled island against any attack by China.
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Taiwan is seeking to dominate the world's orchid industry, and its government plans to bring heavy public spending into the effort.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, despised by Beijing for asserting the self-ruled island's sovereignty, paid his respects at a Tokyo war shrine on Thursday, despite China's objections.
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A Thai Buddhist temple has been reprimanded by religious authorities for selling amulets containing the ashes of cremated infants to raise money for a plot of land and a crematorium, an official said on Tuesday.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, July 8 -- The news came as a shock to many Taiwanese. After 63 years as a faithful ally of this self-ruled island, Costa Rica was switching diplomatic relations to mainland China, acknowledging that money was the big lure.
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The United States will assign military officers to its de facto embassy in Taiwan for the first time in 25 years, reversing a longstanding policy of using civilian defence contractors.