21.   If Taipei is unwilling to talk to mainland officials, some in Taiwan fear that Washington will make concessions to China, Yang said.

22.   Li Lip-king, spokeswoman for the Owners of Chinese Problematic Association, said they had yet to receive compensation despite their repeated visits to mainland officials.

23.   Lin said the Taiwanese delegation will not hold talks with mainland Chinese officials on how to ease tensions between Taiwan and China.

24.   Mainland officials could not be reached late on Tuesday to elaborate on the ban.

25.   MAINLAND officials say a network should be set up along the Chinese coast to monitor the spread of red tide.

26.   Mainland officials suspect that Taipei helps to fund dissidents in an effort to undermine communist rule in China.

27.   Mainland Chinese officials studiously ignore protesters when they visit Hong Kong.

28.   MAINLAND officials on Tuesday placed an indefinite ban on live chicken exports to Hong Kong from early on Wednesday.

29.   Mainland officials repeated earlier statements on Wednesday that they had not discovered any cases of bird flu in humans.

30.   Meanwhile, the government agency also approved an application to live in Taiwan by a former mainland Chinese official deemed to face imminent danger in China.