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Ramsey Clark asks government to free Chen Shui-bian after visit to prison


Former Democratic Progressive Party legislator Chai Trong-rong, left, looks on yesterday as former US attorney-general Ramsey Clark, second left, shakes hands with jailed former president Chen Shui-bian’s supporters at the gate of Taipei Prison in Gueishan Township, Taoyuan County.
Photo: Yu Juei-jen, Taipei Times

Former US attorney-general Ramsey Clark, a longtime advocate for Taiwanese democracy, yesterday visited former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) in Taipei Prison and said that the government should release Chen immediately.

Clark visited Chen in the afternoon, accompanied by former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Chai Trong-rong (蔡同榮) and Chen’s son, Chen Chih-chung (陳致中).

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Tsai files lawsuit over Yu Chang smear


Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chen Chi-mai and lawyers Wellington Koo and Lien Yuan-long, right to left, speaking in Taipei yesterday, announce former DPP chairperson Tsai Ing-wen’s lawsuit against Vice President Wu Den-yih and former Council for Economic Planning and Development Minister Christina Liu over the Yu Chang case.
Photo: Wang Min-wei, Taipei Times

Former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday filed a lawsuit against Vice President Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) and former Council of Economic Planning and Development minister Christina Liu (劉憶如) over the pair’s allegations during the presidential election campaign that Tsai had played an improper role in the formation of a biotechnology company.

Tsai filed the lawsuit with the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office Special Investigation Division (SID) against Wu, who is currently visiting Central America, and Liu for violations of the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Act (總統副總統選舉罷免法), accusing them of spreading rumors or false statements for the purpose of impeding a candidate’s election chances, Tsai’s lawyers Wellington Koo (顧立雄) and Lien Yuan-long (連元龍) told a press conference.

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Fearing protests, China issues notice barring self-immolations at horse racing festival

Chinese armed forces in full riot gear deployed during the Machu
horse racing festival in eastern Tibet on August 12 to deter public
protests. (Photo/TCHRD)
Chinese armed forces in full riot gear deployed during the Machu horse racing festival in eastern Tibet on August 12 to deter public protests. (Photo/TCHRD)

DHARAMSHALA, August 21: Chinese authorities issued a notice barring Tibetans from setting themselves on fire and deployed hundreds of armed forces during a recently concluded horse racing festival in eastern Tibet.

With the wave of self-immolations continuing to burn across Tibet, local Chinese authorities took stringent measures ahead of the annual horse racing festival at Machu (Chinese: Maqu) in Kanlho, Gansu on August 12 to prevent public protests.

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Japanese reconnects with his Taiwan roots


Kazuya Shimizu yesterday hugs Mika Tanaka, the lady who helped him locate his place of birth in Hualien County.
Photo: Yang Yi-chung, Taipei Times

Born in Taiwan, but forced to leave his home after Japan lost World War II, Kazuya Shimizu yesterday finally realized his dream of revisiting the site of the village in Hualien County where he was born.

The 70-year-old Shimizu is a wansei, the Japanese term used to describe someone born or who grew up in Taiwan and is a descendant of Japanese immigrants who had come to Taiwan during the Japanese occupation from 1895 to 1945.

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Newsflash


An injured military police officer is being taken to National Taiwan University Hospital after being attacked by a man wielding a samurai sword outside the Presidential Office Building yesterday.
Photo: Lee Hsin-fang, Taipei Times

A man wielding a Japanese sword yesterday slashed a military police officer guarding the Presidential Office Building, authorities said.