| August 14, 2009 | - Mudslides and floods caused by Typhoon Morakot killed 500 people in Taiwan. International aid for the victims was delayed because countries did not want to offend China, which claims dominion over the island, and because Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou initially refused foreign aid (a situation he blamed on a “typing error”).
| Source 1:
CNN
Source 2:
Guardian
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| May 13, 2009 | - A Taiwanese man was indicted for stabbing a friend; the man had become angry after watching a DVD called Affairs with Others' Wives that turned out to feature his wife having sex with his friend.
| Source:
MSN
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| March 25, 2008 | - The Pentagon announced that it had accidentally shipped four fuses for nuclear warheads to Taiwan.
| Source:
WP
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| October 23, 2007 | - Defense Minister Lee Tien-yu scrapped the Taiwanese military's “loving hug” policy, which required squad leaders to embrace new recruits and say, “Brother, I will take care of you” (to which recruits respond by saying, “Leader, I respect and love you”). Lee canceled the policy after a lawmaker who thought the policy was inappropriate insisted the Defense Minister accept a hug; “We are not that close,” said Lee.
| Source:
The China Post
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| August 21, 2007 | - Vacationers aboard a Taiwanese
airliner in Okinawa slid down escape chutes and sprinted to safety moments before the plane exploded. “I ran so hard,” one passenger said, “my sock tore.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| March 24, 2007 | -
Taiwan's
freeway bureau closed 600 yards of highway in Yunlin County in preparation for a massive migration of milkweed butterflies.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| February 6, 2007 | - A 40-pound boar married a 24-pound sow in Ilan, Taiwan. “They will live happily ever after,” said Hsu Wen-chuan, owner of the two swine.
| Source:
Mail and Guardian
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| February 5, 2007 | - Wang You-theng, a fugitive Taiwanese tycoon, was seized by U.S. immigration officials.
| Source:
China Post
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| August 27, 2006 | -
Taiwanese apartment-dwellers were upset to discover that their water supply contained the corpse of a 27-year-old drug addict named Kuo.
| Source:
China Post
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| June 21, 2006 | - President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan assured a live television audience that he was neither corrupt nor incompetent.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| January 13, 2006 | - Scientists in Taiwan bred three glowing pigs.
| Source:
ABC News
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| July 18, 2005 | - A typhoon struck Taiwan.
| Source:
Bloomberg News
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| June 27, 2005 | - A trader for Taiwan's Fubon Securities accidentally purchased $223 million worth of the wrong stocks.
| Source:
Bloomberg
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| April 11, 2004 | - Police in Taiwan used water cannons on protesters.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 5, 2004 | -
Taiwan's opposition asked the country's High Court to overturn the March 20 presidential election; the losing candidate, Lien Chan, has accused President Chen Shui-bian of election fraud and of staging his own shooting the day before the vote.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| March 27, 2004 | - Political violence continued in Kosovo, Gaza, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Syria; there was unrest in Haiti, where armed gangs continued to terrorize the people; in Congo, where the government put down a coup attempt; and in France, where firefighters battled police during a strike over retirement benefits. The firefighters threw garbage cans, firecrackers, and smoke bombs; the police fired tear gas.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 21, 2004 | - The president and vice president of Taiwan were both shot and wounded the day before elections; the opposition called for a recount and accused the president of staging his own shooting to win sympathy votes.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 7, 2004 | -
Taiwan's
hookers held a rally in Taipei and called for legalized prostitution.
| Source:
BBC
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| January 30, 2004 | - A dead sperm whale with an unusually large penis exploded on a street in Taiwan, showering nearby pedestrians, cars, and shops with gore.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| December 25, 2003 | -
China said it had broken up a Taiwanese spy ring.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 18, 2003 | -
Taiwan banned the sale of dog meat as food.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| December 17, 2003 | -
Taiwan reported a new SARS case, but said that the patient was a researcher who was exposed in a lab.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 17, 2003 | -
Singapore quarantined 70 people who came in contact with the researcher on a recent visit, and stocks in Taiwan dropped 2 percent.
| Source:
CNN
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| December 4, 2003 | -
China warned Taiwan that it was nearing an "abyss of war."
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 16, 2003 | - In Taipei, Taiwan, a man drove a truck containing 15 barrels of gasoline into the Ministry of Transport building, killing himself and setting the building on fire.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 5, 2001 | - Chen Shui-bian, president of Taiwan, visited Texas and received a nice gift from Rep. Tom DeLay: a new pair of eel-skin boots, embossed with the president's initials as well as the Texas and American flags, intertwined.
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| May 1, 2001 | -
President George W. Bush said that the United States would do “whatever it took” to defend Taiwan if it were attacked by China.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
Taiwan banned the eating of dogs and cats.
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