NOT FAIR? : Similarities in the Cabinet's and the DPP's UN campaigns prompted a PFP legislator to accuse the DPP of using public funds for campaign activities.
By Flora Wang and Ko Shu-ling
The People First Party (PFP) caucus yesterday filed a lawsuit against Premier Chang Chun-hsiung (張俊雄) and two other Cabinet officials, saying that the Cabinet's UN campaign violated the Referendum Law (公投法) and Election and Recall Law of Civil Servants (公務人員選舉罷免法).

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MILITARY ACTION: The Turkish parliament yesterday began debating a government motion on a possible operation in Iraq to pursue separatist Kurdish rebels
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said yesterday he would support a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels, as the parliament in Ankara met to vote for military action.

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By Hsu Shao-hsuan
A small number of the newly developed Hsiung Feng II-E cruise missiles have already been deployed around the nation, and up to 100 of the missiles will be manufactured within the next eight years, military sources said.

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London's Financial Times apologized yesterday to Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (李顯龍) and his father, Lee Kuan Yew (李光耀), after the paper said it implied the prime minister got his position with the elder Lee's help.

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Thousands of villagers defied warnings of a major eruption at one of Indonesia's deadliest volcanos, leaving refugee centers yesterday and returning to its slopes to tend to crops and animals.

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Myanmar's ruling junta yesterday blamed Buddhist monks for last month's violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests, as it admitted nearly 3,000 people had been detained over the rallies.

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