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Amis protest plans for resort on ancestral land

Sunday, 06 November 2011 05:14 Taipei Times

Amis men and women from A’tolan (Dulan) Village in Donghe Township, Taitung County, hold a protest outside the legislature in Taipei yesterday against a build-operate--transfer holiday resort project on the Pacific coast.

Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei Times

Shouting slogans, singing traditional songs and performing traditional dances, dozens of young Amis Aborigines from the village of A’tolan yesterday gathered in front of the Legislative Yuan, accusing the government of planning development projects in their traditional domains without first getting their consent.

The Amis protesters — mostly young people — were upset over plans by the East Coast National Scenic Area Administration Headquarters to invite private corporations to build a holiday resort along the A’tolan coast, which is administratively known as Dulan Village (都蘭) in Taitung County’s Donghe Township (東河), through a build-operate-transfer (BOT) plan.

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Japan urges Taiwan to sign more FTAs

Saturday, 05 November 2011 09:27 Taipei Times

Taiwan should sign free-trade agreements (FTA) with more countries to enhance its investment competitiveness, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry said in Taipei (JCCI) yesterday.

“Taiwan tends to rely highly on China,” JCCI chairman Kyota Kishimoto said after a press conference to present an annual position paper to the Council for Economic -Planning and Development (CEPD).

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Newsflash

US Representative Scott Garrett has introduced a resolution to the US Congress declaring that Taiwan deserves membership in the UN.

Garrett, a Republican, did so as the UN General Assembly opened its annual session in New York.

“Year after year, the UN has failed to offer the 23 million people of Taiwan and their freely elected government representation on the world stage,” Garrett said. “The world body can no longer act as if the unelected communist government of the People’s Republic of China truly represents the interests of Taiwan. Currently, Taiwan is the only democratically governed nation in the world that does not enjoy a single vote in the General Assembly.”