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Ministry rejects KMT bond payment


Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Administration and Management Committee director-general Chiu Da-chan speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: CNA

The Ministry of Finance yesterday rejected the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) offer to pay a NT$864.8 million (US$28.6 million) fine imposed by the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee with US dollar-denominated bonds issued by the government in 1947.

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Presidential guard cut in sword attack


An injured military police officer is being taken to National Taiwan University Hospital after being attacked by a man wielding a samurai sword outside the Presidential Office Building yesterday.
Photo: Lee Hsin-fang, Taipei Times

A man wielding a Japanese sword yesterday slashed a military police officer guarding the Presidential Office Building, authorities said.

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Newsflash

Investors recoiled from risky assets yesterday and dumped shares in Asian banks and builders, fearing a Dubai debt default could reignite the financial turmoil of the credit crisis.

Stocks from Tokyo to Mumbai were haunted by suspicion of lenders’ exposure to Dubai firms that built islands in the Gulf, planned cities from Pakistan to Africa and fashioned the financial hub of the world’s biggest oil exporting region.