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Tainan's role in the development of Taiwan's history are sufficient to allow it an upgrade Tainan City and County will merge and be upgraded to a higher municipal status despite the original disagreements within the review panel last week, the Cabinet announced yesterday. A 15-hour marathon session by a special review board last Tuesday unanimously approved an upgrade for Taipei County and mergers and upgrades for Taichung City and County and Kaohsiung City and County, but was divided on Tainan. A total of eight panelists approved of the Tainan merger, while six opposed it and the others failed to have a clear opinion, Interior Minister Liao Liou-yi said yesterday. The panel turned down requests from the counties of Taoyuan and Changhua for separate upgrades and from the counties of Yunlin and Chiayi for a merger and upgrade.... [read full story]
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