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Taiwanese go to polls anxiously looking to Hong Kong for signs from China

01/08/2020

Taiwanese go to polls anxiously looking to Hong Kong for signs from China By Peter Kenny TAIPEI CITY — Taiwan’s people have anxiously watched what goes on between Hong Kong and China on the eve of their presidential election. People in Taiwan talk about the Hong Kong protests and China’s reaction to them constantly, whether they are politicians, journalists, students, officials, or ordinary working people, many worrying that Beijing will try to bully them. At National Chengchi University, one…

IFJ resolution calls on U.N. to end exclusion of Taiwan journalists

06/19/2019

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Taipei, June 19 2019 (CNA) The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has put forth an urgent resolution condemning the United Nations’ « discriminatory exclusion » of Taiwan journalists at this year’s World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva and demanding that the U.N. end such a policy. « Amongst nearly 23.8 million people having been stripped of voice are also journalists, who were barred from press briefings at the Assembly for being holders of Taiwan passport and working for a bona fide media…