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High Court upholds not guilty verdict for Chen

Taipei Times

The Taiwan High Court yesterday acquitted former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) in an embezzlement case involving US$330,000 in secret diplomatic funds.

The Taipei District Court in June last year found Chen not guilty in the embezzlement case and the Taiwan High Court yesterday maintained the lower court’s ruling.

Sweeping Taiwan under the carpet

Taipei Times Editorial

Briefing the press corps prior to a visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) to Washington this week, US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon made extra efforts to avoid mentioning Taiwan, leading some media to conclude that Taiwan perhaps would not be on the agenda.

At a time when Beijing’s political weight is in the ascendancy and that of the US is increasingly in question, the last thing Washington should do is send signals of weakness — and avoiding a topic, in the hope that somehow Beijing would forget, is just that.

It is Time to Rid Taiwan or the Many Vestiges of the KMT's One Party State

Jerome F. Keating Ph.D.

In today's world, I know of no investment fund, insurance policies, trust funds or investment brokers that will guarantee their clients a guaranteed 18.5 percent interest income for a year, let alone for life. Yet this is what Taiwan is saddled with from the KMT's one-party state days. It is time for everyone to face up to not only this burden on all the tax-payers of Taiwan, but also to examine carefully how many of the injustices and privileges of the KMT one-party state days still exist in the country.

Ukraine — a mirror to Taiwan’s transition

Yang Shin-nan 楊信男

Every time Ukraine is mentioned, most people think of Chernobyl and the Orange Revolution, but the country has a lot in common with Taiwan, making a closer look worthwhile.

Ukraine’s independence was not followed by a period of transitional justice; power remained with the Communist Party until the Orange Revolution in 2004. The main players in the revolution were former president Viktor Yushchenko, President Viktor Yanukovych and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

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