RELOCATION PLAN: The Council of Agriculture's chief yesterday revealed that the fishing body could be moved to Kaohsiung in line with a government initiative
By Chou Fu-mei
Su Jia-chyuan (蘇嘉全), chairman of the Council of Agriculture (COA), yesterday revealed that Kaohsiung's Chienchen Fishing Port (前鎮漁港) could be the new site for the council's Fisheries Agency.

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UNCOMFORTABLE: Words attributed to the Japanese prime minister, where he denied comfort women were coerced, drew the ire of South Korean politicians
South Korean politicians yesterday urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to withdraw and apologize for his "outrageous" remarks questioning the wartime enslavement of tens of thousands of Asian women.

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`OUR OBLIGATION': A State Department official said that the large package of missiles offered Taiwan were defensive and did not violate the US' `One China' policy
By Charles Snyder
The US on Friday rebutted objections by China to the Pentagon's plan to sell hundreds of advanced missiles to Taiwan, saying the sale comports with the US' obligations under the Taiwan Relations Act to sell defensive weapons to Taiwan.

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By Flora Wang
A theme lantern featuring a Taiwanese boar will be lit up in Chiayi County's Taipao City (太保市) tonight, where the annual Taiwan Lantern Festival is being held this year.

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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired Army Secretary Francis Harvey on Friday as the Bush administration scrambled to respond to an outcry over poor treatment for veterans at the Army's top hospital.

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Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has complained that Western countries have failed to properly compensate Libya for scrapping its nuclear arms program and as a result countries like Iran and North Korea would not follow his lead.

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