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Beef ban not against WTO rules: source

Sunday, 18 March 2012 08:49 Taipei Times

A researcher puts a meat sample in a machine to test if it contains a banned additive, ractopamine, at a
laboratory in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: AFP

Taiwan has neither broken any WTO rules nor breached any commitments by failing to go ahead with a plan to establish maximum residue levels for the livestock feed additive ractopamine, of which the organization was first notified in 2007, a WTO official said.

Breaking: Yet another self-immolation marks a year of fiery protests

Sunday, 18 March 2012 08:14 Phayul.com

A file photo of monk Lobsang Tsultrim. (Photo/Kirti monastery)

DHARAMSHALA, March 16: Exactly a year after monk Phuntsog set himself on fire demanding the return of the Dalai Lama from exile and freedom in Tibet, another Tibetan has set himself on fire today.

Lobsang Tsultrim, a 20-year-old monk from the besieged Kirti monastery in the Ngaba region of eastern Tibet set his body on fire at around 5 pm local time.

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Public confidence in Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and her party reached new highs this month while President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) trust level continued to drop, the latest poll released by the Chinese-language Global Views Monthly magazine showed.

The poll, conducted by the Global Views Survey Research Center, put Tsai’s confidence index at 52.3 points on a scale of 0 to 100. The figure represented an increase of 1.1 points from last month and was the highest since May.