Hindujas reject reports of millenium dome scam
Leading NRI business family, the Hindujas, have rejected media reports suggesting cash links with British Trade and Industry secretary Peter Mandelson saying their participation in the prestigious millennium dome was on behalf of the Asian community.

Pro-China group toasts win
Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) on Sunday celebrated a major victory in crucial elections that marked a setback for the pro-independence opposition and were likely to be welcomed by China.

Solzhenitsyn: Censor from another age
A Russian television station cancelled plans on Friday to air a documentary marking the 80th birthday of Nobel laureate and Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn after he objected.

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