REBUFFED: The legislative speaker said the KMT had damaged his relationship with Ma Ying-jeou by spreading rumors that he had been making deals with the party chairman
By Mo Yan-chih
Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) ended months of speculation yesterday when he turned down Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) invitation to be his running mate.

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DEFIANCE: Thai Rak Thai party leaders decried the court ruling barring them from politics for the next five years and said that they would appeal to the prime minister
More than 1,000 die-hard supporters of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday protested a stunning court ruling that banned his party and barred its entire leadership from politics for five years, saying the military-appointed tribunal lacked legitimacy.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs advised Taiwanese intending to visit Bangkok over the next few days to be alert because of the possibility of political unrest there.

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A Saudi prisoner was found dead in his cell at Guantanamo Bay after apparently taking his own life, the US military said, a possible fourth suicide at the US detention camp that prisoner rights advocates blamed on the US government.

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The chief suspect in the murder of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko said yesterday the British secret services were behind the killing and had also tried to recruit him to spy against Moscow.

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The UN Security Council voted to unilaterally establish an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, sending a message that there will be no impunity for political murders.

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