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Breaking: Two Tibetan teenagers burn selves to death

Thursday, 21 February 2013 07:36 Phayul.com
Tibetan self-immolator Rinchen, 17, in an undated photo.
Tibetan self-immolator Rinchen, 17, in an undated photo.

DHARAMSHALA, February 20: Two Tibetan teenagers set themselves on fire in Kyangtsa region of Zoege, eastern Tibet on February 19, protesting China’s continued occupation and repressive policies in Tibet.

Rinchen, 17 and Sonam Dhargey, 18 have succumbed to their burns.

According to the exile base of Kirti Monastery in Dharamshala, the two teenagers carried out their fiery protest at around 9:30 pm (local time) yesterday.

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US security firm report says PLA controls hackers

Wednesday, 20 February 2013 08:18 Taipei Times

The Internet security firm Mandiant suspects that the white 12-story building photographed yesterday in a northern suburb of Shanghai, China, is the home of a People’s Liberation Army-led hacking group.
Photo: AFP

China’s army controls hundreds if not thousands of virulent and cutting-edge hackers, according to a report issued yesterday by a US Internet security firm that traced a host of cyberattacks to an anonymous building in Shanghai.

Mandiant said its hundreds of investigations showed that groups hacking into US newspapers, government agencies, and companies “are based primarily in China and that the Chinese government is aware of them.”

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Newsflash

To promote transitional justice for Aborigines, the government should clearly define the scope of Aboriginal territories, lawmakers agreed unanimously at a legislative session.

The Legislative Yuan on Tuesday last week passed the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice (促進轉型正義條例), which is aimed at redressing injustices perpetrated by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) administration during the authoritarian era between Aug. 15, 1945, when the Japanese government surrendered in World War II, and Nov. 6, 1992, when the Period of National Mobilization Against the Communist Rebellion ended in Kinmen and Lienchiang counties.