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Obama imperiling Taiwan: US group

Sunday, 03 January 2010 09:27 Taipei Times

The head of a prominent business group accused US President Barack Obama of compromising Taiwan’s security to promote US ties with China.

Taiwan is watching “with increased exasperation,” said Rupert Hammond-Chambers, president of the US-Taiwan Business Council.

Respected Tibetan lama handed prison sentence in Sichuan

Saturday, 02 January 2010 00:53 Taipei Times

China has sentenced a respected Tibetan lama to eight-and-a-half years in jail for illegal land occupation and ammunition possession, possibly the first senior Buddhist leader tried on serious charges linked to riots in 2008 in the Tibetan capital, a lawyer said on Thursday.

A court in Sichuan Province, bordering Tibet, convicted Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche, who headed a convent in Ganzi, a predominantly Tibetan prefecture in the province, Beijing-based attorney Jiang Tianyong (江天勇) said.

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2015-12-26 Taiwanese Shrine Initation & Marytr-Spirit Enshrine Ceremony

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Newsflash

Kazuya Shimizu yesterday hugs Mika Tanaka, the lady who helped him locate his place of birth in Hualien County.
Photo: Yang Yi-chung, Taipei Times

Born in Taiwan, but forced to leave his home after Japan lost World War II, Kazuya Shimizu yesterday finally realized his dream of revisiting the site of the village in Hualien County where he was born.

The 70-year-old Shimizu is a wansei, the Japanese term used to describe someone born or who grew up in Taiwan and is a descendant of Japanese immigrants who had come to Taiwan during the Japanese occupation from 1895 to 1945.