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China defends its military spending

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:10:39 +0000

From the Taipei Times, “In an obvious reference to Taiwan, General Xu Caihou (徐才厚), vice chairman of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Central Military Commission, told a Washington audience on Monday that China had to modernize and build its armed forces because the country ‘has yet to realize complete unification.’”

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Industry benefits from green tax cut

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:05:58 +0000

The Taipei Times reports on a tax cut on carbon dioxide emissions. “The Cabinet’s Tax Reform Committee, which is to hold final discussions on green tax reform on Monday, is set to slash a proposed tax on carbon dioxide emissions from NT$2,000 per tonne to NT$750 per tonne to quell industry resistance.

Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research president Daigee Shaw (蕭代基), who was commissioned to study the issue, said yesterday that he had no choice but to make concessions to facilitate reform.”

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Government keeps mum after alleged missile test

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:30:33 +0000

[Taipei Times]– Taiwan has carried out a major missile exercise less than a fortnight after China showed off advanced ballistic weaponry in a massive National Day parade in Beijing, local Chinese-language newspapers reported yesterday. The Presidential Office, however, declined to confirm or deny the reports.

Missiles capable of striking major Chinese cities were launched on Tuesday from the tightly guarded Jioupeng (九鵬) base in Pingtung County, both the pro-opposition Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister paper) and the pro-government United Daily News reported.

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High Court hears Chen detention case

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:16:02 +0000

[Taipei Times]– The Taiwan High Court yesterday held a second detention hearing on arguments from prosecutors and former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) lawyers to determine whether Chen should remain in detention. The hearing was continuing at press time.

After the High Court’s decision on Sept. 24 to keep the former president behind bars for another three months, until Dec. 23, Chen and his attorneys filed an appeal to the Supreme Court.

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Military prepares as Parma approaches

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:52:13 +0000

[Taipei Times]– Taiwan yesterday issued a sea warning for Typhoon Parma, which is expected to affect Taiwan after hitting the Philippines.

By 9pm yesterday, the eye of Parma was 420km southeast of Oluanbi (鵝鑾鼻) Taiwan’s southern tip, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said. Moving in a northwesterly direction at 10kph, Parma packs center winds of 137kph and gusts of 173kph.

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Advisers’ trips to Beijing criticized

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:08:46 +0000

[Taipei Times]– The Presidential Office said yesterday it was inappropriate for presidential advisers to attend Beijing’s celebrations marking 60 years of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule in China, but stopped short of denouncing or threatening to punish them.

Presidential Office Spokesman Wang Yu-chi (王郁琦) said that he had been informed that the three presidential advisers in question were indeed in Beijing, but they “should not be there to attend the celebration events.”

“The timing of their visits may be debatable, but it is indeed inappropriate if they did attend the celebration activities,” Wang said.

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MOJ to probe Chen ‘US agent’ claim

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:39:34 +0000

[Taipei Times]– Minister of Justice Wang Ching-feng (王清峰) said yesterday that prosecutors would look into allegations by former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) attorney that Chen was an “agent” of the US government.

Wang made the remarks at a meeting of the legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee.

She was referring to the former president’s petition last week for the US to intervene as the “principal occupying power of Taiwan” to seek his immediate release and restore his civil and human rights.

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High Court keeps Chen behind bars

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:54:18 +0000

The Taiwan High Court yesterday ruled to keep former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) behind bars for another three months, on the grounds that he might flee the country if released.

At 8:45pm last night, an hour later than scheduled, Presiding Judge Teng Chen-chiu (鄧振球) announced the appeals court’s decision to extend Chen’s detention because he was suspected of committing serious crimes and, as a former president, he has more channels to flee the country than an ordinary citizen.

The judges also expressed concern about the large amount of money and other assets the former first family possesses overseas.

Chen had been listening to the judges’ decision while standing up. However, after hearing the judges’ decision, he fell back limply into his chair, looking dejected.

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Chen charged over diplomatic funds

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:40:32 +0000

Prosecutors yesterday issued another wave of indictments against former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), charging him and four others with embezzlement in a case involving classified diplomatic projects.

The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s Special Investigation Panel (SIP), in charge of probing the former president’s corruption and money laundering cases, said it had completed its investigations.

Prosecutors allege that public funds earmarked for diplomatic relations were embezzled by Chen, former National Security Council secretary-general Chiou I-jen (邱義仁) and former deputy foreign minister Michael Kau (高英茂), as well as two others whose bank accounts were used in the process.

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Sixty villages marked for relocation after typhoon

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:45:56 +0000

The government is pressing for unprecedented mass relocation of residents in high-risk areas to head off any future problems with flooding and mudslides after coming under fire for its slow response to Typhoon Morakot last month.

The central government, still reeling from the deadly typhoon that hurt the reputation of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), aims to relocate 60 unsafe communities to avoid future storm damage, a disaster official said yesterday.

The 60 southern communities of several dozen to more than 1,000 households will be asked to move to new locations to avoid the sort of landslides that buried parts of villages following Morakot from Aug. 7 to Aug. 9, Public Construction Commission Deputy Minister Chern Jenn-chuan (陳振川) said.

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