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US, Japan show united front on China


US President Joe Biden, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga arrive for a joint news conference at the White House in Washington on Friday.
Photo: EPA-EFE

The US and Japan on Friday vowed to stand firm together against an assertive China, and to step up cooperation on climate change and next-generation technology as US President Joe Biden made his first summit a show of alliance unity.

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Commission to propose legislation to deal with White Terror perpetrators


Transitional Justice Commission Chairwoman Yang Tsui, right, and Deputy Chairwoman Yeh Hung-ling hold a news conference yesterday in Taipei.
Photo: Lin Cheng-kung, Taipei Times

Transitional Justice Commission Chairwoman Yang Tsui (楊翠) yesterday vowed that the commission would propose legislation to deal with investigations into the perpetrators of White Terror atrocities and other human rights abuses of the past.

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Taiwan March representatives Chen Wei-ting, left, and Lin Fei-fan, right, speak at a press conference in the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday organized to protest at what they called the government’s excessive reliance on lawsuits and invasion of people’s medical records as it investigates the occupation of the legislature.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times

Lawyers, student leaders and a legislator yesterday accused law-enforcement agencies, including prosecutors and the police, of abusing their powers and intimidation for summoning and questioning hundreds of Sunflower movement participants since the movement’s protests ended on April 10.

More than 400 people have been questioned or investigated by the prosecutors and the police, who obtained the protesters’ personal and medical information — sometimes illegally — since the three-week-long occupation of the Legislative Yuan’s main chamber, they said.