PROVOCATION: Former president Chen Shui-bian said the ARATS deputy was at fault for visiting just before a big DPP rally — and visiting Chen’s hometown of Tainan
By Ko Shu-ling And Flora Wang
Amid heavy police protection and sporadic protests, Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Vice Chairman Zhang Mingqing (張銘清) yesterday tearfully left for home ahead of schedule after he was jostled and jeered by pro-localization activists and politicians on Tuesday.

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LIFT-OFF: With the successful launch, India is hoping the mission will boost its space program into the same league as regional powerhouses Japan and China
India successfully launched its first lunar mission yesterday, marking a major boost for the country’s space program and a new step in the fast-developing Asian space race.

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EU lawmakers have joined US civil liberty campaigners in criticizing a new scanner technology that allows airport security staff to see through passengers’ clothes, calling it a virtual strip search that should only be used as a last resort.

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More than 65 percent of Taiwanese are unhappy with the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), a survey released by Global Views monthly magazine showed yesterday.

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China must modernize its food safety system, the UN said yesterday, arguing that an outdated and disjointed approach may have worsened a crisis over contaminated milk that killed four babies.

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