TSAI TOP: The former vice premier beat Koo Kwang-ming by 25,000 votes in an election in which Chai Trong-rong — who had earlier withdrawn — still received 6,530 votes
By Loa Iok-sin
Former vice premier Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) took nearly 60 percent of the votes in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairperson race yesterday to become the party's first chairwoman.

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Rescue workers pulled two more survivors out of the rubble yesterday, six days after China's powerful earthquake, but admitted hopes of more such miracles are almost extinguished.

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At the start of his Middle East trip, US President George W. Bush gave Israel glowing praise. As it ended yesterday, the president gave the Arab world a stern lecture: Isolate state sponsors of terror and give citizens more freedoms.

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ANIMATED ACTION: The moon-faced cartoon cat will follow in the footsteps of robo-cat Doraemon, who was appointed as a charm ambassador in March
Japan will today appoint the mouthless feline cartoon character Hello Kitty as a goodwill tourism ambassador in China and Hong Kong, Kyodo news agency has reported.

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The UN's top disaster official headed yesterday to Myanmar, where the government is under mounting pressure to accept a full-scale relief operation for desperate cyclone survivors in need of immediate aid.

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