TAICHUNG (Taiwan) (AFP): Hundreds of angry protesters threw shoes at riot police Sunday as Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang party held a congress to call for unity as public discontent grows with the government.
The demonstrators - some of them jobless after factory shutdowns and others independence activists and supporters of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party - vented their anger at President Ma Ying-jeou, who is also the Kuomintang chairman.
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