ANNUAL PROTEST: A flotilla of boats from China and Taiwan could be headed for a clash with Japan's patrols
A group of Chinese nationalists from Hong Kong was set to meet with a flotilla of Taiwanese ships to protest Japan's claims over a set of disputed islands yesterday, while the Japanese government has vowed to prevent the demonstrators from making landfall.

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Police in Budapest expelled several hundred protesters early yesterday from a square outside parliament as Hungary commemorated the 50th anniversary of its anti-Soviet uprising.

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The Panamanian government celebrated yesterday after voters backed a US$5.25 billion plan to widen the country's transcontinental canal to allow the world's biggest ships to sail between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

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A senior US State Department official apologized on Sunday night for saying that the US has acted with "arrogance" and "stupidity" in its campaign in Iraq.

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By Shih Hsiu-chuan
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus would stand with the People First Party (PFP) on deferring a review of the long-delayed arms budget, the KMT said in a press release yesterday.

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