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Keelung plans to retire Chiang Kai-shek statues


Relatives of people killed by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) troops when they landed in Keelung following the 228 Incident in 1947 yesterday throw flowers into the city’s harbor to commemorate the victims
Photo: Lin Hsin-han, Taipei Times

The Keelung City Government plans to remove statues that depict Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) from the city’s schools and public offices, Keelung Mayor Lin Yu-chang (林右昌) said yesterday.

Casting flowers into the harbor in Keeling, hundreds of people — mostly families of victims of the March 8, 1947, massacre by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) troops — gathered to remember the tragedy.

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Pro-independence candidate evokes legacy of Su Beng


Pro-independence activist Su Beng, right, helps Na Su-phok put on a denim jacket that Su gave him in a symbolic gesture of passing on the torch for systemic reform at a media event in Taipei on Friday at which Na announced his decision to run for a legislative seat in his hometown, Taoyuan’s Taoyuan District.
Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times

Student activist Na Su-phok (藍士博) evoked the legacy of prior Taiwanese independence advocates as he announced his intention to enter the legislative race next year.

A doctoral student of Taiwanese history at National Chengchi University, Na has built a decade of experience in grassroots activism, with a strong focus on promoting Taiwanese cultural identity through works of history and literature.

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Beijing police arrested dozens of Christian worshipers yesterday from a “house church” — one not formally recognized by the government — when they tried to pray outdoors, a rights group said. They sang hymns and said prayers as police loaded them onto waiting buses in Beijing’s western Hai-dian District, the US-based Christian rights group China Aid said in a statement, citing witnesses.

“The Beijing authorities have again demonstrated their total disregard of their citizens’ constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right to religious freedom,” China Aid founder and president Bob Fu (傅希秋) said in the statement.