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Tsai ends tour with huge rally in Taipei

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is determined to win the presidential election in January to save people from an unhappy nation with a bad economy, DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) told a rally in Taipei yesterday to conclude her 11-day campaign trip.

“We are going to march toward the Presidential Office. We are determined to return to power in 2012,” the presidential candidate told tens of thousands of screaming supporters on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office.

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Chen found guilty of receiving bribes

Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was yesterday sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Taiwan High Court for taking bribes in relation to a series of bank mergers during his eight years in power, fined NT$180 million (US$5.95 million) and stripped of his civil rights for nine years.

His wife, Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍), was sentenced to 11 years and fined NT$102 million in the same case and stripped of her civil rights for eight years.

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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.