Taiwan National Assembly erupts in scuffle over underwear joke
In Taipei the Nationalist Party led melee in the 402 member legislature as two ruling party members mocked opposition lawmaker Su Chih Yang causing Su to slap Kuo Su Chun. Four other women joined, one collapsed from pressure while trying to intervene during debates on 1996 universal suffrage.
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Woman funds Tiananmen victims list and aid network
Ding, a Chinese philosophy professor turned activist, keeps a detailed list of Tiananmen dead and wounded and channels overseas donations to families. Her work began after her son Jiang Jielian was killed on June 3–4, 1989, and has grown to aid 80 families with fatalities and 50 with injuries, despite government reprisals and renewed censorship.
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Ding is not afraid as Tiananmen widow fights on
Ding, whose son died in 1989, leads a discreet aid network from Beijing, keeping receipts, sheltering families across China, and staging a hunger strike on her son’s birthday. Police surveil her apartment as she vows to uncover the truth behind the massacre and the death toll.
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