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Support for Chen Shui-bian grows with disclosure of prison psychiatric drugging

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The beginning of Chen Shui-bian's prison ordeal was caught on camera

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Chen Shui-bian, former President of the Republic of China in-exile, is serving a lengthy sentence for corruption in Taiwan. Revelations that Chen was drugged without his knowledge or consent by ROC authorities with a psychiatric medication while in prison have shaken Chen’s many supporters.

Thousands protest in Rebkong, Sonam Dhargey cremated

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The charred body of Sonam Dhargey covered with 'khatags' offered by thousands of gathered Tibetans at the Dolma square in Rebkong, eastern Tibet on March 17, 2012.

DHARAMSHALA, March 17: Details are finally emerging on the self-immolation protest that took place in Rebkong, eastern Tibet earlier today.

The 30th Tibetan to set his body on fire demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile and freedom in Tibet since 2009, has been identified as Sonam Dhargey, a 44-year-old farmer.

Beef ban not against WTO rules: source

Taipei Times

A researcher puts a meat sample in a machine to test if it contains a banned additive, ractopamine, at a
laboratory in Taipei yesterday.
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Taiwan has neither broken any WTO rules nor breached any commitments by failing to go ahead with a plan to establish maximum residue levels for the livestock feed additive ractopamine, of which the organization was first notified in 2007, a WTO official said.

Breaking: Yet another self-immolation marks a year of fiery protests

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A file photo of monk Lobsang Tsultrim. (Photo/Kirti monastery)

DHARAMSHALA, March 16: Exactly a year after monk Phuntsog set himself on fire demanding the return of the Dalai Lama from exile and freedom in Tibet, another Tibetan has set himself on fire today.

Lobsang Tsultrim, a 20-year-old monk from the besieged Kirti monastery in the Ngaba region of eastern Tibet set his body on fire at around 5 pm local time.

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