OUT IN THE OPEN: Chan Chun-po said five categories of documents related to the ‘state affairs fund’ would be declassified, including receipts and budget books
By Ko Shu-ling
The Presidential Office yesterday decided to declassify documents concerning former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) “state affairs fund,” saying they should not have been classified in the first place.

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The Olympic flame approached the final destination of its long and sometimes contentious global tour yesterday, greeted by rapturous crowds, tight security and two small protests in the Chinese capital.

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French prosecutors said yesterday that they had called for the Lafayette case, France’s biggest graft probe in 50 years, to be dismissed without trial after repeatedly being refused defense files on a 1991 warships deal with Taiwan.

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By Shih Hsiu-chuan and Joyce Huang
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) chairman Terry Gou (郭台銘) yesterday said he would expand domestic investment because he has confidence in government policy, but suggested that local government chiefs propose more incentives for businesses.

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LOOKING TO THE FUTURE: The US president will say that change in China will eventually arrive on its own terms and in keeping with its own traditions
The US opposes China’s detention of dissidents and other activists, US President George W. Bush will say today in a pointed message on human rights on the eve of the Beijing Olympics.

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