1.   The flights are a product of a revised U.S.-Japan air pact hammered out last winter after years of inertia.

2.   Cambodia has approached Taiwan about establishing air links after it reneged on an air pact signed a year ago to avoid angering China, an official said Wednesday.

3.   Early this year, Taiwan and Russia signed an air pact and their airlines plan to open flights between Taipei and Moscow soon.

4.   Early on the Taiwanese anticipated difficulties in working out a new air pact with Hong Kong.

5.   Last December, Taiwan and Hong Kong agreed on a five-year air pact that will permit flights between Taiwan and China via Hong Kong.

6.   The current air pact expires on Sunday.

7.   The government is sympathetic to Tan, and plans to shortly start renegotiating air pacts with several Asian carriers.

8.   The two leaders witnessed the signing of an air services pact formalizing an initial agreement allowing direct commercial flights between the two countries.

9.   They will inaugurate the routes after Taiwan formally signs new air pacts with Hong Kong and Macao, possibly early next year, the Civil Aeronautics Administration said.

10.   Transport Minister Yoshiyuki Kamei earlier Tuesday signed a final air cargo pact that had been reached last month.