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Shiao Lin Mudslide: Taiwan Military Rescues Some 300 Typhoon Victims, 400 Still Unaccounted For

AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

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CISHAN, Taiwan — Military helicopters ferried stricken villagers to safety Tuesday from remote Taiwanese communities hit by Typhoon Morakot that...

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Police: 400 unaccounted for in Taiwan mudslide

AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

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TAIPEI, Taiwan — A mudslide touched off by a deadly typhoon buried a remote mountain village in Taiwan, leaving at least 400 people unaccounted ...

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Typhoon Morakot Spawns Mudslide In Taiwan, Burying Hundreds In Debris (SLIDESHOW)

Associated Press | ANNIE HUANG | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A typhoon-spawned mudslide engulfed a mountain village in southern Taiwan, burying up to 600 people, a police official and a rescued...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The Love That Haunts: Monika Treut on Ghosted

Dan Persons | Posted 08.29.2009 | Entertainment

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Dan Persons

Treut took a pause in her globe-hopping to speak to us about lesbian love stories, Taiwanese ghosts, and the life of the world filmmaker.

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IPhone Maker In China To Pay Family In Suicide Case

AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

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TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Taiwanese employer of a young Chinese man who killed himself after being interrogated over a missing iPhone prototype has a...

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Taiwan, China Exchange 1st Direct Messages

AP | DEBBY WU | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

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TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Taiwanese and Chinese presidents swapped messages Monday, the first such exchange since the two sides split amid civil war ...

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Healthcare Trends Around The World (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Morgan Korn | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

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The one thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on when discussing healthcare is that the current U.S. system is not working. Forty-five million Ame...

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Worker dies at Apple's Chinese supplier

GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 08.21.2009 | Home

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 Apple Inc's major supplier, Shenzhen-based Foxconn Technology Group is in trouble l as rumors are saying it should be blamed for the death of it...

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World Games In Taiwan: China Boycotts Opening Ceremony

AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

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TAIPEI, Taiwan — The 100-strong Chinese delegation boycotted the opening ceremony of the World Games in Taiwan on Thursday, underscoring the lim...

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Chinese Tourists Held In Contempt In Taiwan

Global Post | Jonathan Adams | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- They deface Taiwan's scenic rock formations. They spit in public, cut in line and talk too loud. And to top it off, some even take ...

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Horrific High-Speed Scooter Crash In Taiwan Caught On Tape (VIDEO)

Posted 07.26.2009 | World

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Via LiveLeak comes this shocking video, apparently from a traffic cam of some sort, of a high-speed scooter crash. It involves two scooters who come ...

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Taiwan Toupee Snatcher Sentenced To 5 Months

Reuters | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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A man who tore the wig off a telegenic Taiwan legislator last year was sentenced to five months in jail for depriving the MP of his freedom to look go...

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Pacific island set to accept Gitmo's Chinese Muslims

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.11.2009 | Home

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Uighurs are an ethnic Muslim population who have been persecuted by the Chinese government. The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau has agree...

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Ferrari Nettop Simultaneously Awesome And Useless

The Car Connection | CarConnection | Posted 07.10.2009 | Home

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If we were more hardcore in our nerdishness, we would've found our way to last week's Computex convention in Taipei, Taiwan. But we're just softcore...

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Taiwan Showgirls Add Some Pizzazz To Tech Conventions

GlobalPost | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

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What's the best way to sell a transistor-packed, 256 bit-memory, 750mhz-clock-speed computer graphics card?...

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Can't Get Arrested

Michael Archer | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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Michael Archer

I asked Wuer Kaixi, one of the most prominent student leaders of the uprising, where he planned to be on anniversary of the Tianamen massacre. The second most wanted man in China hesitated.

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China, Taiwan Ruling Party Meet For Economic Cooperation Talks

Huffington Post | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

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In another sign of thawing relations, Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday met with Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party to...

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Taiwan Labor Groups Campaign Against Apple Computer

GlobalPost | Posted 06.21.2009 | World

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Labor rights groups are stepping up their campaign against a Taiwanese supplier for Apple Computer....

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DOD's James Fondren Jr. Charged With Leaking Classified Information To China

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Defense Department official was charged Wednesday with conspiring to give U.S. defense secrets to an agent for the Chinese g...

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Google Releases Programing Tools for Android 1.5

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.28.2009 | Home

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Samsung Electronics Co said on Monday that its first phone based on Google Inc's Android operating system would be available in major European countri...

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Waterboarding Leads to this Tortured Blog Post!

Dave Astor | Posted 05.23.2009 | Comedy

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Dave Astor

When thinking about the Bush administration-sanctioned use of this brute force, I wondered how the torture guys decided on the 183 figure. Was it some kind of homage to Hank Greenberg driving in 183 runs in 1937?

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Taiwan Nuclear Waste Stored By Poor Village For Government Money

Global Post | Jonathan Adams | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

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NANTIAN VILLAGE, Taiwan -- They tried sending it to North Korea. They tried sending it to China. Now, they're trying to send it to this remote sea...

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Tibet: Polar Perspectives. Can Both Sides Be Heard?

Jim Luce | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

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Jim Luce

The truth about Tibet is perhaps more nuanced than it has been presented by either side of the highly polarized debate.

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Google's CEO Predicts Strong Year for Android

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.18.2009 | Home

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted good times ahead for Android, the company's mobile phone OS and software. New announcements of Android-r...

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World's Rarest Shark Caught, Then Eaten

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.09.2009 | Home

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