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Lien ignores 228 victims, honors nationalist heroes

Saturday, 25 October 2014 09:09 Taipei Times

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei mayoral candidate Sean Lien, second right, lays flowers at the bust of his great-grandfather Lien Heng in the 228 Memorial Park in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei mayoral candidate Sean Lien’s (連勝文) failure to pay his respects to victims of the 228 Massacre while visiting the 228 Memorial Park yesterday has sparked fierce controversy.

Lien visited the park to pay his respects to historical figures that he said are considered to have made great contributions to the nation.

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‘Taiwan is also the land of China’: KMT legislator

Friday, 24 October 2014 07:12 Taipei Times

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator Wu Yu-sheng speaks at a meeting of the legislasture’s Internal Administration Committee in July.
Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times

A visit to Taiwan by the Dalai Lama could be considered as the Tibetan religious leader returning to China, because “Taiwan is also the land of China,” Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Wu Yu-sheng (吳育昇) said yesterday.

Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chen Chih-mai (陳其邁) criticized Wu, saying that he might as well call Taiwanese legislators “members of China’s National People’s Congress.”

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Tibetan self-immolator Lobsang Thokmey.

DHARAMSHALA, March 16: A Tibetan monk in Ngaba region of eastern Tibet has become the 108th Tibetan living under China’s rule to self-immolate, marking five years since the 2008 peaceful protests in the region.

Lobsang Thokmey, 28, a monk at the Kirti Monastety set himself on fire today at around 2:40 pm (local time). He passed away in his protest.

According to the Dharamshala based Kirti Monastery, Lobsang Thokmey doused his body with kerosene in front of his monastic quarters in the west of the Kirti Monastery and started running towards the east.