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The military yesterday held scheduled anti-landing drills in Pingtung County as China’s military exercises continued in the sea and air around Taiwan.
The Tien Lei live-fire exercises were being conducted at an army range on the county’s coast near Fonggang (楓港) in Fangshan Township (枋山).
The drills, which lasted just under an hour, had long been scheduled for yesterday and tomorrow, said Major General Lou Woei-jye (樓偉傑), spokesman for the Eighth Army Corps.
The 43 Artillery Command and the 333rd Mechanized Infantry Brigade were participating in the counter-amphibious landing exercise in conjunction with other formations and the coast guard, Lou said.
Thirty-eight howitzers were
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Around-the-clock care is needed to sustain the nation’s only liger, blighted by genetic deformities as a living reminder of the tragedy that can result from human greed.
A-piao (阿彪) staggers about his enormous enclosure, his faint tiger stripes glistening in the slanted winter sun before he flops to the ground.
Lazily turning to show onlookers his exposed belly, he exudes the same ease as his distant domesticated cousins, yet something is clearly unusual about this feline.
His left hind leg, rigid and immobile, extends from his side like a crutch as he gazes forward with the face of a lion. Yet this