TIMING: While the premier said there were no plans to discuss a potential economic pact at cross-strait talks scheduled for May or June, the MAC said that it was possible
By Shih Hsiu-chuan
A Presidential Office official last night backpedaled on remarks made by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) on Thursday on whether discussions on signing an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China would be included in upcoming cross-strait negotiations.

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MISSPELLED, MISATTRIBUTED: A retired teacher said she was so shocked by the president's thesis at Harvard that she carefully analyzed it, finding all kinds of errors
By Richard Hazeldine
President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) Harvard University doctoral thesis contains more than 1,000 errors that violate the university's freshmen writing guidebook, a report on the Boston-based Web site examiner.com said yesterday.

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By Mo Yan-chih
Former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) yesterday declined to confirm whether she would accept Beijing's invitation to visit China.

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By Jackson Broder
Outfielder Lee Jin-young’s grand slam put the exclamation point on a six-run first inning as Taiwan fell to South Korea 9-0 in their disastrous opening match of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) last night in Tokyo.

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Pakistani police said yesterday they would wrap up an interim report within 24 hours into the deadly Sri Lankan cricket attack after authorities said the perpetrators had been identified.

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South Korean airlines were rerouting their flights away from North Korean airspace, hours after the North threatened Seoul’s passenger planes amid heightened tensions on the divided peninsula.

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