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China tunes in airwave propaganda

Driving around Pingtung County in a blue delivery truck, one could be forgiven for thinking that all you would hear on the radio would be Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese) talk shows and Taiwanese folk songs. In Pingtung and Greater Kaohsiung, you don’t expect to hear radio programs from China, so what are they doing on the air?

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Taiwan Solidarity Union plans for people to egg ‘Ma’


Taiwan Solidarity Union members show eggs with President Ma Ying-jeou’s name written on them yesterday during a press conference in Taipei. They announced their intention to pelt images of the president during his May 20 inauguration ceremony.
Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times

The Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) and civic groups yesterday urged supporters to participate in various protests to be held around President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) inauguration ceremony on May 20 to voice their discontent with the administration.

At a massive protest at Huashan 1914 Creative Park, arranged by the TSU for the morning of May 20, people will be invited to throw eggs at a giant LCD screen broadcasting Ma’s inauguration ceremony, TSU Chairman Huang Kun-huei (黃昆輝) said.

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Beijing seizes Tibetan nomad land for Chinese migrants

DHARAMSHALA, May 7: In another instance of forced removal of Tibetan nomads from their grasslands, Chinese authorities have grabbed land from three Tibetan nomadic villages in eastern Tibet.

According to sources in the region, the land confiscated from the Setong, Dragmar, and Seru villages will be given to thousands of new Chinese migrants.

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China, Foxconn, Apple, and the Tipping Point

"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." In China, the Bo Xilai scandal continues to unravel and with it the continued cracks in the nation's economic strength and anti-corruption walls are getting wider and wider. Some pundits still cry "Run to China, it will become a responsible stakeholder and will still solve the manufacturing problems of nations." But others are finally beginning to have their doubts. For as the cracks widen, the realization dawns that peaceful-rising China is in reality an "Enron China" in the making, an upcoming disaster replete with the corruption, shady deals and cooked books that previously blew up in the faces of those who once touted Enron as the model to be emulated. "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold," this line from Yeats's, The Second Coming, now takes on greater relevance.

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Newsflash

The US allowed a Republic of China (ROC) military plane from Taiwan to transit its territory for the first time in 30 years, officials said yesterday.

The cargo plane made a stop inside US territory while carrying relief supplies to Haiti, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) said.