TRANSIT STOP: Instead of overnighting in Guam, the president and his delegation stayed at the Sheraton in Nadi, where they were guests at an `almost state-level'
By Jimmy Chuang
President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) surprised many people yesterday when he flew to Nadi, the biggest city on the west shore of Fiji, for a stopover on his return home from Kiribati.

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By Melody Chen
The UN Office at Geneva (UNOG) refused yesterday to grant Taiwanese journalists media accreditation to cover the World Health Assembly (WHA), the World Health Organization's (WHO) highest governing body, and said it did so because Taiwan is not a state recognized by the UN General Assembly.

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Taiwan demanded yesterday that a Chinese oil exploration vessel leave waters near Taiwanese-held islands also claimed by China, and said that the coast guard had sent a vessel to the area in the South China Sea.

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A dozen busloads of riot troops guarded the Japanese Embassy in Beijing yesterday as China marked a sensitive anniversary amid simmering public anger at Tokyo, but there was no sign of new anti-Japan protests.

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Iraqi militant group Army of Ansar al-Sunna said it was behind a suicide bombing which killed at least 46 people at Kurdish party offices in northern Iraq yesterday, according to an Internet statement.

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