2. Taiwan Lantern Festival gets early start in Chiayi 3. Gov't to provide up to NT$30 billion in loans for tourism sector 4. KMT to invite high-level Chinese delegation to visit Taiwan 5. Number of H1N1 patients on the rise: CDC 6. Taiwan editorial abstracts 7. Taiwan develops world's leading personal Internet device 8. U.S. dollar down on Taipei FOREX 9. KMT hopes cross-strait exchanges will get back on track 10. Share prices close higher on local bourse 11. Chinese tourist arrivals expected to plunge next week 12. Holy See cardinal visits Taiwan to comfort typhoon victims 17. European trade group survey shows Taipei good place to live 18. Credit Suisse revises Taiwan's economic projections upward 19. Taiwan headline news 20. Tainan-Kaohsiung water channeling project to remain suspended 21. Dalai Lama wraps up Taiwan visit 22. Tropical storm forms 23. Foreign exchange rates 24. U.S. dollar up in early Taipei trading 