CORRUPTION: Several other former museum staff were also questioned in the probe into charges of profiteering related to the National Palace Museum's renovation project
Former National Palace Museum director Shih Shou-chien (石守謙) and several other former museum officials and staffers were taken into custody and questioned late on Wednesday, a day after law enforcement officers raided the museum on suspicion of corruption related to the renovation of its main exhibition hall.

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Lebanon's prime minister yesterday vowed to eradicate terrorism as sporadic gunfire rang out through the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp where Islamic militants were holed up after refusing an ultimatum to surrender.

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POWER STRUGGLE: The Taipei City Government and the Ministry of Education's war of words over who did what or did not do what shows no signs of subsiding
By Mo Yan-chih and Max Hirsch
The Taipei City Government fined the Ministry of Education (MOE) NT$10,000 yesterday for replacing its banners on the renamed National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall, and reported Minister of Education Tu Cheng-sheng (杜正勝), the hall's administrative director and a contractor to prosecutors.

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Iran yesterday defied threats of further UN sanctions after the UN nuclear watchdog confirmed its controversial atomic program was expanding, saying the drive would not pause even "for a moment."

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China's securities regulator issued a second public warning within two weeks on risks involved in the country's soaring stock market, state media reported yesterday, while former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warned China's red-hot stock market was heading for a steep correction.

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