WHITE TERROR: Authorities had said files related to professor Chen Wen-chen’s case had disappeared, but an investigator found records in the National Archives
By Jenny W. Hsu
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday called on the government to re-examine the case of Chen Wen-chen (陳文成), a math professor who is believed to have been murdered in 1981 during the White Terror era by the then-Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government, after a missing police file on Chen was recently uncovered.

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By Shelley Huang and Mo Yan-chih
Former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) court-appointed attorney yesterday said the former president has been “in a bad mood” since hearing that his daughter’s travel request had been denied.

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‘IN CIVILIZED COUNTRIES’: The rejection of the former president’s daughter’s plea to be allowed to go abroad prompted the lawyer to call for limits to prosecutors powers
By Flora Wang
Chairman of the Taiwan Bar Association Wellington Koo (顧立雄) accused prosecutors yesterday of abusing their authority by barring people under investigation from leaving the country.

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Iraqi forces were in control of towns and cities nationwide yesterday after the pullout of US troops six years after the invasion, but a bloody car bombing underscored the tough challenge ahead.

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FESTIVITIES: Beijing’s sudden decision to delay the launch of a policy that would have required an Internet filter on all new computers was welcome in several quarters
The US and European chambers of commerce in China yesterday welcomed a decision by Beijing to delay an order that new computers sold in the country be equipped with an Internet filtering program.

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