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Fire rages on: Tibetan monk dies in fiery protest

Phayul.com

New Delhi, March 29: Even as news of Jamphel Yeshi's death began to spread around the world, another young Tibetan in the beleagured Ngaba region of Tibet passed away in a fiery protest on March 28.

The exile base of Kirti monastery in Dharamshala said that Sherab, a 20-year-old monk set himself on fire in the main street of Cha township raising protests against the Chinese government.

Knowingly walking right into a trap

Taipei Times Editorial

How far are Taiwan and China from each other? On a map, the distance is only about 125km from Hsinchu to Pingtan Island in China’s Fujian Province, but the controversy between the two sides over the Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Zone makes it obvious that the psychological gap is far greater than the physical gap.

American Citizens for Taiwan calls for human rights for Chen after drugging

Michael Richardson

ACT calls for human rights for Chen Shui-bian in prison
Credits: Getty

American Citizens for Taiwan has issued a call for respect of human rights in Taiwan following the recent revelation that imprisoned Chen Shui-bian was drugged without his knowledge by the exiled Republic of China government he once led.

‘One country’ remarks indicate dysfunction: DPP

Taipei Times

Democratic Progressive Party legislators Su Chen-ching, Pan Men-an and Tsai Chi-chang, left to right, hold a press conference yesterday at the legislature in Taipei accusing President Ma Ying-jeou of selling out Taiwan’s sovereignty.
Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) are reverting Taiwan to a single-party state with their ill-conceived proposal that cross-strait relations be conducted under the concept of “one country, two areas (一國兩區),” Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers said yesterday.

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