Taiwan Island Fortress Hopes to Leave Past Behind
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Lin Cheng-pin has never fought a single battle, but he knows what it is like to live in a time of war.
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TAIPEI - Taiwan denied that the island&#39;s nuclear weapons programme - abandoned in the 1980s - involved experimenting with separating plutonium.
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Taiwan is ready to meet China&#39;s demands for resumption of cross-Strait charter flights, paving way for direct transport links disrupted by more than 50 years of dispute over sovereignty.
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Rough waters lie ahead for Taiwan in 2005, as President Chen Shui-bian seems determined to use his second term in office to extricate the island from its unstable and delusory connection to China.
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TAIPEI: Taiwan&#39;s defence authorities said yesterday it is the country&#39;s standing policy not to develop or use nuclear weapons, as atomic officials denied developing such weaponry 20 years ago.
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KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan  - One day before Kaohsiung chooses a new mayor, Taiwan's second city hardly seems like ground zero on the politically volatile island.
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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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Symbols of former mainlanders' past, the villages are being plowed under to accommodate urban growth.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian headed Saturday to the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea, media reported, in a move likely to spark tensions in the region.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged to  reunify the mainland with the island of Taiwan, vowing to  contain forces intent on independence for the island to ensure  the sacred goal of national unity.
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Taiwan Foreign Minister Mark Chen left  on a trip to Grenada three days early to offer help to the  hurricane-devastated island, but will stop off on a private  visit to the United States, a Taiwan spokesman said on Sunday.
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Recent comments by President Chen Shui-bian on the sensitive issue of Taiwan&#39;s name revealed his intention to steer the island toward independence, a Chinese government spokesman said.
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TAIPEI  - In a move likely to anger China, Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian has vowed to push through a new constitution describing the island as an independent state and threatened to hold a referendum on Taiwan&#39;s future.
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I am a professor of geography visiting Taiwan, and have read about the proposed construction of a freeway from Taipei to Hualien. The experience of communities in North America and Europe has been fairly consistent
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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The head of U.S. Pacific Command pushed China on Tuesday to be more transparent about its defense build-up and suggested its growing military might was aimed at Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui has strongly defended his visit to a Tokyo war shrine that had angered Beijing and clouded Sino-Japanese ties, and repeated his view that the self-ruled island was independent.