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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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ROC drugging of Chen Shui-bian creates problem for Obama administration

Chen Shui-bian wants to know why he was drugged by his ROC
jailors
Chen Shui-bian wants to know why he was drugged by his ROC jailors
Credits: 
ATF/Getty

The recent revelation that former President of the Republic of China in-exile Chen Shui-bian was administered a psychiatric drug without his knowledge by prison doctors creates a headache for Barack Obama.  Chen returned to prison Tuesday from a week-long hospitalization for a heart condition where the drugging was discovered.

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The ‘crimes’ of Nixon pale against those of Ma

The use of the TaiMed Biologics Inc case in the lead-up to the Jan. 14 presidential and legislative elections by President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) inner circle has been called Ma’s Watergate. However, it is much more serious than that.

Ma pretended that he was innocent prior to the election, but the appointment of Christina Liu (劉憶如) as minister of finance and Lin Yih-shih (林益世) as Cabinet secretary-general was a blatant attempt to interfere in the judicial process as it relates to the TaiMed case.

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Newsflash

The Philippines and New Zealand have begun negotiating an agreement that would allow them to deploy troops on each other’s soil, the two countries said yesterday, as concerns over maritime tensions with China grow.

Manila has been seeking to boost defense ties in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond in the face of China’s growing confidence in asserting its claims over the hot spot South China Sea.

A first round of talks was held in Manila on Thursday last week between the Philippines and New Zealand’s defense departments, they said in a joint statement.