News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 46

TAIPEI, Dic 15 (IPS) - Inching his way through one of Taipei's frequent traffic jams, taxi driver Lin Yi-chi switches on the radio and listens intently to the latest twists and turns in Taiwanese politics as seen by the island's most popular radio station.

HONG KONG, Dic 15 (IPS) - Jonathan Morgan, Andrew McGrenra and Paul Rait are just about to begin their careers as police officers in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, but their arrival here this week marks the end of another colonial tradition.

BANGKOK, Dic 15 (IPS) - Most countries in the Asia-Pacific have made substantial progress in ensuring the rights of children, but the region's young continue to pay a high price for the Asia- Pacific's economic success.

TEHRI GARHWAL, INDIA, Dic 15 (IPS) - A SMUDGY PROTEST BANNER FLAPS IN THE CHILLY WINTER BREEZE FROM THE DISTANT HIMALAYAS AS A CROWD OF LOCALS GATHER BELOW IN A SMALL TOWN IN THIS NORTH INDIAN HILL DISTRICT.

HELSINKI, Dic 15 (IPS) - The fate of around one million 'non- citizens' living in the now independent Baltic republics of Estonia and Latvia remains uncertain after three days of talks at a special workshop on migration issues which ended here Thursday.

LAGOS, Dic 15 (IPS) - IN NIGERIA'S COMMERCIAL CAPITAL WOMEN ARE USING STEROIDS AND BLEACHING CREAMS TO MEET NEW FASHION TRENDS WHERE BEING PLUMP AND LIGHT-SKINNED IS NOW "EN VOGUE".

KHARTOUM, Dic 15 (IPS) - THE U.N. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP) RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE HERE THURSDAY DISCLOSED THE UNITED NATIONS'S PLAN TO APPEAL TO DONORS TO SUPPORT SUDAN'S DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES.

ROME, Dic 14 (IPS) - A conspiracy of the scale and intensity of a "true coup d'etat" has been launched against the Italian government, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Wednesday.

JAMALPUR, BANGLADESH, Dic 14 (IPS) - MALEKA, 24, WIFE OF A WEALTHY LAND OWNER OF CHARNAGAR VILLAGE IN JAMALPUR DISTRICT, SOME 190 KMS NORTH OF THE CAPITAL DHAKA, WAS DISTRAUGHT AFTER THE DELIVERY OF HER SECOND STILL-BORN CHILD.

SAN SALVADOR, Dic 14 (IPS) - More than 1,000 Salvadoran farmers and former combatants are marching to the capital to demand the land grants promised them in the peace accords that ended the nation's 12-year civil war in January 1992.