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Last updated: 2006-01-20

Taiwanese Airline Begins New Year Flights
2006-01-20

A worker loads luggage onto a plane bound for Shanghai at Taiwan's Chiang Kai Shek International Airport January 20, 2006. Hundreds of Taiwanese took off on an airplane on Friday to celebrate the Lunar New Year festival in China, the only time of the year when diplomatic rivals Taipei and Beijing permit non-stop flights. The plane belonging to Taiwan's China Airlines left Taipei shortly after 8 a.m. (0000 GMT) and is due to land in Shanghai in three hours. It returns to Taipei in the afternoon, bringing Taiwanese home for the biggest holiday in the Chinese-speaking world.

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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan allowed students and tour groups to fly direct to China for the first time Friday in the third annual installment of symbolic Chinese New Year flights aimed at warming tense relations with the mainland.... ...
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