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Taiwanese students join protests in Copenhagen

About 30 Taiwanese university students joined thousands of protesters on the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark, on Saturday to demand that world leaders take stronger action to fight climate change.

Some of the Taiwanese were dressed as the endangered Formosan black bear, while others wore cardboard cutouts depicting Taipei 101 with a ring-shaped life preserver to show that Taiwan is under threat of rising sea levels.

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US readying arms sale: magazine

Foreign Policy magazine says that US President Barack Obama “is getting ready” to announce an arms sales package to Taiwan that will include Black Hawk helicopters and Patriot missile batteries.

“Taiwanese sources now say they expect the decision shortly after Obama returns from the climate-change conference,” the magazine said.

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From left, Democratic Progressive Party legislators Wang Ding-yu, Lo Chih-cheng and Su Chen-ching yesterday hold a news conference in Taipei to discuss Mega International Commercial Bank’s branch in the US being fined for ignoring money laundering regulations.
Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei Times

US authorities had warned Mega International Commercial Bank’s New York branch that it had violated US money laundering regulations as early as 2013, after the bank dramatically increased the size of loans to businesses affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators said yesterday.