DERANGED ACTION: The president said that Chiang Pin-kun's visit to China was a foolish move that was out of place and that only serves the KMT
By Huang Tai-lin
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) delegation that has traveled to China to push for cooperation and reconciliation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is "seemingly deranged with regard to space and time," President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) said yesterday.

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DEJA VU: The massive temblor, which was centered near Nias Island off Sumatra, destroyed 30 percent of the buildings in one city, sparking fears of another tsunami
Residents searched through smoldering rubble for survivors on Indonesia's Nias island yesterday and relatives wept over the bodies of the dead after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake hammered the region, triggering a tsunami scare. Death toll estimates ranged from 330 to 2,000.

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By Ko Shu-ling
The special arms procurement bill failed yet again to pass the legislature's Procedure Committee yesterday, the second attempt since the government adjusted the arms budget downward from the original NT$610.8 billion to NT$480 billion.

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A thief recently walked into a University of California, Berkeley office and swiped a computer laptop containing personal information about nearly 100,000 alumni, graduate students and past applicants, highlighting society's vulnerability to identity theft.

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The US State Department renewed its criticism of the human-rights records of Pakistan and China on Monday in a report that followed US decisions to arm Pakistan with jet fighters and to avoid a showdown with China on the way it treats its people.

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