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Tao protest against nuclear waste

Friday, 02 March 2012 11:15 Taipei Times

An activist from the Taiwan Green Party holds a photo of a five-year-old girl diagnosed with a brain tumor, wearing a mask in preparation for a brain scan, at a press conference in Taipei yesterday. Conservationist groups say they suspect the girl, a resident of Lanyu (Orchid Island), has been affected by the nuclear waste stored on the island.
Photo: Mandy Cheng, AFP

Displaying pictures of decaying nuclear waste barrels and a girl with a brain tumor, Tao Aborigines from Lanyu (蘭嶼, also known as Orchid Island) yesterday accused the government and Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) of trying to annihilate the tribe by storing nuclear waste on the island for three decades.

Academics condemn Hau comments on 228 Incident

Sunday, 26 February 2012 11:01 Taipei Times

A number of academics yesterday rebutted recent comments by former premier Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村), who questioned the number of people killed in the 228 Incident in 1947 tragedy.

In a forum hosted by the Taiwan Association of University Professors, association president Chang Yen-hsien (張炎憲) said Hau’s suggestion that only about 500 people were killed was not based on historical facts.

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A handout photograph taken on Thursday and released by the Japan Coast Guard shows a coast guard vessel, right, spraying water at a Taiwanese boat, bottom left, after the latter ventured near the disputed Diaoyutais, in the East China Sea.
Photo: AFP

A new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) raises a potentially difficult question for Taipei about its current relationship with Beijing.

“One issue for US policy concerns trends across the Taiwan Strait since 2008,” says the report, made public on Monday.

The report asks whether Taiwan’s moves to grow closer to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have “created a greater willingness” in Taipei to cooperate with Beijing on issues “in which it sees their interests as aligned.”