Archive for July, 2006

Travel Book Has Blue Bias: DPP.

Monday, July 31st, 2006

By Mo Yan-chih
Taipei Times
06/31/06.

A DPP city councilor accused Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou of promoting pan-blue points of view in a travel book published by a German firm.
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On the ‘Middle Way’ of the Dalai Lama

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

People’s Daily (Source: China Tibet Information Center)
06/26/06.

The Dalai Lama has, in recent years, been telling the world he has stopped seeking “Tibetan independence” and turned towards a “middle way”.
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Wielding Soft Power: A Confucius Institute Lands in Waterloo.

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

By Andrew Chung
Toronto Star
07/30/06.

China’s aggressive push to rival the United States in global influence has finally reached … Waterloo.
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Gansu: Chinese Army Drills Destroy Taiwan Imitation.

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

AsiaNews/SCMP
07/29/06.

A Canada-based military news website got hold of high-resolution satellite photos that prove the existence of exact copies of the island on Chinese soil. But a Shanghai expert claimed this did not prove anything.
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Large Taiwan Tea Farm Set Up on Mainland.

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Xinhua
07/29/06.

Farmers from Taiwan’s tea farms on Friday opened a tea farm in a mountainous county on the mainland, making it the largest base in the mainland for the production of famous Taiwan Gaoshan Oolong tea.
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Patriotism? Show Me the Money.

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

Taipei Times: Editorial
07/12/06.

This nation’s political and military predicament makes for strange bedfellows among foreign observers.
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China’s “Peaceful Rise” - Suspicions About Its Super Power Ambitions.

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

The Tribune, India
By Gurmeet Kanwal
07/18/06.

China has inaugurated its rail link to Lhasa with pomp and show. It is undoubtedly a technological marvel, though one that will be difficult to maintain over the long term.
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Beijing Getting a New ‘Face’.

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

China Post: Editorial
07/17/06.

Some 57 years after the People’s Republic of China was founded, the government of mainland China still makes most of its important decisions amid a shroud of secrecy and mystery.
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COA Bans Whale Shark Hunting For Rest of Year.

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

Taipei Times
07/14/06.

Fishermen are banned from catching whale sharks until the end of the year as the number caught this year has already filled this year’s quota of 60, officials said earlier this week.
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Taiwan Trade Centre Opens Door to B.C..

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Vancouver Sun
07/14/06.

New Vancouver office will provide an access point for Taiwanese companies.
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