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...in Moscow, Russia. , Ma Ying-jeou, the party chairman of the Kuomintang, resigns after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei. Fatmir Rexhepi, the...

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...· Taiwan elects a new president, who is promising to strengthen ties with China. Ma Ying-jeou is a graduate of Harvard University and former mayor of Taipei. Ma's victory is seen as an opportunity to defuse long-simmering tensions with...

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...named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". 2007 - Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office...

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...Ma faces seven years' jail if found guilty on corruption charges A former mayor of Taipei has been nominated as the opposition candidate in Taiwan's presidential election. But Ma Ying-jeou, who is seen as a front-runner in the 2008 poll,...

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...of the Australian Senate. A Taiwanese court clears Ma Ying-jeou, the Kuomintang Party candidate for President of the Republic of China, of charges of corruption dating from when he was the mayor of Taipei. Hundreds of people die in...

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...two vice chairmen of the opposition Nationalist Party, Ma Ying-jeou and Jason Hu. Ma, the mayor of Taipei, said "the policies and measures" of Chen's pro-independence government were partly to blame for the anti-secession law, but said...

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...government to pay NT$34.7 billion (US$1.06 billion) in debt accumulated since 1999, when President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), then the mayor of Taipei, stopped payments in protest against the method of calculating insurance contributions. The...

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...regional tensions. Ma, a Harvard-educated former mayor of Taipei, was expected to reach out to Beijing -- which still claims sovereignty over the island -- in his inaugural address in front of some 15,000 people. Reports here said he...

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...to the disgust of anyone watching the proceedings. President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) was the model of courtesy - even under extreme and gratuitous provocation - when he was mayor of Taipei. Sadly, few of his KMT colleagues and just as small a...

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