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Dong Shiang-mei, the woman who claimed she had a daughter with the late
Strait Exchange Foundation CEO Koo Cheng-fu had done a complete
turnabout in court and conceded that the daughter is not Koo’s.
Dong at one point went down on her knees saying she would plead
guilty if she could be granted probation.
Taiwan’s allies at the UN are accusing China of expanding its arsenal
of weapons and missiles aimed at the island in readiness for an invasion
and urged the UN to step in and promote a peaceful dialogue between the
two parties.
Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has arrived in
Britain. Thaksin was deposed in a bloodless army-led coup Tuesday while
he was attending a session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
For decades, Guatemalan prisons have been held up as examples
of had practice, which include jailbreaks, rampant corruption and massive overcrowding. In effect, jail gang leaders have been running the prisons
with impunity.
A new study shows the effects of global warming are getting
worse. The AP’s Ed Donahue has this report. Researchers say the earth
has been warming at a rate of about a third of a degree Fahrenheit
per decade over the past thirty years. (AP’s Associated Press)
The continuing crisis between Russia and Georgia shows mp sign
of abating despite the release of four Russian army officers arrested in
Georgia on espionage charges. (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia,
Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan
, Kyrgyzstan)
The head of the United Nations Atomic Agency, the IAEA has
warned that as many as 30 countries could have the capacity to develop
nuclear weapons if controls aren’t tightened further. (Uranium)
A suicide bomber has attacked the military convoy in Sri Lanka
killing at least 103 people; most of them are sailors in the navy.
(Patriot, Tamil Tigers.)
Human rights ombudsman from more than 65 countries are a meeting in Bolivia’s largest city, La Paz, to discuss ways of protecting the
rights of migrants around the world by setting up international human
rights network.
A voluntary recall of 340000laptop batteries made by Sony
Corporation, part of a voluntary global replacement program was
officially announced in the United States. (Compulsory)
The government in Britain is pressing for internationally
agreed standards to regulate online gambling at a conference of 30
countries it’s hosting today. It says it wants measures to prevent
children and vulnerable people from getting involved, but not a full
ban on online gambling, as is the case in the United States.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Taipei, the
capital of Taiwan, in a call for President Chen Shui-bian to step
down. The protest follows a decision, by state prosecutors to charge
president’s wife and the presidential aides with corruption and
perjury in connection with the misappropriation of nearly half a
million dollars State Fund. (Sweatshirt)
Almost two-third of Taiwanese teenagers say they want to learn
more about money management, but there’s no such instruction on schools. A survey done by City group has found while nearly 64 percent of
Taiwan’s teens want to learn more about how to manage money, only
3 percent receive help from schoolteachers and professors. National
Taiwan University professor Joyce Fang says the survey shows an
education program in financial literacy is much needed.
China and India have agreed to step up economic and diplomatic
cooperation significantly at talks in Delhi leaders of the two countries
set a target of doubling bilateral trade by 2010.
Taiwan police busted a mechanic working for China Airlines today on
suspicion of helping a drug smuggling syndicate import heroin into Taiwan.
The Canadian parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of recognizing
the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec as a nation within
the United Canada.
Senior nuclear negotiators from United States and North Korea are holding
direct talks in Beijing. The bilateral discussions between Christopher Hill
and Kim Kye-gwan are part of efforts to restart the stalled international
negotiations aimed at getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear programs.
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