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

Phayul.com

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.

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

Michael Richardson

Chen Shui-bian wants to know why he was drugged by his ROC jailors

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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.

The ‘crimes’ of Nixon pale against those of Ma

James Wang 王景弘

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.

Chen Shui-bian returns to prison after stay in hospital

Taipei Times

Security officers drag away a man who was lying in the road and obstructing a van taking former president Chen Shui-bian from Taoyuan General Hospital back to Taipei Prison yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was yesterday returned to Taipei Prison after receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Taoyuan County.

Chen, who is serving a 17-and-a-half-year sentence for corruption, was granted a temporary release from Taipei Prison on March 6 for a medical checkup at Taoyuan General Hospital. Chen was found to be suffering from acute coronary syndrome and underwent a cardiac catheterization on Thursday.

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