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Senator sounds off to Beijing about Oregon mural

Taipei Times

A US senator has warned China to back off in the growing confrontation over a mural painted on a brick wall in Corvallis, Oregon, that advocates independence for Taiwan and Tibet.

“The mural will remain so long as the Americans who painted and host it wish it to remain,” Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote in a letter to Chinese Ambassador to the US Zhang Yesui (張業遂) lecturing China on the freedom of speech.

Boston activists keep Taiwan issue alive at Harvard Square

Michael Richardson

Taiwanese-American activists in Boston keep Taiwan’s unresolved international status before the public. Taiwan Outreach is comprised of members of the Massachusetts chapter of Formosan Association for Public Affairs and others.

Taiwan Outreach holds monthly vigils for Taiwan at the Harvard Square subway station right outside the entrance of Harvard University. Thousands of students, shoppers, and commuters are reached by the vigils that include musical performances. Other activities of the group are Congressional office visits and screenings of films.

New calls for medical parole for Chen

Taipei Times

A frail-looking former president Chen Shui-bian sits in a wheelchair as he goes to receive medical treatment in Taoyuan County on Thursday.
Photo: Li Jung-ping, Taipei Times

Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) has had a stroke and has a serious mental disorder, a group of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers and medical experts said yesterday, renewing calls for Chen to be released from prison for medical treatment and the immediate inclusion of a psychiatrist on Chen’s medical team.

“Judging from Chen’s declining condition and the obvious fact that the Taipei Prison had been dealing with his health carelessly, we think that a release for medical treatment is a necessity,” DPP Legislator Hsu Tain-tsair (許添財) told a press conference.

Su and Tsai visit A-bian, call for medical parole

Taipei Times

Supporters of former president Chen Shui-bian protest his innocence yesterday outside Taoyuan General Hospital In Taoyuan County where he is being treated for dysuria.
Photo: CNA

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) and former DPP chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday visited former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) at a hospital in Taoyuan County and called for Chen’s release for medical treatment.

Chen, who is serving a 17-and-a-half-year sentence in Taipei Prison for corruption, was sent to Taoyuan General Hospital on Wednesday night after complaining of dysuria, or pain when urinating.

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