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Tuesday November, 22, 2016 |
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TransAsia Airways (復興航空) took aviation authorities and some of its own staff by surprise yesterday with an announcement that it would suspend all flights scheduled for Tuesday. > National | ||
South Korea's main opposition party voted Monday to seek the impeachment of President Park Geun-Hye after prosecutors named her a criminal suspect in a snowballing corruption case.
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 | National Taiwan University's labor union and graduate student association published a petition Sunday demanding that allegations of academic fraud by faculty be investigated by an independent committee. > National | |
 | U.S. President Barack Obama bid farewell to the world stage Sunday, pondering his legacy, offering advice to his successor and discussing his post-presidential life at the end of his final foreign tour.
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President Tsai Ing-wen's approval rating has fallen to a record low of 26 percent, and her disapproval rating has inched up to 46 percent five months after taking office, according to findings of a poll released on Monday by TVBS, a cable TV channel in Taiwan.
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 | Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy crashed out of the presidential election on Sunday, suffering a humiliating defeat in the first round of the right-wing primary. > Europe | |
State-run Taiwan Sugar Corporation (Taisugar, 台糖) is considering scrapping its wholesale business Taisuco (台糖量販), as the ailing segment has lost the company NT$2.43 billion over the past seven years. > Business | ||
 | US President Barack Obama bid farewell to the world stage Sunday, pondering his legacy, offering advice to his successor and discussing his post-presidential life at the end of his final foreign tour. > Americas | |
 | Emergency workers raced to find any more survivors in the mangled wreckage of an Indian train that derailed Sunday, killing at least 120 people, in the worst disaster to hit the country's ageing rail network in recent years. > India | |
 | Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy crashed out of the presidential election on Sunday, suffering a humiliating defeat in the first round of the rightwing primary. > Europe | |
 | R.O.C. envoy James Soong (宋楚瑜) had "natural and friendly interaction" with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in Peru, a Taiwan delegation member said Sunday.
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 | At least 104 people were killed when 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track in northern India early Sunday, with rescue workers using cutting torches to try to pull out survivors, police said. > India | |
