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US orders deportation of Taipei official

Sunday, 29 January 2012 08:27 Taipei Times

A US federal judge in Missouri on Friday ordered the deportation of Taiwanese official Jacqueline Liu (劉姍姍), who pleaded guilty last year to human trafficking charges for abusing her two Filipina maids, the US Attorneys Office said.

Liu, the 64-year-old director-general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested in November and charged with fraud in foreign labor contracting in connection with her treatment of the two maids.

Rights group says ‘escalating repression and failed official policy’ root causes of Tibetan protests

Sunday, 29 January 2012 08:23 Phayul.com

Norpa Yonten, 49 was shot dead in Chinese police firing in Drango, eastern Tibet, Monday, January 23, 2012.

DHARAMSHALA, January 28: An international Chinese rights group working for democratic reforms and social justice in China has said it is deeply concerned about the recent protests and violence in Tibet.

Human Rights in China (HRIC), which has offices in New York and Hong Kong, in a release yesterday said China must address the root causes of the recent spurge in protests in Tibet.

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A majority of Taiwanese are unhappy with President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) performance in office, with both his popularity and public trust levels dropping this month, a poll by the Chinese-language Global Views magazine showed yesterday.

The poll, conducted on last Monday and Tuesday, showed that 52 percent of respondents were unhappy with Ma’s overall performance, compared with 35 percent who said they were satisfied. This represented a 3 percent drop in satisfaction with Ma and a 0.7 percent increase in dissatisfaction with his performance.