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Secretary Clinton urges Chinese FM to engage in dialogue with the Dalai Lama: Reports

Saturday, 14 July 2012 09:40 Phayul.com
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shakes hand with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi before their talks in Phnom Penh on Thursday.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shakes hand with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi before their talks in Phnom Penh on Thursday.

DHARAMSHALA, July 13: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reportedly urged Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi to engage in dialogue with exile Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

Clinton and Yang met Thursday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for an annual forum of regional foreign ministers on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit.

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China, Taiwan left out of naval drill

Friday, 13 July 2012 09:48 Taipei Times

Although Taiwan and China have both been left out of the world’s largest naval exercise hosted by the US, the reasons for their exclusion are very different, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said yesterday.

The biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) maritime military exercises under way in Hawaii are the largest since their inception in 1971, with 22 countries, from Japan to Tonga and from Russia to Chile, participating in a five-week series of drills.

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Taiwan Society president Chang Yen-hsien speaks at a forum in Taipei on Sept. 13.
Photo: Wang Min-wei, Taipei Times

Senior Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members, friends and fans lamented the death of former Academia Historica president Chang Yen-hsien (張炎憲), who passed away during a research trip to the US on Friday evening Taipei time.

“Thank you, Professor Chang, thank you for what you have done for Taiwan, it was because of your insistence on researching the 228 Incident and White Terror that the younger generation are able to get to know more about this island from a Taiwan-oriented perspective, and write about our own history,” DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said on her official Facebook page. “May you rest in peace, we will always remember you.”