ACCUSED: The office of former president Chen Shui-bian dismissed a magazine article that claimed he had received kickbacks from the head of the Far Eastern Group
By Lisa Wang
Far Eastern Group (遠東集團) chairman Douglas Hsu (徐旭東) yesterday said the company did not attempt to bribe members of ex-president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) family to gain full control of a Chinese subsidiary of Pacific Sogo Department Store (太平洋崇光百貨).

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CENTER STAGE: The floor of the Democratic Party convention in Denver became a sea of white `Hillary’ signs as she strode to the podium to speak
Hillary Rodham Clinton made an emphatic plea for Democrats to unite behind the presidential candidacy of Senator Barack Obama, exhorting her supporters to back her one-time rival because victory over Republican Senator John McCain “is a fight for the future and a fight we must win together.”

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By Jenny W. Hsu
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday said it was “not too surprised” that China has struck up its usual tune in objecting to Taiwan’s bid for UN participation.

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Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej ordered thousands of riot police to move an anti-government crowd occupying his office compound, his spokesman said yesterday.

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Sixty children were killed in air strikes by US-led coalition warplanes in western Afghanistan last week, a UN investigation has found. UN investigators said they had discovered “convincing evidence” that a total of 90 Afghan civilians died in the incident.

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