On December 9th the biggest cities, Taipei and Kaohsiung, will conduct mayoral elections.

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Then Zhu said he would accept Hsieh's reciprocal invitation to go to Kaohsiung.

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Expected in Kaohsiung this month for an environmental conference is Yang Xiaoming, deputy secretary of China's semi-official body handling bilateral talks.

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On July 5, Xiamen Mayor Zhu Yayan invited his Kaohsiung counterpart Frank Hsieh (who happens to be the DPP's incoming chairman) for a visit.

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On Wednesday June 25th, the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen said it had overtaken Kaohsiung in Taiwan to become the world's fifth-largest container port.

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And Frank Hsieh, the opposition mayor of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's second-largest city, has already jumped the gun and launched a city lottery to rival the state one.

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The "Planet in Peril" crew traveled with Knights to Taiwan's southern port city of Kaohsiung, which is considered one of the world's main hubs for shark fins.

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The Chinese city of Shanghai, which last year overtook Kaohsiung as the world's fourth-largest port (after Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea's Pusan), saw traffic rise by an almost-as-impressive 35.6%.

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Another rally swamped Kaohsiung in the south.

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They seem to like Chen's declaration that Taipei may support Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games. (Lee's government had opposed China's bid for this year's Games.) And on July 3, Xiamen Mayor Zhu Yayan invited his Kaohsiung counterpart, Frank Hsieh Chang-ting, to visit his city on the coast of Fujian province, opposite Taiwan.

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