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Five Tibetan monks sentenced for Drango protest

Dead body of Norpa Yonten who was shot dead during a peaceful protest by Chinese security personnel on January 23, 2012 in Drango.
Dead body of Norpa Yonten who was shot dead during a peaceful protest by Chinese security personnel on January 23, 2012 in Drango.

DHARAMSHALA, November 6: Five monks from the Drango Monastery in the Kardze region of eastern Tibet have been sentenced to varying prison terms of six to seven years for their alleged involvement in a major anti-China protest that erupted in the area earlier this year.

Dharamshala based rights group Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in a release today said their sentencing came after months of arbitrary detention and disappearance.

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Ex-premier says independence is key goal


>Former premier Yu Shyi-kun talks during a press conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Wang Min-wei, Taipei Times

Former premier Yu Shyi-kun yesterday said that China affairs are not the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) priority and that the party should focus on the economy, winning a legislative majority and securing its long-term goal of making Taiwan an independent, sovereign nation.

Yu also said he encouraged cross-strait engagement, but had reservations toward former premier Frank Hsieh’s (謝長廷) initiative of “constitutional one china” (憲法一中).

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Dissident warns DPP over plans to shift China policy


Chinese writer Yuan Hongbing speaks at a forum hosted by Beanstalk, a group founded by former Presidential Office secretary-general Chen Shih-meng yesterday.
Photo: Li Hsin-fang, Taipei Times

A Chinese dissident yesterday warned the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) over a planned shift in position on its China policy and said former premier Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) would lead the party down a path of “political suicide” in his similar attempts to shift plans.

“Beijing has two grand strategies for its absorption of Taiwan. First, economic integration goes before political integration. Second, making the Chinese Nationalist Party [KMT] another Chinese Communist Party [CCP] and the DPP another KMT,” Yuan Hongbing (袁紅冰) told a forum hosted by Beanstalk, a group founded by former secretary-general of the Presidential Office Chen Shih-meng (陳師孟).

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Breaking: Tibet continues to burn, Another Tibetan sets self on fire

DHARAMSHALA, November 4: In photos and confirmed reports coming out of Tibet, another Tibetan set himself on fire this morning in an apparent protest against China's continued occupation of Tibet.

This latest incident of self-immolation protest, the 63rd in Tibet since 2009, is being reported from the Rebkong region of Amdo, eastern Tibet.

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Newsflash

The controversy over President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) US green card status flared up again after recent cables released by WikiLeaks ignited a fresh round of accusations between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday.

The cables, dated between February and June 2008, recently released by WikiLeaks showed that KMT heavyweights had visited the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) and asked the US to clearly explain Ma’s green card status before the 2008 presidential election.

After Ma defeated DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (謝長廷), who had accused Ma of still holding a green card, in the 2008 presidential election, KMT politicians expressed their appreciation for the US’ impartiality toward the “dirty tricks” that the DPP had staged.