NOT ON THE AGENDA: John Feng conceded that he met with AIT officials, but said it was to discuss the election, not to cancel a US residency permit for the KMT candidate
By Shih Hsiu-chuan and Mo Yan-chih
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's (謝長廷) campaign team yesterday said that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) sent an aide, former diplomat John Feng (馮寄台), to the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) on Thursday to sort out the matter of his green card.

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LOSING CONTROL? : NATO's top official rebutted a US intelligence assessment that the Afghan government controls just 30 percent of the country's population
Despite seven years of efforts to stamp out the opium crops funding Taliban militants through the heroin trade, more Afghans than ever are growing the poppies, a US government report said on Friday.

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Israeli forces killed 31 Palestinians, about half of them civilians, in the Gaza Strip yesterday in intense fighting that renewed threats of a broader Israeli offensive and put peace talks at risk.

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Australia said yesterday it hoped to close a loophole in International Whaling Commission (IWC) rules that allows Japan to conduct whaling as long as it is carried out for scientific research.

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Police searched for clues yesterday after a suicide attack at a police officer's funeral killed more than 40 people in volatile northwestern Pakistan, where troops are fighting pro-Taliban militants.

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