A Taiwanese prosecutor said former President Lee Teng-hui has been indicted on a charge of embezzlement.

Taiwan’s president is expected to suspend the work of a government committee to reunify with rival China today, instead of scrapping the body altogether, in an apparent attempt to avoid American anger, a report says.

About a million Taiwanese marched through the capital Taipei today, some carrying signs reading “Shame on China”, to express their anger over a new Chinese law that authorises an attack on the island if it moves toward formal independence.

Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui arrived in Japan today on a trip that marked a diplomatic coup for the isolated island but threatened to exacerbate tense relations between Japan and China.