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Former Taiwan President Chen Shui- bian tried to kill himself in a prison hospital to protest his 2009 corruption conviction, for which he’s serving a 20-year jail sentence.
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Taiwanese opposition lawmakers today delayed cutting a controversial capital gains tax on share sales of more than NT$1 billion ($33.3 million) and removing an index price threshold that depressed shares.
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Sitting in Taipei’s main commercial center as office workers filed out for lunch, Y.S. Liu mourned the collapse of her import business. Her president, she said, had failed to deliver.
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Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou faced rivals in the last debate before Jan. 14 elections that will serve as a referendum on whether to keep pursuing closer ties with China.
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Taiwan opposition leader James Soong will join the race for the presidency after gathering enough signatures to qualify, a bid that may siphon pro-China votes away from incumbent Ma Ying-jeou.
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Hong Kong billionaire Jimmy Lai’s sale of his Taiwan newspaper and magazine collapsed amid protests that the NT$16 billion ($536 million) deal would silence a critical voice on China and give the buyers too much control of the island’s media.
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Malawian police arrested at least six former government officials and ministers for allegedly conspiring to install the military after the death last year of President Bingu wa Mutharika.
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Taipei home prices may fall as much as 5 percent in the short term if the pro-independence opposition wins in the city’s mayoral elections, according to Grand Cathay Securities Corp.
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Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou was re-elected emphasizing his success easing tensions with China. Now comes the hard part: building on those gains in his final four-year term without diluting the island’s autonomy.
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Recently in Karachi, I dropped in on a talk by the Pakistani journalist and TV anchor Kamran Khan at a Rotary Club meeting. Describing relations between India and Pakistan at a “crossroads,” Khan exhorted his audience to feel shame about Pakistani involvement in the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008 that killed 164 people and have frozen India- Pakistan relations ever since.
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