RULES: To address concerns over potential problems caused by Chinese investment in the stock market, the FSC said it would impose some restrictions on companies
By Shih Hsiu-chuan and Joyce Huang
The government yesterday opened the stock and futures markets to Qualified Domestic Institutional Investors (QDII) from China, approving investment of up to 3 percent of a QDII’s net worth or a maximum of NT$7.2 billion (US$214.56 million).

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By Jimmy Chuang
The Taipei District Court yesterday sentenced former Bureau of Investigation director-general Yeh Sheng-mao (葉盛茂) to 10 years in prison for withholding information related to the former first family’s alleged money laundering activities and a separate charge of leaking confidential information.

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By Shih Hsiu-chuan
The government yesterday answered a long-standing call by activists to scrap police powers to grant or deny protest permits, but offered the police instead new powers to bar or alter demonstration plans in certain cases.

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A raid on a major al-Qaeda hideout north of Baghdad uncovered evidence of a network of child suicide bombers who have been coerced into launching attacks across Iraq.

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China sent another strong warning to France yesterday, hinting that a planned meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dalai Lama could have a broad effect on ties between the two countries.

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