UNCONVENTIONAL: Although a premier is not legally required to resign when a new legislature is elected, all former premiers have ended up following this convention
By Shih Hsiu-chuan
Premier Chang Chun-hsiung (張俊雄) will remain in office as President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) considers rejecting the resignation of Chang's Cabinet, paving the way for the continuation of its duties until May 20, when a new president is to be inaugurated, Presidential Office spokesman David Lee (李南陽) said yesterday.

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Leading South African gold, diamond and platinum mines stopped production on Friday because of a lack of power as the government announced emergency steps to deal with outages causing chaos and misery and threatening economic growth.

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ON THE MOVE: The UN said that at least 700,000 Gazans have entered Egypt to stock up on supplies since the breach of a border wall on Tuesday
Egypt said yesterday it would keep allowing Palestinians to cross the breached border and help them stock up on supplies on the fourth day of unfettered access from the Gaza Strip, but tried to limit the flow of people across the entire Sinai Peninsula.

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Police have taken into custody the trader blamed for a 4.9 billion euros (US$7 billion) fraud at French bank Societe Generale, a judicial source said yesterday.

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Rising Taiwanese tennis star Yang Tsung-hua (楊宗樺) yesterday lost in the final of the boys' singles competition at the Australian Open to Bernard Tomic of Australia. Fifth seed Tomic beat the 16-year-old 10th seed Yang in three sets, 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-0.

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