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TSU files lawsuit over referendum

Taipei Times

The Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) yesterday filed an administrative lawsuit over the rejection by government agencies of its application to hold a referendum on a cross-strait trade pact, saying that the government’s current referendum proposal on a nuclear power plant adopted the same rationale as the TSU’s rejected initiative.

If President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration, which supports the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, was allowed to ask people if they support the suspension of the construction of the plant in a planned national referendum, the TSU proposal should not have been rejected for asking a question that was inconsistent with the proposer’s position, TSU Chairman Huang Kun-huei (黃昆輝) said after filing the lawsuit at the Taipei High Administrative Court.

Breaking: 110th Tibetan Self-immolation

Taiwan Tati Cultural & Educational Foundation

Undated photo of Kal Kyi

DHARAMSHALA, March 24: A Tibetan woman today set herself on fire in an apparent protest against China’s continuing occupation of Tibet.

Thirty-year-old Kal Kyi, a mother of four has set herself ablaze protesting near Jonang monastery in Zamthang in Eastern Tibet at 3:30 pm (local time).

Taiwanese scholars say Chen Shui-bian’s trial is political persecution

Michael Richardson

Taipei District Judge Hong Yin-Hua says the Ministry o Justice has failed to establish criteria for medical parole as ordered by the Control Yuan.

A new book, Judicial Justice and Human Rights—The Chen Shui-bian Case, details a pattern of political persecution say the Taiwanese scholars who co-authored the study. Published by the Taiwan Association of University Professors, the book is a collection of eight academic theses examining the circumstances of the prosecution of the former president of the Republic of China in-exile.

Nuclear experts lacking empathy

Li Shang-jen 李尚仁

People in favor of nuclear power often condescend to supporters of the anti-nuclear movement, saying: “You do not know what you’re talking about, you are not scientists, yours is an irrational fear.” By this, they mean that “you don’t have a background in nuclear power engineering, you don’t understand anything about nuclear power plants, so you are not qualified to have a say in the debate about nuclear safety.”

However, who is most qualified to talk about nuclear safety? Is it the nuclear power engineers? Are they really the highest authority on the dangers of nuclear power?

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