TAIPEI (Reuters) - It wasn't the Olympic event that many had hoped for, but Taiwan's independence-leaning government on Wednesday served up its own version of the famous torch relay to highlight its drive to rejoin the United Nations.
Several thousand people turned out for the relay's launch in front of the presidential office, where the first runner was President Chen Shui-bian, whose Democratic Progressive Party favours development of a Taiwan identify separate from China.
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