| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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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