TAIPEI: A Taiwanese candidate running for a seat in the Kaohsiung City Council was giving away the male anti-impotency pill Viagra in exchange for votes, the China Times Express reported. The candidate gave out the pills when campaigning in his southern Taiwan constituency, where Viagra was reportedly a popular topic of discussion among senior citizens, the paper said yesterday.

Porn in the PMO

LONDON: Three officials in British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office were transferred for using government computers to download pornography from the Internet, a spokesman for the premier said Saturday. The spokesman described the officials as ``very low-level clerks''. He said Blair had not been informed as he ``had bigger things to do''.

Obese panda

BEIJING: Diandian, the world's tiniest giant panda cub, has a weight problem. The official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday that Diandian had gained more than 30 gms since she was bornweighing only 58 gms. Yet, Diandian, whose name means ``Little Thing'' in Chinese, is still only half the weight of her twin.