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Tibetans mark Human Rights Day with protests

Tibetans and supporters in Canberra, Australia carry a coffin
symbolic of the 12 Tibetans who self-immolated in Tibet since March this
year.
Tibetans and supporters in Canberra, Australia carry a coffin symbolic of the 12 Tibetans who self-immolated in Tibet since March this year.

DHARAMSHALA, December 14: Tibetans and supporters across the world commemorated the 63rd Human Rights Day with protest marches and campaigns calling on China to respect the fundamental human rights in Tibet, Saturday.

Tibetans and supporters in the Australian capital city of Canberra carried out a 24-hour hunger strike in front of the Chinese embassy, culminating with a peace march on December 10, which was attended by over 300 people.

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2012 ELECTIONS: DPP overwhelmed by clinking piggies

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was overwhelmed by support yesterday as its piggy bank fundraising event came to an end.

The “three little pigs” fundraising event began in the middle of October after the Control Yuan said the donation of a piggy bank to the DPP by three-year-old triplets in Greater Tainan was in violation of the Act Governing Political Donations (政治獻金管理條例).

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Newsflash

Taiwan must be prepared to fend off a Chinese invasion, which has become more likely following Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) becoming the country’s “emperor,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) told Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin in an article published yesterday.

Xi’s consolidation of power at the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20th National Congress and his policy pronouncements at the event indicate that the invasion threat is increasing, the article cites Wu as saying in Taipei on Friday last week.