IN OR OUT? : A proposed move to drop the so-called '1992 consesus' and unification guilelines from the KMT's cross-strait policy had party officials talking at cross purposes
By Mo Yan-chih and Ko Shu-ling
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday dismissed concerns that the party has abandoned the Guidelines for National Unification and the so-called "1992 consensus" by dropping them from its mission statement. He vowed to stick to the policies if elected next March.

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Japan ordered its naval ships to withdraw from a refueling mission in support of US-led operations in Afghanistan yesterday as a political deadlock kept the government from meeting a deadline to extend the activities.

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By Jessie Ho
Domestic retail gasoline prices reached an all-time high yesterday, after state-run CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, 台灣中油) announced it would raise wholesale gasoline and diesel prices by NT$0.9 per liter.

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Turkey stepped up pressure yesterday on northern Iraq, imposing economic sanctions over the safe haven Kurdish rebels enjoy in the region, as the US said it was supplying Ankara with intelligence on the separatists' positions.

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Taliban rebels have overrun a district center in western Afghanistan as fighting took place in a nearby area captured earlier this week, a provincial official said yesterday.

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POLICE REPORT: Credit card and bank card fraud is soaring, while murder and kidnapping are down. Meanwhile, an anti-terror drill was held in Shanghai
Economic crimes in China are rising fast, led by credit card fraud and cases of fake or shoddy goods, although violent crime generally continues to fall, a police spokesman said yesterday.

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