DIPLOMATIC UPROAR: The Presidential Office restated Taiwan's claim to the islands, while the president came under attack for his low-key response to the incident
By Ko Shu-ling, Jenny W. Hsu and Loa Iok-sin

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UNEXPECTED BENEFIT?: News of an agreement to open representative offices in each other's capitals came as a surprise because the topic was not on the official agenda
Taiwan and China agreed yesterday to set up permanent offices in each other’s territories to coordinate ongoing contacts.

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By Flora Wang
Lawmakers passed an amendment to the Statute Governing the Relations Between the Peoples of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (兩岸人民關係條例) yesterday to legalize direct currency exchange between the New Taiwan dollar and the yuan in Taiwan.

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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the US Constitution to challenge their detention in civilian courts.

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CONSTANT ATTACK: US lawmakers said that over the last two years their computers have been hacked by people working from inside China
Two US congressmen, both longtime critics of Beijing’s record on human rights, said computers that had been allegedly hacked by people working from China contained information about political dissidents from around the world. One of the lawmakers said he had been discouraged from disclosing the computer attacks by other US officials.

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