NO BIG DEAL: Describing changing names as common practice, the president said the steelmaker should follow the example of others and promote Taiwan-consciousness
By Ko Shu-ling
President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) yesterday called on China Steel to change its name to avoid confusion with similarly named companies in China, arguing that name change is common in the industrial sector.

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PRESIDENTIAL TICKET: The legislators' resolution came after a statement from all seven DPP city and county chiefs asking the president to mediate among the four
By Flora Wang and Ko Shu-ling
In the face of increasing tensions among the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) four presidential contenders, the DPP caucus yesterday passed a resolution calling for President Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) intervention.

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By Ko Shu-ling and Jimmy Chuang
The wrangling among the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) presidential hopefuls continued yesterday as Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) stood by her earlier story that Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) had tried to force President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) out of office at the height of last year's anti-Chen campaign.

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By Jewel Huang
Hong Kong possesses mature conditions for implementing universal suffrage and China should respond to the voices of the majority of Hong Kongers, who have called for full democracy before 2012, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday.

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By Loa Iok-sin
A national campaign club in support of former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) presidential bid was launched in Taipei yesterday.

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By Max Hirsch
Angered by what they said was Minister of Education Tu Cheng-sheng's (杜正勝) neglect of his duty to report to the legislature, pan-blue and pan-green lawmakers on the Education and Culture Committee yesterday threatened to slash the ministry's annual budget this year.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs supports the government's plan to promote medical tourism and allow foreigners to enter Taiwan for medical purposes for a maximum six-month stay, ministry spokesman David Wang (王建業) said yesterday.

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POLITICS?: The KMT legislator accepted the verdict, but said that it could have been the result of DPP politicking to prevent him from exposing that party's 'abuses'
By Jimmy Chuang and Shih Hsiu-chuan
The Supreme Court yesterday turned down Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chiu Yi's (邱毅) appeal to repeal his public disturbance case.

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By Nadia Tsao
Taiwan Medical Professionals Alliance chairman Wu Shuh-min (吳樹民) said in Washington on Wednesday that a Taiwanese delegation had planned to visit the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in at attempt to win the organization's support for Taiwan's entry into the WHO but had to cancel the plan after interference by the WHO.

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By Angelica Oung
Although the loss of a relative to dementia can drag on for many years, families can still take an active role to improve the quality of a dementia sufferer's last days, a patients' families' group said.

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MACHINATIONS: An anonymous caller alleged that a judge had accepted a bribe to acquit entertainer Hu Gua, who supposedly made a fortune cheating at mahjong
By Ko Shu-ling and Jimmy Chuang
The Judicial Yuan yesterday said it would investigate a district court judge for allegedly accepting a bribe to acquit a TV host, who had been indicted on fraud charges.

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By Angelica Oung
A loosely formed coalition of 200 Taiwanese bloggers say that the local mainstream media have failed to convey to the public why the 78 year-old Losheng (Happy Life) Sanatorium should not be razed to make way for a new mass rapid transit (MRT) station.

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By Flora Wang
The result of the first round of legislative cross-party negotiations yesterday on a draft bill designed to compensate leprosy patients who were mistreated when the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government was in power was welcomed by Losheng Sanatorium preservationists.

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By Shelley Shan
Chunghwa Telecom's (CHT) plan to lower the price of its asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL) service by April 1 may not take shape, as the National Communications Commission (NCC) questioned the terms of the company's proposed rate change plan yesterday.

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■ Entertainment
New TTV head announced
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