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Anti-nuclear groups call for March 9 rally


Anti-nuclear activists protest near the Presidential Office in Taipei yesterday, calling on the public to join a nationwide anti-nuclear rally on March 9.
Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times

As the anniversary of the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster and nuclear crisis in Japan approaches, activists yesterday called on the public to join a nationwide anti-nuclear demonstration on March 9.

“Stop the budget hike for the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant! Stop dangerous nuclear energy,” dozens of people representing a number of environmental groups, including the Green Citizens’ Action Alliance, Nuclear Free Homeland Alliance and Citizen of the Earth Taiwan, chanted during a press conference on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei.

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Breaking: Two Tibetan teenagers burn selves to death

Tibetan self-immolator Rinchen, 17, in an undated photo.
Tibetan self-immolator Rinchen, 17, in an undated photo.

DHARAMSHALA, February 20: Two Tibetan teenagers set themselves on fire in Kyangtsa region of Zoege, eastern Tibet on February 19, protesting China’s continued occupation and repressive policies in Tibet.

Rinchen, 17 and Sonam Dhargey, 18 have succumbed to their burns.

According to the exile base of Kirti Monastery in Dharamshala, the two teenagers carried out their fiery protest at around 9:30 pm (local time) yesterday.

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Security officers drag away a man who was lying in the road and obstructing a van taking former president Chen Shui-bian from Taoyuan General Hospital back to Taipei Prison yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was yesterday returned to Taipei Prison after receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Taoyuan County.

Chen, who is serving a 17-and-a-half-year sentence for corruption, was granted a temporary release from Taipei Prison on March 6 for a medical checkup at Taoyuan General Hospital. Chen was found to be suffering from acute coronary syndrome and underwent a cardiac catheterization on Thursday.