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...high-ranking Chinese official to Taiwan - expose that the Taiwan's authorities have been biased against him. While being held at the Taipei Detention Center, Chen has been drawing public attention to his cause through extended hunger strikes, writing poetry, and publishing his memoir. And some, including Chuang Rui-hsiung, a criminal procedure lawyer in Taipei, agree with the former leader's argument. "People should be treated innocent until proven guilty," Chuang says. "They shouldn't treat Chen differently." Chen's loyal supporters also believe that his case has been politicized...
...first family's meals, as well as state and official dinners. CLOSED. AN INQUIRY into the shooting of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu on the eve of the March 2004 presidential elections; by the Supreme Prosecutors Office; in Taipei. Officials concluded that Chen Yi-hsiung, a retired construction worker dissatisfied with Chen's policies, acted alone in the assassination attempt. He later died in an apparent suicide. Opposition parties claimed that the shooting, in which Chen and Lu were lightly injured, was staged in order to win sympathy votes and ensure Chen's subsequent victory...
...year after Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian and his running mate Annette Lu were wounded on the eve of the island's 2004 election, Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau announced last week that it had a suspect: Chen Yi-hsiung, an unemployed man who blamed the President for his economic woes. The only problem: Chen Yi-hsiung is dead. Police say he drowned off the southern city of Tainan 10 days after the March 19 shooting, a death now considered a suicide. It's a case with huge import: hours after the attempted assassination, President Chen won re-election...
...Working off a tip identifying Chen Yi-hsiung from video footage shot near the attack, authorities spent months tracing the bullets used in the attack to an illegal gunmaker, and then to Chen Yi-hsiung. Investigators questioned his family, who police say burned suicide notes that may have explained his actions. (His wife later appeared in a video apologizing for her husband's crime.) But President Chen's foes claim that the assassination attempt was engineered to win sympathy votes?and with Chen the suspect dead, they argue that the investigators' findings are impossible to prove. "The police reasoning...
...Taiwan, however, needs fewer martyrs and more heroes. Last Monday, the island was shaken by news that nearly 150 frightened doctors and nurses in Taipei and in the southern city of Kao-hsiung had resigned, at a time when they are needed most. On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) removed Hong Kong and Guangdong from its infamous travel-advisory list, confident that these former hot zones had contained the disease. But in Taiwan, the epidemic shows little sign of letting up as the number of SARS cases on the island rose in seven days from...