An Internet activist has been forced to move home twice after revealing China's first known case of government compensation for a family of a Tiananmen pro-democracy massacre victim, a report said yesterday.
Huang Qi (黃琦) revealed on his Web site that a southwestern city government paid 70,000 yuan (US$8,750) in April to a woman whose 15-year-old son was killed in the suppression of a local pro-democracy protest 17 years ago.
Huang and his wife were ordered to move twice in the past month by his landlords who acted after police pressure and ahead of tomorrow's anniversary of the crackdown, according to Hong Kong-based Ming Pao newspaper.
On Thursday, his latest landlord, accompanied by police, asked him to move within 10 days, even though Huang had just signed a two-year lease agreement last month, the daily said.
Huang was released in June last year after serving a five-year prison sentence for running a Web site which criticized government corruption and the suppression of rights, and for helping families of Tiananmen victims.
Meanwhile, the "Unknown Rebel" who famously stood up to a column of tanks during the demonstrations is rumored to be living in Taiwan, where he reportedly settled in 1993.
The Falun Gong-backed Epoch Times quoted a Hong Kong-based professor who spoke on condition of anonymity as saying that the "tank man" was Wang Weilin (王維林), an adviser to the National Palace Museum.
However, the National Palace Museum late last night denied that Wang was employed there.
Tropical Storm Usagi strengthened to a typhoon yesterday morning and remains on track to brush past southeastern Taiwan from tomorrow to Sunday, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. As of 2pm yesterday, the storm was approximately 950km east-southeast of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan proper’s southernmost point, the CWA said. It is expected to enter the Bashi Channel and then turn north, moving into waters southeast of Taiwan, it said. The agency said it could issue a sea warning in the early hours of today and a land warning in the afternoon. As of 2pm yesterday, the storm was moving at
UPDATED FORECAST: The warning covered areas of Pingtung County and Hengchun Peninsula, while a sea warning covering the southern Taiwan Strait was amended The Central Weather Administration (CWA) at 5:30pm yesterday issued a land warning for Typhoon Usagi as the storm approached Taiwan from the south after passing over the Philippines. As of 5pm, Usagi was 420km south-southeast of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan proper’s southernmost tip, with an average radius of 150km, the CWA said. The land warning covered areas of Pingtung County and the Hengchun Peninsula (恆春), and came with an amended sea warning, updating a warning issued yesterday morning to cover the southern part of the Taiwan Strait. No local governments had announced any class or office closures as of press time last night. The typhoon
DISCONTENT: The CCP finds positive content about the lives of the Chinese living in Taiwan threatening, as such video could upset people in China, an expert said Chinese spouses of Taiwanese who make videos about their lives in Taiwan have been facing online threats from people in China, a source said yesterday. Some young Chinese spouses of Taiwanese make videos about their lives in Taiwan, often speaking favorably about their living conditions in the nation compared with those in China, the source said. However, the videos have caught the attention of Chinese officials, causing the spouses to come under attack by Beijing’s cyberarmy, they said. “People have been messing with the YouTube channels of these Chinese spouses and have been harassing their family members back in China,”
The Central Weather Administration (CWA) yesterday said there are four weather systems in the western Pacific, with one likely to strengthen into a tropical storm and pose a threat to Taiwan. The nascent tropical storm would be named Usagi and would be the fourth storm in the western Pacific at the moment, along with Typhoon Yinxing and tropical storms Toraji and Manyi, the CWA said. It would be the first time that four tropical cyclones exist simultaneously in November, it added. Records from the meteorology agency showed that three tropical cyclones existed concurrently in January in 1968, 1991 and 1992.
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