WHAT'S IN A NAME? : The nation is trying to join the body for the 11th time, and though the chances of success are virtually nil, the government wants to reframe the debate
By Ko Shu-ling and Jewel Huang
President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) has sent a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) requesting to join the international body as a full member under the name "Taiwan," officials said yesterday.

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INSIDE JOB? : The gadget maker's headquarters were searched by Banciao prosecutors on suspicion that company bosses manipulated share prices
By Lisa Wang
Banciao prosecutors yesterday raided Inventec Appliances Corp (英華達), a local handset maker that also produces iPod music players for Apple Inc, looking for evidence to support charges of alleged insider trading.

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Stretched thin by four years of war, the US Army is adding three months to the standard yearlong tour for all active-duty soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, an extraordinary step aimed at maintaining the troop buildup in Baghdad.

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A bomb rocked the Iraqi parliament building in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone yesterday, killing at least two lawmakers in a stunning security breach in the third month of a US-Iraqi crackdown on violence in the capital, officials said.

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A high-ranking Chinese foreign ministry official says any attempt to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics will fail, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.

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The Democratic-led US Senate voted on Wednesday to lift a key restriction imposed by US President George W. Bush on the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

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