Thousands Call for Taiwan Leader to Quit - Washington Post

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Thousands of people took to the streets across Taiwan on Saturday to demand President Chen Shui-bian's resignation over a corruption scandal that could land his wife in prison. Some 6,000 people marched in the southern city of Kaohsiung a day after prosecutors indicted Chen's wife, Wu Shu-chen, and three presidential aides on embezzlement, forgery and perjury charges. Wu was accused of siphoning $450,000 from a special diplomacy fund between 2002 and 2006. Taiwan human rights ...