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Ma in ‘international legal suicide’

Taipei Times

President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) recent elaborations on the issue of Taiwan’s statehood, given the complex nature of the legal status of the Republic of China (ROC), was likely “international legal suicide” and a deception of the people of Taiwan, academics said in a forum last week.

Ma appears to have been self-conflicting and inconsistent in his interpretation of the cross-strait framework, Brad Roth, a professor of political science and law at Wayne State University in Michigan, told a forum organized by Taiwan Thinktank.

Unresolved sovereignty of Taiwan spawns new challenge to Republic of China (Photos)

Michael Richardson

Nieco Tsai and the Dalai Lama pray for Taiwan

The sixty-seven year control of Taiwan by the exiled Republic of China government has a new challenger on the scene boldly named Taiwan Government. The new group is being organized by two men, an American living in Taiwan and a Taiwanese living in America. Nieco Tsai said on May 30 that a formal announcement and ceremony will soon be scheduled to launch a future provisional government. Meanwhile Richard Hartzell is completing a week-long tour of the island today gathering support for the new organization.

Facing the Chen Shui-bian issue

Taipei Times Editorial

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been expecting this: while the “Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) issue” has been like a dark cloud hanging over the party for years, it knew that it would have to put an end to the complicated problem of the imprisoned former president.

And if the party tried to shrug off the issue, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) would not mind reminding the DPP again and again that Chen is serving a 20-year sentence for corruption and how his administration from 2000 to 2008, the first non-KMT administration after World War II, disappointed the Taiwanese people.

Student protesters storm legislature in Taipei

Taipei Times

Two security guards yesterday remove a protester who broke into the legislature in Taipei during a legislative review of a draft media anti-monopolization act.
Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times

Students from the Youth Alliance against Media Monsters yesterday held a lie-down, locked-arm protest at the legislature in Taipei, demanding that lawmakers on the Transportation Committee quickly pass a draft media anti-monopolization act.

Without obtaining permission to enter the legislature, about a dozen or so alliance members ran through a side entrance at about lunchtime and began a protest over the slow progress being made by legislators.

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