CHINA ENVOY'S VISIT TO TAIWAN
TAICHUNG (Taiwan) - A POLICEMAN was injured and six protesters were detained in a scuffle on Wednesday night in Taiwan outside the hotel of a top envoy visiting from China, a police spokesman said.
The clash, which marked the first arrests and the first injury since Mr Chen Yunlin arrived in the central Taiwan city of Taichung, happened when police tried to stop protesters setting off fireworks, he said.
LONDON - UNIVERSITIES must move away from the traditional three-year courses and offer more 'fast-track' degrees to help reduce education budgets and boost the economy, the government said on Wednesday.
Cutting next year's higher education budget, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said he wanted to see more students taking degrees that last just two years.
KUALA LUMPUR - THE Malaysian government faced a storm of criticism on Wednesday over allegations of official corruption after the theft of two US-made fighter jet engines worth US$29 million.
News reports this week said the stolen Northrop F-5E jet engines had been sold on the black market by military officers to a South American company. They had been taken from a military airbase, apparently last year.
WASHINGTON - AN AMERICAN Airlines Boeing 737 overshot the runway while landing at the international airport in Kingston, Jamaica on Tuesday night, causing 40 injuries but no fatalities, a local newspaper reported.
'The injured passengers have been taken to the Kingston Public Hospital,' Information Minister Daryl Vaz told the Jamaica Observer. 'There are no reports of fatalities.'
