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US bid to seize Chen properties raises queries

Taipei Times

The US may have been influenced by pressure from Taipei in its decision to seize properties in New York and Virginia that had allegedly been bought with bribes paid to the former first family, a Taiwan-born lawyer said.

The US Department of Justice has filed civil forfeiture complaints against former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and his wife, Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍), based almost entirely on information from President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration and before Taiwanese courts have made a final ruling in the case, said Yang Tai-yu, who now runs a law practice in Iowa.

CNNiReport: When the Excavators Came to the Rice Fields

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In the eyes of farmers, their land is like life itself, painstakingly farming and protecting the land. Sadly, they are sometimes faced with terrible treatment.

In order to develop Jhunan Science Park, MiaoLi County government located in central Taiwan, plan to expropriate the farmland in Dapu. The government valued the land using the government assessed and publicly announced land value of the price, a sum of money that falls far below the market value. Some local farmers do not want to accept this expropriation order and naturally unwilling to hand over land rights.

Tosh, Yeh share views on freedom

Taipei Times

The daughter of a top Uighur activist and the wife of a Taiwanese democracy pioneer yesterday shared stories of the Uighur and Taiwanese struggles for freedom.

Raela Tosh, daughter of World Uyghur Congress (WUC) president Rebiya Kadeer, met former vice premier Yeh Chu-lan (葉菊蘭) during a visit to a museum dedicated to her husband, Deng Nan-jung (鄭南榕), on the last day of Tosh’s four-day stay in Taiwan.

What Taiwan needs to fight corruption

Taiwan News Editorial

Taiwan's chronic affliction of corruption and graft has resurfaced as an urgent political issue, but whether the decision by President and ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou to set up a specialized anti-corruption "Clean Government Administration" under the justice ministry is the best or even a feasible prescription is open to question.

In a high - profile news conference at the Office of the President Tuesday, Ma shook his fist to display his resolve to realize his campaign promise to purge corruption and graft from our political system.

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