TOP DOG: The vice president was selected to take over from Chairman Su Tseng-chang, as the party offered a dazzling array of excuses for its electoral defeat
By Jewel Huang
Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) will take over the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as acting chairwoman, in the wake of Su Tseng-chang's (蘇貞昌) resignation from the party's top job to shoulder responsibility for the DPP's election debacle.

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GROUNDLESS: Beijing has scotched press rumors that it is preparing a roadmap that will bring full democracy to the former British territory within the next decade or so
China yesterday denied a report indicating it was considering the possibility of full democracy in Hong Kong by 2017, following Sunday's mass democracy protest.

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Popular entertainer Jacky Wu (吳宗憲) yesterday offered a humble public apology for a gaffe he made on his variety show that has outraged the nation's Muslim community.

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A defiant former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein refused to appear in court yesterday, delaying the resumption of his trial over a Shiite massacre a day after the deposed dictator shouted "Go to hell" at the judge.

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