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Taiwan's semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation, which handles relations with the mainland, will hold a board meeting at which its new chairman, expected to be Kuomintang secretary-general Lin Join-sane, will be elected. Chairman Chiang Pin-kung, and his deputy, Kao Koong-liang, announced their resignations last week. Kao agreed to stay on after an appeal by President Ma Ying-jeou.

Two officers from the Hong Kong Correctional Services Department who have admitted to replacing drug addicts' urine samples to suppress drug-relapse figures will hear their verdicts. The Eastern Court will decide whether Tang Kwai-man and Leung Siu-wing acted under instructions when they swapped the samples of released inmates with those undergoing rehabilitation at an addiction-treatment centre in Stanley Prison.