INJURED GIRL: A Jen Ai hospital surgeon initially said he'd been too busy to examine an injured girl, but yesterday the deputy mayor said the doctor confessed he'd lied
By Wang Hsiao-wen
The fiasco involving the transfer of a critically injured four-year-old girl from Taipei to Taichung for urgent brain surgery last Tuesday took an unexpected turn yesterday, as Taipei Deputy Mayor Yeh Chin-chuan (葉金川) announced that the neurosurgeon, Lin Chih-nan (林致男), had been absent and made up the case report without viewing the patient's CT scan.

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NO COALITION: Soong said he would not form an alliance with the DPP, and that he supported Wang Jin-pyng's bid for the legislative speakership
By Charles Snyder
People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜) has rejected the idea of his party forming a coalition government with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) with him as premier.

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IRAQ DETAINEES: US Army Specialist Charles Graner testified during the sentencing phase that he had been following orders. In Iraq, many called for a stiffer penalty
US Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr, who grinned in photos of Iraqi prisoners being sexually humiliated but told jurors, "I didn't enjoy what I did there," was sentenced to 10 years behind bars in the first court-martial stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

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Western nations lauded for their generosity following the southeast Asian tsunami disaster are failing to honor pledges of aid, leaving shortfalls of millions of dollars in the recovery program.

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Zhao Ziyang (趙紫陽), the Chinese Communist Party leader deposed after he tearfully sympathized with the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, has been hospitalized in a deep coma and may be near death, a human rights activist said yesterday.

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