TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan and China launched direct daily passenger flights, new shipping routes and postal links on Monday for the first time since 1949 in a further thaw of once icy relations between the two political rivals. Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou (C) and officials attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony in front of a cargo ship bound for China at a port in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung December 15, 2008. (REUTERS/Stringer) The new links underscore how quickly ties have warmed under...
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