DIRTY TRICK?: Protesters were incensed when the Presidential Office brought the meeting between Ma and Chen forward to 11am to avoid the opposition rally
By Rich Chang, Meggie Lu And Loa Iok-sin
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets close to the Presidential Office in Taipei yesterday to protest against the meeting between President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait Chairman Chen Yunlin (陳雲林), before later moving on to the Grand Hotel where they continued the protests through the evening.

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By Ko Shu-ling
The much anticipated meeting between President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait Chairman Chen Yunlin (陳雲林) turned out to be an anti-climax when Chen avoided addressing Ma using his official title during the meeting yesterday. The meeting was pushed forward from 4:30pm to 11am at the last minute to preempt a large-scale protest organized by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).

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CHALLENGES: US president-elect Barack Obama inherits a bleak global situation, with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the worst economic recession for 80 years
US president-elect Barack Obama barely had time to savor his victory before he began filling out his new administration and getting a sobering look at some of the daunting problems he will inherit when he takes office in just 10 weeks.

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