‘NOT AGAINST’: The minister of foreign affairs said that Taiwan does not oppose its diplomatic allies setting up economic and trade offices in China, or vice versa
By Mo Yan-chih and Flora Wang
The Presidential Office yesterday stood behind Minister of Foreign Affairs Francisco Ou (歐鴻鍊) after he said that the government did not oppose Taiwan’s diplomatic allies and China establishing economic and trade offices in each other’s countries.

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By William Lowther
William Stanton, former deputy chief of mission to the US embassy in Seoul, South Korea, has been appointed new director of the Taipei office of the American Institute in Taiwan.

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By Loa Iok-sin
The Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) yesterday offered an apology to Pingpu Aborigines for calling them “homeless beggars” after a second protest by Pingpu activists, but the activists said the council missed the point and that they would not accept the apology because the CIP had not yet addressed the mentality behind the comment.

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Sweden’s foreign minister said all EU ambassadors have been recalled from Honduras after Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a coup.

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Thousands of US Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in an Afghan river valley yesterday, launching the biggest military offensive of US President Barack Obama’s presidency.

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BOLSTER DEFENSE: A South Korean defense ministry spokesman said the missiles appeared to be ground-to-ship missiles, which have a 140km range
North Korea yesterday fired four short-range missile off its east coast, South Korean military officials said.

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