Ex-Taiwan leader in shrine visit
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A former Taiwanese president visits the Yasukuni war shrine in Japan, despite objections by China.
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Japan has decided to issue a visa for former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to visit this year, a government spokesman said Thursday, a decision that could exacerbate tense relations with China.
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The 2008 presidential candidate of  Taiwan&#39;s ruling party appealed on Monday for U.S. understanding  of the island&#39;s frustration at being isolated by China and  vowed efforts to restore dialogue with Beijing.
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Taiwan's president plans to make a key announcement, hoping to improve relations with China.
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SANTIAGO : Chinese President Hu Jintao has told Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that his visits to a shrine honouring Japan&#39;s war dead including war criminals are the &quot;crux&quot; of the problem in Sino-Japanese ties.
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TOKYO - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda on Tuesday complained about the media covering former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui&#39;s visit to Japan in defiance of the government&#39;s request that they play the visit down.
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Taipei, Dec. 26 (CNA) Former President Lee Teng-hui is scheduled to depart for Japan Monday for a week-long sightseeing tour, informed sources said Sunday.
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A senior Islamic cleric is on his way to see Yasser Arafat, who is in a coma and has suffered a brain haemorrhage.
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BEIJING, Feb. 1 -- Two senior Chinese officials flew to Taiwan Tuesday to attend the funeral of a deceased Taiwanese leader, the latest in a series of conciliatory gestures from Beijing designed to lower tensions across the Taiwan Strait.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian on Saturday visited the Spratly islands, the defence ministry said, in a move aimed at underscoring Taipei's claim to the disputed group but which will likely spark tensions in the region.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao ( è¡é¦æ¿¤ ) on Sunday warned Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that his controversial visits to a shrine honoring war criminals are the &quot;crux&quot; of the problem in Sino-Japanese ties.
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The chances of an unexpected conflict across the Taiwan Strait have diminished with the retirement of China&#39;s former President Jiang Zemin (æ±æ¾¤æ°) from his post as military chief, a high ranking official from the Mainland Affairs Council contended
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China warned Japan on Thursday it was putting relations at risk by allowing former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to visit, as Lee courted more controversy by suggesting he might go to a Tokyo war shrine.
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Taiwanese pay their respects to the infamous crime boss Chen Chi-li, who died earlier this month.
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ISLAMABAD, September 20 (Online): Former chief minister Punjab and the exiled PML-N, president Mian Shahbaz Sharif will likely to visit Pakistan to attend the wedding ceremony of two of his daughters, say close sources to exiled Sharif family.
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Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe,   pledged on Tuesday to boost his country's role in global   affairs while trying to improve relations with China, frayed by   predecessor Junichiro Koizumi's visits to a Tokyo war shrine.
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Famed Chinese basketball player Yao Ming, an all-star basketball player with the Houston Rockets, has applied to visit Taiwan on a trip that would score one for Beijing's agenda of uniting the two territories.