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Visiting Su touts closer ties with Japan

Taipei Times

Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Su Tseng-chang, left, gestures while walking along a sidewalk yesterday outside the National Diet Building in Tokyo, Japan, where he is visiting to discuss bilateral relations and Asia-Pacific security and stability.
Photo: Lee Hsin-fang, Taipei Times

Taiwan-Japan relations could be strengthened to promote regional stability because both countries share the values of democracy, freedom and human rights, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said in Tokyo yesterday.

“The DPP hopes that Taiwan and Japan can strengthen their bilateral partnership as members of a democratic alliance, which would make the Asia-Pacific a region of security, stability and prosperity by promoting dialogue and closer engagement,” Su said on the second day of his five-day visit to Japan.

China arrests uncle of Tibetan self-immolator for part in funeral procession

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Tibetan self-immolator Dorjee Lhundup, who passed away in his fiery protest on November 4, 2012, seen here in an undated photo.

DHARAMSHALA, February 4: Even as China is receiving widespread condemnation for its sentencing of eight Tibetans over “crimes” related to self-immolations, reports have come in of another arrest in connection with the ongoing wave of fiery protests.

Continuing its crackdown on relatives of self-immolators, Chinese authorities in Rebkong region of eastern Tibet detained an uncle of Dorjee Lhundup, a Tibetan farmer who set himself on fire in protest against Chinese rule in November last.

Farmers, activists protest against globalization

Taipei Times

A woman rests her head on her hands during a protest by farming rights advocates on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times

Hundreds of people, including farmers and farming activists from Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan and Malaysia, yesterday rallied against the globalization of agriculture on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office, protesting against the government’s plans to lift more bans on agricultral imports.

“We gather here today to express our anger, we want to tell the government that we’re fed up with their compromises on our food sovereignty, it’s a serious problem that our food self-sufficiency has dropped to 33 percent now,” Taiwan Rural Front (TRF) spokeswoman Tsai Pei-hui (蔡培慧) told the crowd at the rally. “You’ve put our dining tables and refrigerators in other people’s homes, we want to keep them in our own places.”

Law journal editor Huang Yueh-hong says Chen case is political prosecution (Photos)

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Huang Yueh-hong says Chen Shui-bian case was mishandled by the ROC courts

A small but influential bi-weekly newspaper, Rule of Law Times, specializes in news of the courts. The newspaper’s primary readers are judges and lawyers. Editor Huang Yueh-hong is an authority on judicial misbehavior and tells it as he sees it. Huang granted an exclusive interview in New Taipei City to discuss the trial of Chen Shui-bian. The imprisoned former president of the Republic of China in-exile is serving a lengthy sentence for alleged corruption.

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