On the first weekly news update of 2014 we tell you about the Dapu land abuse victims’ day in court, medical professionals getting a break, the DPP’s dilemma over dropping its Taiwan independence charter, a new multilingual news service in Taiwan and the fate of the giant rubber duckie in Keelung.

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