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20th November 2007
Taiwan to host two baseball qualifying events
Taiwan will be hosting two qualifying events for the Beijing Olympics.
“We will hold the Asian Olympics Qualifiers and another qualifying game to select three more teams which will join the Beijing Olympics with wild card,” Lin Tsung-cheng, seretary-general of Taiwan’s baseball association said.
The first event will be held from December 1-3. Taiwan, Japan and South Korea and the winner of a competition between Pakistan, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Thailand will compete.
The Netherlands, United States and Cuba have already qualified for the event. The second event will be held in March 2008 between seven countries for three additional wildcard spots.
Read more: Taiwan to host two Olympic qualifying baseball games
9th September 2007
Torch route overcomes Taiwan political concerns
Taiwan has accepted the Beijing Organizing Committee’s torch route through Taiwan. The route was initially rejected not because of the path not because of the direction, but the way that Beijing said that Taiwan was the first “domestic” stopover for the torch.
China views Taiwan as a state of its country, while Taiwan generally see itself as an independent state.
“The two sides are only one step away from signing an agreement [on the torch route], but that step may be one step too far if side issues are raised,” Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairman Chen Ming-tong said.
Read more: Olympic torch relay route `acceptable,’ Premier Chang says