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

The beginning of Chen Shui-bian's prison ordeal was caught on
camera
The beginning of Chen Shui-bian's prison ordeal was caught on camera
Credits: ATF/Getty

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.

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Thousands protest in Rebkong, Sonam Dhargey cremated

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.
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.

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Beef ban not against WTO rules: source

A researcher puts a meat sample in a machine to test if it contains a banned additive, ractopamine, at a
laboratory in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: AFP

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.

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

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

The Control Yuan yesterday dismissed media speculation that it planned to censure President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) over the Taipei City Government’s decision to grant Yuanta Group (元大集團) permission to build a 23-story building near the president’s residence during Ma’s term as Taipei mayor.

“It is true that we are ­investigating this case, and we also found some problems as alleged by the print media [Chinese-language Next Magazine],” Control Yuan member Ma Yi-kung (馬以工) told reporters.