The Taipei Times (via AsiaMedia) reports that the China Daily has appealed General Information Office's recovation of its publication license. The GIO felt that the paper was part of a "united front tactic" against the island:
The newspaper's agent, CF Books Co, received permission from the GIO on July 1 last year to introduce the Hong Kong edition to Taiwan for a year, and sent an average of 1,000 newspapers free of charge to colleges, academic institutions, local officials and government institutions. The permission was revoked by the commission on May 19 after a review.
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Among the reasons used to revoke the permission was that reports continually referred to President Ma Ying-jeou as "Taiwan leader," put in brackets the terminologies representing Taiwan's sovereignty, place news about Taiwan and Hong Kong on the same page, and its weather information showed Taiwan was part of China, Cheng said.
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Jul 02 2009, 07:55 PM
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