STRONG WORDS: KMT caucus whip Tseng Yung-chuan said any disputes or confusion during next year's polls would be the fault of the Executive Yuan, the DPP and the CEC
By Mo Yan-chih and Shih Hsiu-chuan
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday announced that it had accepted the Central Election Commission's (CEC) compromise system which allows voters to follow a two-step voting procedure as long as tables and ballot boxes in polling stations are placed in accordance with the one-step voting format.

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Pakistan indicated yesterday it would delay next month's elections because of the turmoil caused by the death of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, as a bitter dispute erupted over how the opposition leader was killed.

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Beijing may allow Hong Kong to directly elect its leader by 2017 and all its lawmakers by 2020, the territory's chief executive said yesterday, sparking protests by democracy activists who sought an earlier date.

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PRISONER NO MORE: On his release from an Adelaide jail, David Hicks' father, Terry, said his son did not need to apologize and had `done his time'
Former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks walked free from an Australian jail after completing a sentence for supporting terrorism yesterday, vowing not to let down those who got him home.

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Nepal's parliament voted in favor of abolishing the centuries-old monarchy and turning the Himalayan nation into a republic.

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