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Nation confirms its first case of H7N9 avian flu

Taipei Times

A picture made available yesterday shows the Bali Geese Farm in Bali, New Taipei City, on April 3.
Photo: David Chang, EPA

A 53-year-old Taiwanese man who had worked in China’s Jiangsu Province has tested positive for the H7N9 avian flu virus, the Central Epidemic Command Center said yesterday.

The man, who is now in serious condition, is receiving treatment, including intubation, in a negative-pressure quarantine ward, the center said.

Breaking: Twin self-immolation protests in Tibet, Toll rises to 117

Phayul.com

Tibetan self-immolators Lobsang Dawa, 20 (left) and Kunchok Woeser, 23 (right) who set themselves on fire protesting China's occupation in Zoege region of eastern Tibet on April 24, 2013.

DHARAMSHALA, April 24: In reports coming just in, two young Tibetan monks of the Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Monastery in Zoege, eastern Tibet set themselves on fire today protesting China’s continued occupation of Tibet.

The exile seat of the Kirti Monastery in Dharamshala identified the two monks as Lobsang Dawa, 20 and Kunchok Woeser, 22.

Chen Shui-bian’s return to prison led to suicide attempt and provokes outrage

Michael Richardson

Chen Shui-bian recognized by Republic of Tuvula on postage stamp

The sudden pre-dawn transfer of Chen Shui-bian to Pei-Teh clinic at Taichung Prison from his locked psychiatric room at Veterans Hospital in Taipei last week triggered a suicide attempt by Chen after he learned the news, generated a street demonstration, spurred the Democratic Progressive Party to protest, and was condemned on April 22 by the Human Rights Action Center as “slow-motion murder”.

The Madness of Ma: Slow-Motion State Violence in Taiwan and the Murder of Chen Shui-bian

Jack Healey

The Human Rights Action Center has been involved for seven months in a investigation into the incarceration conditions and medical care of former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian. We sent a longtime Asia researcher, Harreld Dinkins, and Hans Wahl, a researcher with considerable expertise on prison standards and the imperatives for prisoner medical care to Taiwan last year. What we discovered was that, while the President's material conditions of incarceration were close enough to international standards that an argument might be dismissed, that his medical care had been systematically denied or inadequate such that there were conditions that emerged that were previously non-existent and conditions that were made considerably worse and permanent.

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