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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... Tuesday, and police surrounded the building as dozens of his supporters gathered. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian has said he expects to be arrested after being questioned over alleged corruption at the prosecutor's office on Tuesday, and police surrounded the building as dozens of his supporters gathered.Speaking to reporters before entering...
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Daily Lobo (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Media Credit: Wally Santana / AP PhotoA pro-Taiwan supporter stands on a police barricade during a protest of Chinese envoy Chen Yunlin in Taipei on Thursday. TAIPEI, Taiwan - He stepped off the plane with a mission: make history by becoming the most senior Chinese official to visit Taiwan. Sign a landmark trade deal. Draw the wayward island closer to motherland China.Chinese envoy Chen...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Taiwanese protesters face off with police while demonstrating against the presence of the highest-ranking official from Communist China ever to visit the island. The official came to sign a trade agreement with Taiwan. (By Wally Santana -- Associated Press)
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... level visit to the island since it's split with the mainland during the 1949 civil war. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Last updated November 1, 2008 1:23 a.m. PTTaiwanese dogs latest victims of financial crisisBy WALLY SANTANAChen Wen-mei, a 44-year-old Buddhist follower, plays with one of over 300 dogs she looks after at her volunteer shelter in Taipei county, Taiwan, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Chen has seen a sharp increase in abandoned dogs being brought to her shelter over the last few months. Coinciding...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
... the two sides split in 1949. He is scheduled to begin his five-day visit on Monday. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A Taiwanese pro-independence group said Saturday it will pay protesters to throw eggs at a senior Chinese envoy, amid escalating tensions over his upcoming visit.Chairman Chen Yunlin of China's semiofficial Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait is to...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... multi-million dollar investment in start up of Taiwan's WiMax high speed mobile network. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Intel Corp. announced Thursday it will join the Taiwanese government in setting up a Linux software center in Taiwan to help better market locally produced laptops and mobile Internet devices to the world.The announcement by Intel Chief Executive Officer Paul...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
... visit some fear may push the island toward unification with China against their wishes. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Tens of thousands of opposition supporters marched through Taiwan's capital Saturday to protest an upcoming visit by a senior Chinese envoy, saying the trip was part of Chinese efforts to assert control over the self-ruled island.The protesters, many wearing...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
... Taiwan's stock exchange fell 150.89 points to close at 4579.62, or minus 3.19 percent. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) (Wally Santana - AP) Quotation rate, U.S. dollar against Japanese yen, and Tokyo stock price are projected on a huge screen at a foreign exchange market in Tokyo Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. Japanese shares tumbled nearly 5 percent in early trade Friday, hit by lingering...
