| | Abducted Taiwan Coast Guard Officer Returned by China | World | PC |
| | 2003 | | TAIPEI TIMES |
| | KIDNAP ORDEAL: A coast guard officer who had been abducted by Chinese fishermen on Sunday |
| | returned to Matsu after spending the night in China's Fuzhou. |
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| | Via the "three small links," abducted Coast Guard officer Chiang Shao-nan yesterday returned to |
| | Taiwan's Lienchiang County after he was abducted by Chinese fishermen and taken to Fujian |
| | Province on Sunday. |
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| | Five officials took a Taiwanese fishing boat to Fujian's Mawei Port to retrieve Chiang. |
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| | People First Party (PFP) Legislator Tsao Yuan-jhang, who represents Lienchiang County and was |
| | visiting Beijing, flew to Fujian Province around noon yesterday to meet up with Chiang and help with |
| | his repatriation. |
| | Nine People Still Missing in Fujian's Mountain Floods | World | PC |
| | 2003 | | XINHUA |
| | Fuzhou, Sept. 23 (XINHUA) -- Nine people were still missing in Yongtai County of east China's Fujian |
| | Province after heavy mountain flooding hit the county late Saturday night, local officials said Tuesday. |
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| | The flood has so far killed at least 10 people, whose bodies have been buried according to local |
| | customs, a spokesman from the county government said. |
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| | Each family of the 10 flood victims has received 5,000 yuan for burial fees and smart money from the |
| | local government, the spokesman said. |
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| | Rescue workers are continuing to search the missing people, according to local officials. |
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| | Rainstorms pelted Songkou and Changqing towns, both in Yongtai county, at about 9:00 p.m. Saturday |
| | night, leading to heavy mountain torrents which affected 1,420 local residents. |
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| | Eighty houses were destroyed or collapsed, and another some 100 were damaged to some extent. A |
| | total of 1,000 hectares of crops have been submerged. |
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| | Primary investigation shows that the economic loss caused by the flooding amounted to approximately |
| | 80 million yuan (about 9.64 million US dollars). |
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