‘TRAITOR’: Taichung police charged a student with disturbing public order after security officials found a boxcutter in his pocket. The student’s father apologized
By Rich Chang and Ko Shu-ling
A college student was arrested and charged with violating the Social Order Maintenance Act (社會秩序維護法) yesterday after heckling Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (胡志強).

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By Joyce Huang
The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) yesterday made public new regulations governing cross-strait market access for the banking, securities brokerage and insurance sectors, laying the groundwork for financial institutions on either side of the Taiwan Strait to enter each other’s market.

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HEARING EACH OTHER OUT: Significantly, US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg did not directly mention Taiwan at a meeting of the Atlantic Council
By William Lowther
In his first public comments since returning from important two-day talks in Beijing earlier this month, US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg did not sound overly optimistic about the future of the US-China relationship.

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By Mo Yan-chih
Apartment complexes and buildings with steel bars over the windows, loose cables or advertisements on exterior walls could face fines of up to NT$100,000 starting next year after the Taipei City Government yesterday promulgated new regulations on the appearance of buildings in an attempt to improve the city’s landscape.

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Protesters spilled their own blood at the gates of Thailand’s government headquarters yesterday in a colorful act of political theater designed to propel their fugitive hero back to power.

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