1.   China is pursuing benign enmeshment through calls for more people-to-people exchanges, increased Taiwanese investment on the mainland, and direct air and shipping links.

2.   China has launched a new attack on Lee while reports indicate it is ready to approve direct shipping links between Taiwan and China.

3.   Direct shipping links have also begun with the Taiwan islands of Quemoy and Matsu, which lie just off the mainland coast.

4.   Marine shares also gained on expectations that direct shipping links between Taiwan and China will soon be established.

5.   Munro hopes to meet with the North Korean ambassador to the United Nations soon to offer further technical assistance and food aid shipping links.

6.   Shippers climbed on a report in the Economic Daily News that the Cabinet is drafting plans to allow direct shipping links between Taiwan and China within a year.

7.   Shipping companies, which are waiting for Beijing to approve opening direct shipping links between Taiwan and China, climbed.

8.   Yet the more pressing issue is the future of shipping links between Taiwan and Hong Kong, shipping industry executives said.

9.   A delegation of Chinese maritime officials arrived in Taiwan Tuesday to push for direct shipping links between this island and the Chinese mainland.

10.   Ambitious projects will strengthen the road, rail, air and shipping links between Hong Kong and neighboring Guangdong Province.