CLARIFYING THE CLARIFICATION: A ministry official said reports that Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi had told George W. Bush there had been `a misunderstanding' were wrong
The saga of a US aircraft carrier being denied entry to Hong Kong at Thanksgiving took a bizarre turn yesterday when China denied saying the whole affair had been a misunderstanding.

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BOTCHED ATTEMPT: More than a dozen soldiers on trial for a failed 2003 mutiny stormed out of a courthouse and tried to launch another revolt
Troops and SWAT teams stormed a five-star hotel yesterday that dissident military officers took over after walking out of their coup trial and demanding that Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo resign.

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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf embarked on a five-year term as a civilian president yesterday, a day after ceding the powerful post of army chief -- the basis of his rule for the past eight years.

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A "cyber Cold War" is developing as international Web espionage and cyber-attacks become the biggest threats to Internet security, a new report says.

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By Jimmy Chuang
Nantou prosecutors yesterday indicted Vice Minister of Economic Affairs Hou Ho-shong (侯和雄) on corruption charges.

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