‘UNIMAGINABLE’: Former president Chen Shui-bian’s daughter had hoped to travel to the US with her three children to study, however prosecutors rejected the request
By Shelley Huang, Mo Yan-chih and Rich Chang
District prosecutors yesterday rejected a request from former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) daughter, Chen Hsing-yu (陳幸妤), to have her travel restrictions lifted, ruining her plans to study in the US with her three children.

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By Shelley Huang and Rich Chang
The Tainan branch of the Taiwan High Court yesterday annulled the election victory of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator Chang Sho-wen (張碩文).

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Iraqi security forces paraded in tanks and armored vehicles across Baghdad yesterday as they took control of towns and cities nationwide from departing US troops six years after the invasion.

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Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya vowed to return to Honduras as angry supporters clashed with riot police near the presidential palace.

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‘LEGACY OF SHAME': The former NASDAQ chairman said he couldn’t offer any excuse for the lies he told, while his wife, Ruth, broke her silence on the scandal
Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced on Monday to 150 years in jail for masterminding an “evil” multibillion-dollar investment scam that cheated thousands of people around the world.

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China will delay the launch of a controversial policy that would force manufacturers to install mandatory filtering software on new computers, Xinhua news agency said yesterday.

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