Bill to oust Taiwan president fails in parliament
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Scandal-tainted Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian won a fresh reprieve on Friday when opposition parties in parliament failed for a third time to pass a bill that would allow the electorate to vote on his removal from office.
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Parliament failed Tuesday to agree on constitutional changes and election reforms.
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Taiwan's High Court on Thursday rejected  a second lawsuit to nullify the March 20 presidential poll and  upheld President Chen Shui-bian's narrow re-election victory.
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Taiwan's opposition parties, which favor closer ties with China, claimed victory in the parliament elections on Saturday, beating President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence party after a tight race.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan&#39;s opposition scored a surprise victory in legislative elections Saturday, a development expected to blunt President Chen Shui-Bian&#39;s pro-independence agenda and ease fears in Beijing.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Lawmakers angered by the  Palestinian leadership's failure to make reforms plan to force  a parliamentary no-confidence vote that could bring down the  government appointed by Yasser Arafat, legislators said.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The people of Taiwan have said no to aa new mandate to accelerate President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s pro-independence policies.
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Singapore's parliament votes against a controversial proposal to decriminalise sex between men.
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Taiwan&#39;s High Court ruled against nullifying the March 20 presidential election on Thursday, rejecting opposition claims that the vote was marred by fraud and a shooting that
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Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian's  surprise defeat in Saturday's legislative elections looks  likely to soothe simmering tensions with rival China, but no  breakthrough in the bitter political impasse is expected soon.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Nov. 24 -- President Chen Shui-bian easily survived an impeachment vote in Taiwan's legislature Friday despite his wife's indictment on embezzlement charges and a prosecutor's statement that Chen could be indicted as well if he did not have presidential immunity.
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A vote is due to be held in Taiwan on plans to halve the number of seats in the island's famously heated legislature.
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Ukraine's interior minister survived an attempt in parliament to dismiss him Thursday after lawmakers fell three votes short of the number needed to dismiss the controversial ally of President Viktor Yushchenko.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan  -- Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party won a landslide victory in legislative elections Saturday, dealing a humiliating blow to the government's hardline China policies two months before a presidential poll.
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Taiwan's High Court rejected a second  lawsuit filed by the opposition Nationalist Party to nullify  President Chen Shui-bian's March re-election victory, a judge  said on Thursday.
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Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko suffered a defeat in parliament today, when his foes blocked electoral amendments intended to avert fraud in a new presidential runoff later this month.
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Taiwan's Foreign Minister warned  lawmakers on Wednesday that ties with Washington would be hurt  if parliament failed to approve an $18 billion budget to buy  advanced U.S. weapons.