FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE: The premier said that he had never criticized the DPP for visits by its members to former president Chen Shui-bian, who is a convicted criminal
By Shih Hsiu-chuan and Jenny W. hsu
Amid allegations over his relationship with a convicted double murderer and former Nantou County gang boss, Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) yesterday said he would resign if the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) could provide any evidence of irregularities in their relationship.

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TEXAS TRAGEDY: A cousin of the suspected shooter told Fox News that he had been ordered to serve a term in Iraq and had been resisting deployment there
The death toll left by an army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage at a US military base in Texas rose to 13 yesterday, US media reported.

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By William Lowther
While security in the Taiwan Strait will be a major issue on US President Barack Obama’s agenda when he meets Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) in Beijing later this month, there are unlikely to be any breakthroughs or major developments, a Washington conference was told on Thursday.

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China denounced as protectionist new US anti-dumping duties on steel pipes and launched its own investigation into imports of US-made automobiles yesterday, a week before a visit by US President Barack Obama.

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Members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party staged demonstrations yesterday, urging him to run for a second term, while the rival Hamas movement quickly declared his announcement of the previous night that he would not an admission of “failure.”

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