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Taiwan thanks Trump for jet deal

Tuesday, 20 August 2019 05:25 Taipei Times

F-16 jets fly during an air force open house event in Hualien on Sept. 23, 2017.
Photo: EPA-EFE

The government yesterday expressed its appreciation to US President Donald Trump for approving the sale of 66 F-16 jets to Taiwan amid increasing threats from Beijing.

HK protesters march on 11th weekend

Monday, 19 August 2019 04:37 Taipei Times

A protester, who is wearing an eye patch in solidarity with a woman who was reportedly injured in the eye by a beanbag fired by police, attends a march in Hong Kong yesterday.
Photo: AP

Heavy rain fell on tens of thousands of umbrella-toting protesters yesterday as they marched from a packed park and filled a major road in Hong Kong, where mass pro-democracy demonstrations have become a regular weekend activity this summer.

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2015-12-26 Taiwanese Shrine Initation & Marytr-Spirit Enshrine Ceremony

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The burning image of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese monk who self-immolated at a busy Saigon road intersection on June 11, 1963. Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Roman Catholic government.

DHARAMSHALA, February 17: In a powerful message of solidarity, Vietnam’s Supreme Buddhist Patriarch, currently held under house arrest, expressed his support for the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people’s struggle for freedom.

The Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, in a letter dated February 11 called the ongoing human rights violation in Tibet and the recent wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, a “challenge to all humanity”.