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Chen’s family cites stroke in parole plea

Sunday, 16 September 2012 08:20 Taipei Times

Chen Chih-chung, son of former president Chen Shui-bian, speaks to the press yesterday, rejecting the Ministry of Justice’s judgements about his father’s health and saying that any medical issues should be examined and evaluated by medical experts.
Photo: Li Jung-ping, Taipei Times

The family of jailed former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) yesterday urged authorities to pay more attention to Chen’s health problems, in light of the fact that he has previously suffered a stroke.

Chen Chih-chung (陳致中), son of the former president, said a team of neurosurgeons and urologists from major medical centers should be allowed to examine his father.

Senator sounds off to Beijing about Oregon mural

Saturday, 15 September 2012 08:54 Taipei Times

A US senator has warned China to back off in the growing confrontation over a mural painted on a brick wall in Corvallis, Oregon, that advocates independence for Taiwan and Tibet.

“The mural will remain so long as the Americans who painted and host it wish it to remain,” Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote in a letter to Chinese Ambassador to the US Zhang Yesui (張業遂) lecturing China on the freedom of speech.

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Contacts with China’s military would likely be the first to suffer if Beijing moves to retaliate over upcoming US arms sales to Taiwan — the latest in a flurry of disputes elevating tensions between Washington and Beijing.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu (馬朝旭) warned that the Obama administration risked damaging ties with China if it proceeds with an arms package deal, which is likely to include Black Hawk helicopters and Patriot missiles.