TAKING A STAND: The former president likened the ruling party's move to Nazism and fascism, adding his voice to the chorus of disapproval from opposition figures
By Shih Hsiu-chuan, Flora Wang and Mo Yan-chih
Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) has criticized the government's controversial decision to drop "China" from the names of state enterprises, warning the move could endanger peace.

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Which came first: the chicken, the egg or the North Korea nuclear talks?

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By Loa Iok-sin
Legendary Taiwanese puppet master Huang Hai-tai (黃海岱), who began his long career in puppetry in the 1920s when the country was a Japanese colony, died yesterday of heart failure. He was 107.

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Sophisticated Iranian-built bombs smuggled into Iraq have killed at least 170 US and allied soldiers since June 2004 and wounded 620 more, senior US defense officials said yesterday.

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`ILLEGITIMATE': The Russian president took aim at the Bush administration, saying the US was stoking a new nuclear arms race by overstepping its borders
In a speech on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed US policy for inciting other countries to seek nuclear weapons to defend themselves from an "almost uncontained use of military force" -- a stinging attack that underscored growing tensions between Washington and Moscow.

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