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Taiwan to build bridge off China

TAIPEI: Taiwan on Monday gave the green light for building a bridge between two small islands that it controls off China, in what officials called a first step towards connecting the islets with the mainland. ...full story at Channel NewsAsia

from Channel NewsAsia on Mon, Feb 08 2010

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