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Crowds march for democracy in HK

Taipei Times

Hundreds of thousands of protesters joined the annual 01 July rally from Victoria Park to Central calling for `one person, one vote` and universal suffrage for the 2017 chief executive election, marking the 16th anniversary of Hong Kong`s handover to Chinese rule after 156 years of British administration.
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Tens of thousands of protesters, some waving British imperial flags and denouncing Chinese “colonists,” marched through torrential rain in Hong Kong yesterday to clamor for universal suffrage on the 16th anniversary of the territory’s return to Chinese rule.

Tropical Storm Rumbia brought a drenching and strong winds to the march, now an annual outpouring of discontent directed at both China’s communist government and the semi-autonomous territory’s local leadership.

Ma brings Taiwan to its knees

Christian Fan Jiang 范姜提昂

The government’s scandalous closed-door service trade agreement is creating anger and confusion. What should we do about President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九)?

The opposition’s attempt to have him recalled is less than energetic, and seeing someone with a 13 percent approval rating selling out the nation to his heart’s content begs the question: Is this really what Taiwan has come to? It is incomprehensible, unacceptable and unbearable.

Cross-strait human rights dilemma

Taipei Times Editorial

The most intriguing part of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng’s (陳光誠) trip to Taiwan so far was his brief visit to the legislature on Tuesday. Lawmakers tangled and disagreed on the podium, but chanted in sync to welcome Chen, without leaving their positions.

When later asked, Chen said he loved it because that was what democracy is all about — there will never be only one voice.

Director questions why Ma trumpeted rectal polyps, but veiled cross-strait deal

Taipei Times

Film director Chen Yu-hsun (陳玉勳) recently joined critics in denouncing what he called President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) “black-box operations” in signing a cross-strait service trade pact, questioning Ma’s motives for keeping the pact secret, while making known to the world that he has two colorectal polyps.

“Why keep the details of the cross-strait service trade agreement from the public and the Legislative Yuan, but announce to the world that two polyps had been found in the entrance of his anus?” Chen said in a message he posted on Facebook on Saturday night.

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