Taiwan’s opposition Nationalist Party’s (KMT) presidential candidate, Ma Ying-jeou, has won more than half the vote in Saturday’s election, the party said, auguring improved ties with diplomatic rival China. Ma had won more than seven million votes, the party said, more than half the total 13-million people who cast their ballot.
South Korea’s president arrived in hermit North Korea’s capital on Tuesday to cheering crowds and a dour leader Kim Jong-il for only the second summit between two states still technically at war. South Korea’s Roh Moo-hyun has billed his first trip to the communist North as a chance to end animosity born with the partition of the Korean peninsula.