BEIJING - CHINESE officials continue to struggle to find uses for the Bird's Nest Stadium, the iconic centrepiece of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Finding new events for the 80,000-seat venue is a constant problem, Mr Zhou Bin, the stadium's director of research and development, was quoted as saying on Wednesday in the official China Daily newspaper.

BEIJING - A PHOTO showing a plainclothes policeman pulling a naked woman by the hair during a prostitution bust in central China has caused outrage on the Internet, where it has been widely circulated.

TAIPEI - A TAIWAN court has frozen the domestic assets of former president Chen Shui-bian, intending to use them to pay off a fine he was handed on top of a life jail term for graft, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

'The assets include money deposited in the Chen family's domestic bank accounts, shares, houses and land,' Mr Chen Yun-nan, a spokesman of the Taipei district court, told AFP.