PROTEST: The DPP caucus said the proposal titled `Taiwanese People's Demand to Enter the UN' was an attempt to get voters to boycott the March 22 referendums
By Flora Wang
All eight legislative standing committees yesterday simultaneously approved a statement proposed by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to convey the legislature's attitude toward bids for membership in the UN and other important international organizations.

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By Loa Iok-sin
None of the candidates in the March 22 election is a citizen of the US or Japan, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said yesterday afternoon.

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PROTEST: About 100 exiles left Dharamsala yesterday on a march to Tibet, while another group lit a torch outside the home of the Olympic Games in Greece
The Dalai Lama attacked China's human rights record yesterday, accusing it of "unimaginable and gross violations" in his Himalayan homeland.

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China will not consider changing its one-child policy for at least another decade, the country's top family planning official said in an interview published yesterday.

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Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi took the oath of office for a new five-year term yesterday, rejecting calls to resign after unprecedented electoral setbacks wiped out the ruling coalition's two-thirds majority and shook the political landscape and the stock market.

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Taiwanese director Ang Lee (李安) has criticized a reported Chinese media ban on his protege, actress Tang Wei (湯唯), who became a huge star with the leading role in his award-winning spy thriller Lust, Caution.

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