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Scientist warns of dangers of Taiwan nuclear mishap

Taipei Times

A Japanese nuclear scientist and researcher says that if a nuclear accident occurred at one of northern Taiwan’s nuclear power plants, about 30,000 people would die within a short period of time and up to 7 million people could develop cancer from exposure to the nuclear radiation.

Hiroaki Koide, a nuclear reactor specialist who has been an assistant professor at Kyoto University’s Research Reactor Institute since 1974, spoke yesterday at a civic nuclear-free forum and met environmental protection groups in Taipei over the weekend.

Breaking: Another Tibetan burns to death in protest against China, Fourth self-immolation this month

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Lhamo Kyab in an undated photo.

DHARAMSHALA, October 20: Another Tibetan has set himself on fire today in protest against China’s continued occupation of Tibet in Bora, Sangchu region of Amdo, eastern Tibet.

Lhamo Kyab, 27, father of two young daughters, today set himself on fire near the Bora Monastery at around 2 pm (local time) in Sangchu district. According to eyewitnesses, he succumbed to his burn injuries at the site of his protest.

According to Sonam, a Tibetan living in south India with close contacts in the region, Lhamo Kyab set himself on fire on a road near the Bora Monastery.

Time to wake up to espionage threat

Taipei Times Editorial

News about Taiwanese spying for China has surfaced recently, this time in a case of industrial espionage involving local flat-panel maker AU Optronics (AUO). As President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) promote ever-closer business and trade relations across the Taiwan Strait, the nation needs to seriously consider the threat of Beijing’s interference in and potential influence upon Taiwanese companies doing business in China, and even upon firms operating in Taiwan.

Aboriginal copyrights to be reviewed next year

Taipei Times

Applications by Aboriginal tribes to have the ownership of original Aboriginal naming rights, intellectual property and other items returned to the tribes, in accordance with the Indigenous Peoples Intellectual Property Act (原住民族傳統智慧創作保護條例), are to be reviewed by March next year.

According to Huang Chu-cheng (黃居正), Institute of Law for Science and Technology assistant professor at Tsing Hua University — the facility commissioned to review the applications — the nation’s 14 officially recognized Aboriginal tribes have from earlier this year gradually started to apply for protection of their respective tribal intellectual property.

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