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Taipei inks financial MOU with China

The nation’s financial regulator unexpectedly signed a financial memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Beijing at 6pm via a document exchange yesterday, sealing the much awaited pact.

Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) chairman Sean Chen (陳冲) announced in the evening that he represented Taiwan in signing the documents — one in traditional Chinese and one in simplified Chinese — with Chinese authorities through a document exchange at 6pm.

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Foreign academics urge Ma to seek public consensus

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) must seek public consensus on the development of cross-strait ties as Taipei-Beijing relations spread into more political areas, some European experts on cross-strait affairs said in interviews with the Taipei Times.

Dafydd Fell, senior lecturer of the department of political and international studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, said Ma needs to be very cautious on the pace of liberalizing cross-strait relations.

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Newsflash

DHARAMSHALA, October 7: Reports coming out of Tibet confirm that two more Tibetans set themselves on fire today in an apparent anti-China protest. One is feared dead while the other is being described in serious condition.

This is the third incident in a week following the self immolation of Kesang Wangchuk on Monday, when Tibetans have been forced to commit the ultimate sacrifice of setting their bodies on fire as a last resort of peaceful action against the Chinese government’s repressive policies in Tibet. Last week, two monks, Lobsang Kalsang and Lobsang Konchok had set themselves ablaze.