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EU urges new sanctions for Russia ‘atrocities’

Tuesday, 05 April 2022 06:01 Taipei Times

Bodies lie in a mass grave behind a church in Bucha, Ukraine, on Sunday.
Photo: AFP

EU officials yesterday said they were weighing more sanctions targeting Moscow in response to alleged atrocities against Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces that sparked a wave of international outrage.

Despite Russian denials of responsibility, condemnation was swift, with Western leaders, NATO and the UN all voicing horror at images of dead bodies in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, and elsewhere.

Taiwan inaugurates first domestically made crane vessel

Monday, 04 April 2022 06:17 Taipei Times

A man operates a water cannon at the launch of Taiwan’s first crane vessel, the Green Jade, at CSBC Corp, Taiwan’s shipyard in Kaohsiung yesterday.
Photo: Hung Chen-hung, Taipei Times

Taiwan yesterday held a launching ceremony for its first domestically produced crane vessel, the Green Jade, to be used for offshore wind farm projects, with Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) saying it was a milestone in the nation’s push for green energy.

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Kirti Monastery monk Lobsang Namgyal in an undated photo. He is the 100th known Tibetan to self-immolate under China's rule since 2009 demanding freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama.

DHARAMSHALA, February 13: In confirmed reports, a Tibetan monk set himself on fire on February 3 in the Ngaba region of eastern Tibet protesting China’s continued occupation of Tibet.

Lobsang Namgyal, 37, a monk of the Kirti Monastery has become the 100th known Tibetan to self-immolate under China’s rule since the wave began in 2009.

Following immense security clampdown in the region, the news of Lobsang Namgyal’s fiery protest reached exile on February 13, a day being observed by Tibetan exiles all over the world as the 100th year of His Holiness the 13th Dalai Lama’s Tibetan Proclamation of Independence.