Dong Shiang-mei, the woman who claimed she had a daughter with the late Strait Exchange Foundation CEO Koo Cheng-fu had done a complete turnabout in court and conceded that the daughter is not Koo’s. Dong at one point went down on her knees saying she would plead guilty if she could be granted probation. Taiwan’s allies at the UN are accusing China of expanding its arsenal of weapons and missiles aimed at the island in readiness for an invasion and urged the UN to step in and promote a peaceful dialogue between the two parties. Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has arrived in Britain. Thaksin was deposed in a bloodless army-led coup Tuesday while he was attending a session of the UN General Assembly in New York. For decades, Guatemalan prisons have been held up as examples of had practice, which include jailbreaks, rampant corruption and massive overcrowding. In effect, jail gang leaders have been running the prisons with impunity. A new study shows the effects of global warming are getting worse. The AP’s Ed Donahue has this report. Researchers say the earth has been warming at a rate of about a third of a degree Fahrenheit per degree over the past thirty years. (AP’s Associated Press) The continuing crisis between Russia and Georgia shows mp sign of abating despite the release of four Russian army officers arrested in Georgia on espionage charges. (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan , Kyrgyzstan) The head of the United Nations Atomic Agency, the IAEA has warned that as many as 30 countries could have the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if controls aren’t tightened further. (Uranium) A suicide bomber has attacked the military convoy in Sri Lanka killing at least 103 people; most of them are sailors in the navy. (Patriot, Tamil Tigers.) Human rights ombudsman from more than 65 countries are a meeting in Bolivia’s largest city, La Paz, to discuss ways of protecting the rights of migrants around the world by setting up international human rights network. A voluntary recall of 340000laptop batteries made by Sony Corporation, part of a voluntary global replacement program was officially announced in the United States. (Compulsory) The government in Britain is pressing for internationally agreed standards to regulate online gambling at a conference of 30 countries it’s hosting today. It says it wants measures to prevent children and vulnerable people from getting involved, but not a full ban on online gambling, as is the case in the United States. Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, in a call for President Chen Shui-bian to step down. The protest follows a decision, by state prosecutors to charge president’s wife and the presidential aides with corruption and perjury in connection with the misappropriation of nearly half a million dollars State Fund. (Sweatshirt) Almost two-third of Taiwanese teenagers say they want to learn more about money management, but there’s no such instruction on schools. A survey done by City group has found while nearly 64 percent of Taiwan’s teens want to learn more about how to manage money, only 3 percent receive help from schoolteachers and professors. National Taiwan University professor Joyce Fang says the survey shows an education program in financial literacy is much needed. China and India have agreed to step up economic and diplomatic cooperation significantly at talks in Delhi leaders of the two countries set a target of doubling bilateral trade by 2010. Taiwan police busted a mechanic working for China Airlines today on suspicion of helping a drug smuggling syndicate import heroin into Taiwan. 感謝某地理系同學熱情贊助~~ --

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