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Offspring of Greg Wiles' cloned dairy cows gather in a pen Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007, at the Futuraland Farm in Williamsport, Md. It wasn't clear whether the cloned cows still may be made into hamburger in violation of a voluntary U.S. food industry ban.
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Taiwan seeks safer ranking for its beef
Wed 2 May 2012
| Taiwan is preparing to apply to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) to have its beef safety level upgraded next year, an animal quarantine official said yesterday. | Like the US, which co... (photo: AP / Jason Turner)
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 Taipei Times 
Beef consumption not causing brain disease, CDC says
Sun 29 Apr 2012
| There has been only one reported case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) — the fatal human form of mad cow disease — in Taiwan, which was likely caused by the person eating infected bee... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Indian Yellow Mango Fruit being sell on the market in Kolkata in Eastern India City  Taipei Times  Wed 25 Apr 2012
Tests find more pesticides on fruit
| A second round of tests on fruit and vegetables sold at six of the nation’s main supermarkets and wholesale chains showed that hazardous pesticide residues were found on 20 of the 36 products test... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
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The Stump-tailed Macaque (Macaca arctoides), also called the Bear Macaque, is a species of macaque found in Southern Asia. It is primarily frugivorous, with its diet mostly consisting of fruits. It eats many types of vegetation such as seeds, leaves and roots, but also hunts freshwater crabs, frogs, bird eggs and insects.  Taipei Times  Sun 22 Apr 2012
Monkey numbers soaring
| The Shei-pa National Park and Wuling Farm yesterday urged visitors not to feed the surging number of Formosan rock macaques living in the area, fearing that regular feeding might encourage the monke... (photo: Creative Commons / Ayacop)
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Human Body - Exercise - Man - Fitness Newstrack India Fri 20 Apr 2012
Exercise 'reduces death risk from cardiovascular disease in BP patients'
| Washington, Apr 20 (ANI): Exercise reduces the risk of death from cardiovascular disease in people suffering from high blood pressure, a new study has revealed. | In th... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
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A shouting protester holds a slogan against Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou outside the Taipei Flora Expo where Chen Yunlin, chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, is visiting, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, in Taipei, Taiwan. Senior envoys from China and Taiwan signed an agreement on Tuesday to cooperate in the development of new drugs, as the two economies continue to move closer. The Examiner Fri 20 Apr 2012
Taiwan independence advocate calls for Ma Ying-jeou to resign
| Koo Kwang-ming, a leading advocate of Taiwanese independence, has called on Ma Ying-jeou, the President of the Republic of China in-exile, to resign because lack of pub... (photo: AP / Chiang Ying-ying)
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An investor watches the Taiwan Stock Exchange fall sharply at a local brokerage, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008, in Taipei, Taiwan. Stocks fell minus 284.14 or -5.71 percent to 4694.12. Taipei Times Wed 18 Apr 2012
TWSE seeks to expand buying interest in CBBCs
| The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corp (TWSE, 台灣證交所) said yesterday it would expand its number of underlying stocks for callable bull/bear contracts (CBBCs) in a bid ... (photo: AP / Wally Santana)
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