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Legislative Yuan could overrule ECFA: speaker

A broad trade pact between Taiwan and China could be set back as legislators review and possibly overrule it, Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) said yesterday.

Taiwan’s polarized legislature could ask the government to change an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China, which is expected to take the form of a free-trade-style deal that would lower tariffs in hundreds of sectors, Wang said.

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Vulnerability of Web browser used in Chinese Google attacks, Microsoft says

Microsoft said on Thursday that a security vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser was used in cyberattacks that prompted Google to threaten to shut down its operations in China.

Meanwhile, Web security firm MaAfee Inc said the attacks on Google and other companies showed a level of sophistication beyond that of cyber criminals and more typical of a nation-state.

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People protest in front of the branch offices of China Southern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines in Taipei yesterday, demanding that Beijing withdraw the proposed M503 flight route.
Photo: Hsiao Ting-fang, Taipei Times

More than 100 demonstrators yesterday sang in unison outside the Taipei office of China Southern Airlines to express their opposition to controversial flight routes proposed by Beijing.

Headed by a coalition of social advocacy organizations and pro-independence groups, the protesters demanded that China cancel its plans for flight route M503, which runs close to the median line of the Taiwan Strait.