New Taiwan stamp does not include China

The Taiwan Postal Service yesterday released the first official stamp declaring the state as "Taiwan," without the customary "Republic of China" title.

Thousands of Tawiwanese independents supported the the long awaited new stamp, which marked one of the first moves by the government to reassert the island's identity and unaffiliation with mainland China.

The "name-retification campaign" also included the name change of the state enterprises. The government postal company was recently renamed "Taiwan Post Co" and other public transport agencies have done the same, dropping all reference to mainland China.