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Protesters call for Want Want chairman to apologize

Taipei Times

A demonstrator gestures in front of a poster of Want Want-China Times Group chairman Tsai Eng-meng during a student protest in front of CtiTV headquarters in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times

About 700 people yesterday protested in front of the CtiTV (中天電視) building in Taipei, calling on Want Want-China Times Group (旺旺中時集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) to apologize for leading what they called an “unprofessional media group” and to return to his old business of selling rice crackers.

The protesters were mainly members of the Anti-Media Monster Youth Alliance, which is composed of 30 student clubs from several universities. Teachers, journalists and regular working people also showed up, adding to the mix of placards and posters.

Ngawang Norphel passes away in a Chinese hospital

Tendar Tsering

Ngawang Norphel carrying serious burns after his self-immolation protest against China's continued occupation of Tibet on June 20, 2012 in Keygudo, Kham, eastern Tibet.

DAHRAMSHALA, July 30: More than a month after his self-immolation protest, Ngawang Norphel, a young Tibetan passed away in a Chinese hospital in the Tsongon region of eastern Tibet today.

According to his uncle, Tenzin Phegyel, a resident of Dharamshala, Ngawang Norphel’s father was in the hospital at the time of his death.

Be careful what you wish for

Taipei Times Editorial

Taiwanese academics should be careful what they wish for. By saying that Taiwan would only enter political negotiations with China on an ultimate solution to the cross-strait standoff if and when China democratizes, they are backing themselves into a corner that will be difficult to get out of, and that has quite a few pitfalls.

It is understandable that Taiwanese academics at a cross-strait forum recently held by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would use this tactic as a stalling action for entering political talks with Beijing. After all, it does not look likely that China will become a democracy anytime soon, and placing this as a prerequisite for political talks is a surefire way to put those talks on the back burner.

‘China Times’ editor threatens student with lawsuit

Taipei Times

National Tsing Hua University student Chen Wei-ting holds a placard calling for freedom of speech in front of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Chen Ping-hung, Taipei Times

Despite repeated threats that he would file a lawsuit against National Tsing Hua University student Chen Wei-ting (陳為廷) over an image posted on Facebook, China Times Weekly deputy editor-in-chief Lin Chao-hsin (林朝鑫) had yet to act on his threat yesterday, while Chen said he was ready to defend freedom of speech on the Internet.

“Instead of finding out the truth about the ‘walking fee incident,’ Want Want China Times Media Group chose to [threaten to] file a lawsuit against a college student for posting an image on Facebook,” Chen told a news conference in Taipei yesterday morning. “The lawsuit is not only against me, it’s against all netizens, and Taiwanese civil society.”

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