DIGNITY: While promising to uphold the legislature's dignity, the speaker said he had no authority to prevent prosecutors from conducting investigations on legislators
By Flora Wang
Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) yesterday vowed to protect the dignity of the legislature after prosecutors took a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator directly from the Legislative Yuan for questioning in connection with a bribery investigation.

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'BIAS': Legal and political observers said the president's move would only intimidate the judiciary instead of promoting judicial reform to better serve the public interest
By Ko Shu-ling
President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) raised eyebrows recently when it was revealed that his lawyer had filed a letter of committal for trial to the Taipei District Court with regard to a forgery lawsuit Ma filed against Prosecutor Hou Kuan-jen (侯寬仁) in January last year.

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LETTER: Tsai Huang-liang said Chen Shui-bian wrote Ma, saying he was worried about Chen Hsing-yu's mental health and that she might commit suicide
By Shelley Huang
Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) has written a letter to President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) asking him to allow his daughter, Chen Hsing-yu (陳幸妤), to leave to register for studies in the US, a legislator said yesterday.

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FIRST TEST RIDE: A proximity detection mechanism caused a train to screech to a halt even though there was nothing on the Neihu Line’s tracks
By Jenny W. Hsu
The long-awaited Neihu Line of Taipei’s Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system malfunctioned twice on the first day of test rides yesterday, but Taipei City Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) was confident the system would be safe when it opens to the public on Saturday.

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NATIONAL SYMBOLS: Spectators at other international sporting events such as the Beijing Olympics were barred from entry if they carried the ROC’s national flag
By Flora Wang
Spectators attending the World Games will be allowed to carry the national flag to cheer the nation’s athletes, an official from the Kaohsiung Organizing Committee (KOC) said yesterday.

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By Shelley Shan
Close to 300 aftershocks have been reported in Hualien following a couple of large earthquakes on Sunday, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said yesterday.

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Former Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) director-general Billy Chang (張國政) is trying to establish the nation’s first flight school to help upgrade the country’s aviation standards.

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The Kenting National Park Administration yesterday urged motorists to slow down when driving on the highway near the coastal areas of Pingtung County because large numbers of land crabs will soon be making their way down to the sea to lay eggs.

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GETTING ORGANIZED: Boosts from the US Democratic Party victory in 2006 and President Obama’s win last year helped Democrats Abroad establish a local chapter

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DISAPPEARED: After a request by a German family, a Chaojhou Township police officer tracked down the burial ground of a priest who died in a crash in 1963

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