CONTINUED GROWTH: Regardless of the result of the presidential election later this month, analysts are confident that the nation's bourses will continue to rise
By Jessie Ho
Stocks finally broke the 7,000-point barrier to close at their highest level in three-and-a-half-years yesterday, climbing on hopes of an improving economic situation no matter who wins the March 20 presidential election, analysts said.

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By Charles Snyder
Representatives from seven organizations representing Taiwanese-Americans presented around 9,000 letters to US President George W. Bush Wednesday urging him to support the March 20 referendum, in return receiving what one member of the delegation felt was a sense of "tacit support" for the referendum.

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By Jewel Huang
One day after the pan-blue camp announced it would organize a million person rally on March 13, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan (連戰) yesterday denied the rally was aimed at countering the pan-green camp's momentum in the wake of the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally.

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Haiti's rebel leader said on Wednesday he was disarming his forces and retreating from the streets of Port-au-Prince, where gunfights erupted three days after the president was driven into exile.

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Five Iraqi police were injured in separate attacks yesterday in northern Iraq as Shiite pilgrims continued to bury people killed in simultaneous bombings of holy shrines in Baghdad and Kerbala.

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