may buy airlines and hotel companies, Lee Boon Keng, head of the firm’s investment solutions group in Singapore, said by phone yesterday. Two-year bonds may rally as overseas investors buy Taiwan dollar-denominated assets to profit from a stronger currency, said Samson Tu, who helps manage $1.6 billion of fixed-income securities at Uni-President in Taipei.

Ma, the 61-year-old leader of the ruling Kuomintang Party, won a second four-year term as president after defeating Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of the Democratic Progressive Party, in Jan. 14 elections. Ma’s first term was characterized by the pursuit of closer ties with China through trade agreements and the ending of a six-decade ban on direct air, sea and postal links. Read the rest of this entry »

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According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Delaware, Florida and Alabama are the only states that give judges the final power to sentence a convict to death.

All pending capital murder trials and the executions of about a dozen prisoners in Delaware were put on hold pending the outcome of the case. It's unclear whether this ruling will apply retroactively and the state could appeal this decision in federal court.