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Liu Qian is a magician from Taiwan who is now famous all over China, and increasingly, the rest of East Asia. He performed at the annual Spring Festival Gala this year and last year and has become a national phenomenon.

Taipei, Jan. 28 (CNA) Japan will enact a law to smooth the way for an exhibition of art treasures from Taiwan's National Palace Museum there, Legislative Yuan Speaker Wang Jin-pyng said Thursday.

Taipei - A 17-old Taiwanese boy chopped off his father's hands after disagreements about the son's refusal to work, police said Tuesday. "The boy, with the help of his teenage friend, first hit the victim's head with a baseball club four times when he was sound asleep in his room Monday night," a police officer in Miaoli county said by phone.

When the Japanese introduced pigeon racing to Taiwan early last century, they probably had no idea what an impression it would make.
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The cephalopod, big as a man's hand, is grilled both sides, slashed horizontally and then vertically - butterflied, essentially, and finished with a few flips to char both sides. As it chars he brushes its surface with thick soy sauce. After a query ('La jiao?' - 'Hot chili?') - he adds a sprinkle of dried chili flakes.

TAIPEI -- 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 good, a court spokesman said on Tuesday.

As the Tao tribe of Taiwan celebrate the ritual launch of a newly carved fishing boat, there is concern nuclear waste could affect their catch.

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) The Yeh family in Taiwan's island county of Penghu was bombarded with congratulatory visitors and calls Saturday after it was announced that its four-year-old boy had won a free year-long holiday on one of the archipelago's uninhabited islands.

She effectively left town more than 20 years ago, but Barbie is still the queen of a Taiwan town whose fortunes were once linked to the slender doll, and where many people just can't forget her.

Taiwan is considering building a bridge to mainland China in the latest sign of warming ties between the cross-Strait rivals, an official said Thursday.

President Ma Ying-jeou asked Taiwan's top economic planners to conduct a feasibility study when he visited Kinmen, a Taiwan-controlled fortified island group off the Chinese mainland, in August.

Taipei, Feb. 3 (CNA) Baseball legend Sadaharu Oh said Tuesday that despite recent gambling scandals in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) , he is confident that the local baseball community can find a way to win back the hearts and minds of once loyal fans.

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how embarrassing..can you possibly imagine the stress..and Wang-Chung's considerate concern

Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom placed fifth with scores of 8.6. Australia ranked eighth with a score of 8.5.
China ranked 21st with a score of 6.5 among the 22 countries -- only slightly better than Russia, which placed last with a score of 5.9.

I couldnt help putting this one in as well - considering the belt-tightening times we are about to go into - a sign of the times and Subway is leading the charge..