China returns ‘Taiwan for UN’ stamped mail to senders

CHINA, infuriated at Taiwan's repeated bids to join the United Nations, sends back all mail arriving from the self-ruled island stamped with a UN slogan postmark, a government official said in Beijing yesterday. 

China has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan, recognised by just a handful of countries across the world, since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 and has blocked its successive bids to join the United Nations as a separate country.