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Opposition Kuomintang presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou pledged Thursday to build a national February 28 memorial hall and continue research on the 61-year-old tragedy and publish biographies of people involved, if he wins on March 22.
Ma, whose party troops killed thousands of Taiwanese civilians to suppress a 1947 rebellion, said that owning mistake and offering [...]

Kenya’s opposition has called off planned street protests intended to pressure the government into agreeing to a power-sharing deal.
Raila Odinga backed down over Thursday’s planned protests as he and Mwai Kabaki, the president, came under increasing pressure to reach a compromise deal to end the country’s post-election crisis.
“We … are committed to the talks,” Odinga [...]

Government officials yesterday confirmed that under pressure from China, South Korea did not allow Taiwan’s representatives to attend South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s inauguration ceremony that was held on Monday.
“The suppression move can serve as evidence that Beijing will not show mercy to Taiwan regarding the sovereignty issue,” President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) said yesterday.
Chen [...]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Turkey declined to give Iraq a timetable for withdrawal of troops fighting Kurdish guerrillas on Wednesday, resisting pressure from the United States and other allies for a quick resolution.
Turkey’s military General Staff said another 77 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels had been killed in heavy fighting since Tuesday night, taking the death [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Toll Brothers Inc (TOL.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the largest U.S. luxury home builder, reported a quarterly loss after recording heavy writedowns during its fiscal first quarter.
Toll said on Wednesday it made a first-quarter loss of $96 million, or 61 cents per share, for the quarter ended [...]

SEOUL (Kyodo) Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and new South Korean President Lee Myung Bak agreed in their first meeting Monday to resume stalled reciprocal visits and promote talks for concluding a free-trade agreement in a bid to build future-oriented ties.
“I called for building a new era in Japan-South Korea relations, and the president said he [...]

Former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N will support a PPP-led government from outside as it does not want to be part of an administration with President Pervez Musharraf [Images] in power, party leaders said on Tuesday.
The PML-N was not seeking ‘any share in the ministry or government’ to be formed at the Centre [...]

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Home Depot Inc (HD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said earnings per share could fall as much as 24 percent this year and plans to open fewer stores due to the slumping U.S. housing market.
The world’s largest home improvement retailer also turned in worse-than-expected profit for the fourth quarter and said the [...]

PYONGYANG (Reuters) - The United States’ oldest symphony orchestra played an unprecedented concert on Tuesday in hermit North Korea that both sides say they hope will bring a little harmony to relations between the bitter Cold War foes.
North Korea’s solitary television station broadcast the whole concert live to a population taught to view all things [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Visa Inc, the world’s largest credit card network, said it may raise up to $18.8 billion in the largest U.S. initial public offering, amid concern the global credit crunch could eat into transaction volumes.
The eagerly-awaited offering calls for Visa to sell 406 million Class A shares at $37 to $42 each, [...]