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...Harvard graduate is guaranteed to win the Taipei mayoral election this Saturday in a race that may have important ramifications for cross-strait relations with China...
...added the election could also have important implications for Taiwan’s often tense cross-strait relationship with China, which regards Taiwan as a rebel province...
...which advocates independence, currently holds the presidency. But Goldstein said KMT victories in Taipei and Kaoshiung, Taiwan’s second largest city, could loosen tensions across the Taiwan Strait...
...capital, Petropavlovsk, founded in 1740 by Danish explorer Vitus Bering--for whom the Bering Sea and Strait are named--is a morass of Soviet-style apartment blocks and potholed streets, incongruously framed by a mist-swathed harbor and snowcapped volcanoes. Its few hotels and restaurants are drab. Yet we found a certain eccentric charm in menus featuring "fern salad" and "boiled pieces of paste" for breakfast, and "burning mussels with rice" and "cowberry drink" for dinner...
...police closed in, Samudra made his second mistake. Authorities nabbed two of his bodyguards, who revealed that their boss planned to board a bus that was to cross by ferry boat from Java's Sundra Strait to the town of Pekanbaru on the island of Sumatra. Samudra's name wasn't on the passenger list at the Kurnia bus company's office for the Nov. 21, 5:30 p.m. departure. But another name immediately jumped out at the police: Arema. It was a nickname commonly used by those from the East Java town of Malang...