CONCERNS: The National Security Bureau promises it will do its best to protect foreign dignitaries who will attend the May 20 inauguration ceremony after a series of threats
By Jewel Huang
The National Security Bureau (NSB) and National Police Administration (NPA) yesterday said they would step up security measures for six embassies that had received phone calls warning their presidents or ambassadors not to participate in President Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) inauguration on May 20.

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By Jessie Ho
A new computer virus named "sasser" has disrupted 1,600 of the Chunghwa Post Co's computers, and paralyzed postal account transfer operations on the first workday of the week.

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By Ko Shu-ling
The nation's top representative to Brussels, David Lee (李大維) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), may take up the position of the nation's top diplomat in Washington once the Cabinet is reshuffled, sources said yesterday.

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Militiamen barraged US forces with mortars in the holy city of Najaf yesterday in one of the more intense attacks on American troops, who have been holding back their full firepower to avoid enflaming the anger of Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority.

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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday warned that "tough decisions" lie ahead after his Likud Party rejected his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

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