FILIBUSTER: Ibrahim Gambari was told that he could meet with Senior General Than Shwe today, while a Norway-based group estimated 6,000 people have been detained
Myanmar's leader stalled a UN envoy for yet another day yesterday, delaying until today his chance to present world demands for an end to the junta's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

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NOT AFTER NUKES: An article in the US magazine said Bush and his advisers had shifted their strategy to making a case for attacking the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
The US administration has shifted strategy and is drawing up plans for possible air strikes against Iran's Revolutionary Guard instead of the country's nuclear sites, the New Yorker magazine reported on Sunday.

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By Jessie Ho
State-run CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, 台灣中油) announced yesterday that it had increased gasoline prices by NT$1.3 per liter and diesel prices by NT$1.4 per liter in response to soaring crude prices.

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Hong Kongers protested the Chinese army's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in a demonstration yesterday marking China's National Day.

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Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton drew cheers from British Conservatives on Sunday, saying that diplomacy had failed to halt Iran's nuclear program and urging Washington to consider military action.

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A burqa-wearing suicide bomber struck at a police checkpost in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 16 people including four policemen, officials said.

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