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		<title>&quot;Officials agree: No state of emergency&quot;!?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After more than 10 days of  terror by the  &#8220;Middle Typhoon Marakot&#8221;, the cabinet and  legislative officials in Taiwan said that everything needed to deal with the disaster are already covered in the Disaster prevention and Protection Act!  Many rivers are still running angry muddy water and villages lost  in mud and gravels, live stocks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 8th,2009: A Sorry Father&#039;s Day in Taiwan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 8th, shortened as 8-8, rhymes with Pa-Pa (Ba-Ba), is Father&#8217;s Day in Taiwan.  Many restaurants all over were booked  full weeks ago before the date, but were not able to entertain their guests&#8217;  fathers because of a typhoon named Morakot is  pounding,  flooding, and devastating  Taiwan, much like the one named Ellen did on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://englam.net/archives/103</link>
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		<title>Closing of the World games 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 World games closed in  a spectacular style on July 26th as it was scheduled. On the evening of the day, it was reported that some 40,000 people attended  the Closing Ceremony. Every one had a small LED light in their hands, waving in tune to the movements of music, and orchestrating with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://englam.net/archives/94</link>
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		<title>Belittling Or Shy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As it was on news, Mr. Ma Ying-Jiou was introduced and inaugurated the 8th International World Games in Kaohsiung, Taiwan,  as President of the Republic of China on Thursday night, July 16th. China, though is participating in the Games, but snub the opening ceremony because  Mr. Ma inaugurated the event as the head of state.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://englam.net/archives/87</link>
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		<title>After Opening of the World Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, after the World Games was declared it&#8217;s opening by President Ma last night, a team from China finally registered with the Games&#8217; Administration this morning. President Ma, when declaring the &#8220;opening&#8221;, did not say his official title and so is much criticized in media. Actually he was introduced by the Chairman of the World [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://englam.net/archives/77</link>
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		<title>The World Games, July 16 &#8211; 26, 2009, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The World Games at Kaohsiung City in Southern Taiwan opens today.  President Ma Ying-jiou will attend the Opening Ceremony. It will be the  first time in history that the Games&#8217; Opening is declared by a Head of State. Despite of Ma&#8217;s policy of a gradual unification of Taiwan with China against the will of many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://englam.net/archives/67</link>
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		<title>Fourth Of July, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is about one year since I posted last.  Some how this blog has been inaccessible to me. What I heard was that it was closed by the former server because of  bad attacks. Fortunately my son has it restored for me by switching to  new server as a Father&#8217;s Day gift to me. Since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://englam.net/archives/58</link>
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		<title>This Fourth of July (II)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On this 4th of July, much TV coverages in Taiwan were about the first direct flights across the narrow Strait that lies between Taiwan and China in sixty years. The hostile stance taken by China against Taiwan all these years made it necessary to close that kind of direct flights. There are over 1,000 and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://englam.net/archives/53</link>
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		<title>This Forth of July! (#I)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By this Forth of July, it would be about a year since last I posted. I had been miserable, mentally or spititaully, more than physically. The only exception was during the short visit with my family in New England states, USA. Physically speaking, it was mainly from the advancing age of being 79, counting both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://englam.net/archives/52</link>
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		<title>30 Years Anniversary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, August 16, is 30 Years anniversary of the publishing of &#8220;A Declaration Of Human Rights&#8221; by the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan. Last Sunday, August 12, there was a march of 50 thousand peopple in the southern port city Kaohsiung. The march was organized by the PCT. Rains brought by Typhoon Hutih let up four [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://englam.net/archives/51</link>
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