UNSATISFIED: Local media speculated that FSC Chairman Gordon Chen offered his resignation under pressure and that more Cabinet members are to be replaced
By Mo Yan-chih
Premier Liu Chao-shiuan (劉兆玄) said yesterday that he and President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) were studying the possibility of reshuffling the Cabinet. Details will be announced “at an appropriate time” when a decision is made, he said.

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‘INDIA’S 9/11’: Survivors have given terrifying accounts of the carnage in the hotels, as many said they hid in the dark for hours, barricaded in rooms or hiding under beds
Commandos yesterday killed the last remaining gunmen in Mumbai’s Taj hotel to end a devastating attack by Islamic militants on India’s financial capital that left 195 dead, including 26 foreigners.

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Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said on Friday he hopes to visit Taiwan next year, in what would be his first visit in seven years and an apparent reversal of a policy of avoiding the nation for fear of angering China.

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By Jimmy Chuang
In the latest development in a graft scandal implicating her family, former first lady Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍) yesterday said that she had not stashed NT$740 million (US$22 million) in a local firm.

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Police built a massive cordon around anti-government protesters occupying Thailand’s main airport yesterday, raising fears of an imminent confrontation in a standoff that has disrupted the country’s economy and the travel industry worldwide.

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