PASSING GRADE?: Assessing the candidates' replies to a series of questions about their plans for the environment, specialists said both failed to answer the 'core questions'
By Mo Yan-chih and Ko Shu-ling
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday pledged to reduce the use of energy that causes carbon dioxide emissions to meet emissions targets set by the Kyoto Protocol and plant 60,000 hectares of new forest to help the nation's sustainable development if elected president next month.

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'MERELY AN EXCUSE': Gay and lesbian groups criticized the two candidates for failing to seriously raise the issue of a same-sex marriage bill during the debate
By Mo Yan-chih and Ko Shu-ling
The economy, human rights, educational reform and cultural platforms were among the issues debated yesterday by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidates.

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By Mo Yan-chih
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) camp yesterday dismissed accusations by a member of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) opponent Frank Hsieh's (謝長廷) camp that Ma owned real estate in the US and urged the Hsieh camp to refrain from making accusations without the evidence to back them.

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By Jenny W. Hsu
If China were to attack Taiwan in the near future, it would most likely do so in the next three years under a Chinese Nationalist Party president (KMT), a Japanese academic said yesterday at a forum discussing the future of Taiwan's international relations.

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Former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairman Hsu Hsin-liang (許信良) paid a visit yesterday to DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's (謝長廷) campaign headquarters to show his support before Hsieh was set to appear in the first televised debate with his Chinese National Party (KMT) rival Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九).

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MAKE OUR OWN GAME: As an application by 'Team Tibet' was rejected by the International Olympic Committee, the exiles will hold their own Olympics
By Loa Iok-sin
The Taipei leg of the torch relay for the 2008 Tibetan Olympics took place yesterday with Tibetan expats in Taiwan, several Tibet support groups and Miss Tibet 2006 Tsering Chungtak in attendance.

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By Jenny W. Hsu
Standing in front of an oversized picture of the Dalai Lama, the 23- year-old Tibetan beauty queen from India clasped her palms together and bowed her head before pulling up a chair.

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'FRUITFUL DEMOCRACY': Employees at the McDonald's where the conference was held called police when the members of an alliance assaulted Shieh after the talk
By Nadia Tsao
Government Information Office Minister Shieh Jyh-wey (謝志偉), who is in Washington as part of a personal trip to campaign and raise funds for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), was confronted yesterday by members of the 319 Truth Investigation Alliance in Washington during a press conference.

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By Rich Chang
One suspect was killed and two others were arrested by police following a fierce gunfight after a jewelry shop robbery in Yunlin County on Saturday night during which the shop owner was shot and killed.

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President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) said yesterday that there were precedents in foreign countries to make arms procurements via privately run companies.

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By Shelley Shan
A cold air mass from the continent is expected to arrive tomorrow, lowering the mercury to 12oC, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.

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