SPIES LIKE US? : A DPP legislator said China should stop accusing others given that states such as the US had complained about the activities of Chinese hackers
A Ministry of National Defense official yesterday denied knowledge of an alleged Taiwanese spy who had reportedly hacked into sensitive government computer systems in China.

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REPRESSIVE REGIME: A human rights watchdog reported that military and civilian recruiters were turning to boys as young as 10 to fill the army's ranks
Buddhist monks in Myanmar staged a protest march yesterday -- their first since soldiers crushed a pro-democracy uprising a month ago and ahead of a visit by UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari.

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By Ko Shu-ling
Oil prices are almost certain to increase at midnight tonight amid opposition from Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (謝長廷).

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Pakistani police said yesterday that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and the Taliban were likely linked to a suicide attack near President Pervez Musharraf's army office that killed seven people.

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By Debby Wu
The Romanization of Mandarin place names will be standardized by the end of this year, an official said yesterday, after years of confusion stemming from multiple spellings.

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At least eight people were killed and 50 were injured yesterday in an explosion on a bus in the Russian city of Togliatti. Authorities said they were treating the suspected bombing as a terrorist act.

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