Minister of Justice steps down over death penalty row
Taipei, March 12 (CNA) Premier Wu Deng-yih said late Thursday night that he had accepted the resignation of Minister of Justice Wang Ching-feng, two days after the minister's proposal to not carry out any executions met with an outcry from victims of violent crimes and their families.
President Chen Shui-bian (right) receives U.S. Representatives Solomon
Ortiz (center) and Steve Chabot (left) at the Presidential Office
Wednesday. Ortiz arrived here Jan. 5 for a six-day visit while Chabot
arrived here Jan. 8 for a four-day visit.
CNA photo, Jan. 9, 2008
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reiterated in Beijing Sunday that China will give Taiwan favorable treatment in the proposed trade pact between the two sides, because "we are siblings."
In an attempt to calm Taiwan's fears over signing an encompassing trade pact with China to normalize bilateral economic relations, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said at his annual news conference Sunday that the proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with Taiwan should hurt neither Taiwan's farmers nor its small
Taipei, March 14 (CNA) The annual mock United Nations conference organized by university students in Taiwan and the United States opened Sunday in Taipei, with 1,800 participants from over 40 nations, excluding China.
Taipei, March 15 (CNA) A wave of sandstorms are expected to hit Taiwan Tuesday, affecting the air quality, according to the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA).
The bodies of three of 15 persons aboard seven cars that washed away in a torrential river on August 9 have been found drifting in seas 150 miles away over the last two days, Nantou police said yesterday. < Full Story >
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