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Rallying for WHO entry in Seattle on the 17th: For Immediate Release June 16, 2008 Contacts: Rebecca Lee 206-390-2839 CJ Wang 202-210-0436 Iris Ho 202-280-0166 TAIWANESE AMERICANS IN SEATTLE CALL UPON PACIFIC ...

A tornado touched down in Jewell at approximately 9 p.m. Thursday, leaving many without homes or businesses and blocking Highway 14 until debris was cleared. The community's water tower was destroyed as well as many utility poles and lines, leaving residents without water and electricity. The American Red Cross is on the scene, along with Jewell County emergency management and other county officials and agencies.

Most heavily damaged was the northwest part of Jewell; Some homes along Highway 14 were either damaged or destroyed and the Jewell Cafe was destroyed. A new large metal building was destroyed at Bohnert Welding and Seed. Two other metal buildings north of Bohnert were also destroyed -- Bourbon Trucking and Smith Cutom Harvesting. Further north, the Broadbent house was also heavily damaged.

“We're just going to look at every possibility that exists out there and then we're going to take it to the community.”

MANALAPAN - Anthony Manisero will serve his third term as the kindergarten through eighth-grade Board of Education president, following last week's board reorganization. via Asbury Park Press Online

Critics slam Siew s China visit CROSS-STRAIT: Critics said Vincent Siew s participation in the Boao Forum, use of a Taiwan compatriot travel document and talks with Hu Jintao could undermine Taiwan s interests ... via Taipei Times

Formoso has been named a Tree City USA community for the 23rd year by the Arbor Day Foundation.

Mayor LaVernia Peters said, "I'm pleased that once again Formoso will receive this award. Trees are important to all citizens and they are needed to purify the air." She and Nancy Spiegel, a tree board member, will go to Manhattan this week to receive the award.

John Rosenow, chief executive of the Arbor Day Foundation, said, "Tree City USA designation recognizes the work of elected officials, staff and citizens who plant and care for the community forest. Trees are a vital component of the infrastructure in our cities and towns, and provide environmental and economical benefits. A community and its citizens, that recognize these benefits and provide needed care for the trees deserves recognition and thanks." Read more

“This makes us doubt which side of the Taiwan Strait the KMT is standing on”

STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA, WASHINGTON Sunday, Mar 16, 2008, Page 4 A US-based pro-Taiwan independence group on Friday said the Chinese Nationalist Party was colluding with China in suppressing Taiwan after the ... via Taipei Times

“Many young people in Taiwan take freedom for granted. We must urge young people to get involved and be proud of Taiwan”

By Jenny W. Hsu STAFF REPORTER Saturday, Mar 08, 2008, Page 3 Ignorance of Taiwanese history is behind young people's indifference to politics, foreign speakers said yesterday at a Taiwan Society sponsored ... via Taipei Times

“The President must do these, or the people will make their judgment and act on the basis of their convictions”

SOME hate the Lakas-Kampi crowd now in power so much. They want to get rid of President Arroyo and Vice-President de Castro through people power. via Manila Times

“They can't agree on one set of rules.”

Projects funded through official development assistance loans are not intended to be exempt from the Procurement Act or Republic Act 9184. via ABS-CBN News

The Spanish Nobel prize-winning writer Camilo Jose Cela has been accused of plagiarising the work of a lesser known author for one of his best-selling books. via The Independent

Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura ... via Today's Chemist At Work

Thursday, January 10, 2008 The China Post news staff The fact that violating the Wildlife Conservation Act can cost you dearly was underscored by a recent incident involving the owner of a clothing shop in ... via The China Post

'RIDICULOUS POLICY': The DPP says the KMT's decision to boycott the referendums would waste NT$240 million spent by the CEC to prepare for the KMT's referendum By Shih Hsiu-chuan After replacing two local ... via Taipei Times

“We did not have enough time to deliberate on it. We discussed Taiwan earlier and the F16 issue was moving faster than we had a chance to catch up with.”

Yesterday the Taipei Times reported that the Formosa Association for Public Affairs , the premier advocacy group for Taiwan in the US, had slammed Steve Young of the officially unofficial US representative ... via The View from Taiwan

“Nakuryente siya, hindi ko nakita pangalan niya sa listahan (He might have heard it wrongly because I didn't see his name on the list)”

National Arroyo to Neri: Stay, face Senate NBN probe The final answer came shortly after 7 p.m. Monday and according to Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye, President Arroyo ordered Chairman Romulo Neri of the ... via ABS-CBN News

“If it is subject to the loan and the loan never comes, you've violated the procurement law because you did not go through the bidding”

Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza on Thursday said that a public bidding was no longer necessary because the $329-million nationbal broadband network deal because it is "a contract ... via ABS-CBN News

“Despite having been initially entertained by the DOTC, CICT, as well as by the National Economic and Development Authority, AHI was eventually shut out from the NBN project”

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 SC urged to stop broadband deal implementation ONE of the two companies that made a pitch for the construction of the broadband infrastructure project on Monday asked the Supreme ... via Sun-Star Manila