Taiwanese has bigger balls than Hongkies, they occupy parliament!

[Boba Fett]

Taiwan students occupy parliament for third day in rage against China trade deal

Wang Jin-pyng urges police and students to avoid further violence after hundreds seize parliament in protest over KMT's cross-strait trade push

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 20 March, 2014, 3:47am
UPDATED : Thursday, 20 March, 2014, 2:37pm

Lawrence Chung in Taipei [email protected]

Student protesters next to an anti-China banner listen to a speech inside parliament on Thursday, which they have occupied to protest a trade deal with the mainland. Photo: AFP

As the protest entered its third day, Taiwanese legislative speaker Wang Jin-pyng has called for a peaceful resolution of a student occupation of the island's parliament, triggered by the ruling party's handling of a trade deal with the mainland.

Police tried three times to remove about 200 demonstrators who have barred the main chamber's exits with chairs and other furniture after they burst in on Tuesday evening.

Students on block an entrance to Taiwan's parliament with sofas and chairs on Thursday. Photo: EPA

Four protesters were arrested and 38 officers injured as authorities' sought to regain control.

"The confrontation must be resolved in a peaceful manner and the protesters not be harmed," Wang said yesterday.

Police said about 2,250 people had gathered outside the legislature in a show of solidarity with the students by last night, Central News Agency reported.

Hundreds of students and professors hold a sit-in outside parliament on Thursday as police guard the perimeter. Photo: AFP

Shouting "Police back off," and "No selling out Taiwan to China", the students are protesting over the Kuomintang's push for a controversial cross-strait service trade pact.

The deal was signed in June last year as a follow-up to the Economic Co-operation Framework Agreement inked in 2010 by Taiwan and the mainland to open up each other's markets.

On Monday, KMT legislators cut short a bipartisan discussion of the deal. They are seeking to put it to a floor review, and ultimately a vote in the Legislative Yuan, where they enjoy a majority, before the term ends in July.

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The KMT said the pact would go to a floor review as a single item, and not "article by article", as they had earlier agreed to do with the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party.

Student protesters gather on the floor of parliament on Thursday as the demonstration entered its third day. Photo: AP

The students vowed to stay until tomorrow, when debate is due to begin. "We want Ma to apologise, [Premier] Jiang Yi-huah to resign and the legislature return the agreement [to cabinet]," said Huang Yu-fang, a spokeswoman of the Black Island Nation Youth Alliance.

Wang's plea for restraint came as a court ruled in favour of his lawsuit against the KMT's chairman, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, who sought to strip him of his party membership, and his title as speaker. The ruling could help Wang maintain a neutral position in discussions over the trade pact.

Beijing has repeatedly asked Taiwan to swiftly pass the deal.

DPP chairman Su Tseng-chang called on all party officials and supporters to gather at the legislature to force the KMT to review the pact item by item.

Chen Ting-wei, a student activist from National Tsinghua University, said that if the KMT refused to review the agreement as it originally said, "we will urge more people to storm the legislature".

Wang's neutral stance has reportedly upset Ma, who in September accused him of influence-peddling. Wang later filed a court injunction to temporarily freeze the KMT action.

The Taipei District Court sided with Wang yesterday, and the KMT said it would review the decision before deciding whether to appeal.

 

[Loeloe8]

Come on singaporean come out from comfort zone and start grow some ball

 

[yellowarse]

Ball size: Taiwan > HK > Peesai

 

[SgGoneWrong]

Ball size: Taiwan > HK > Peesai

Peesai got balls, but only pap buddies got balls to pay themselves the highest in the world despite being a city.

 

[MasterYoda]

Hmph

fish balls size how about

 

[The_Hypocrite]

Wow the hokkeins finally take action n its too little too late. When ah bian was president. They should have the balls to declare independence. But now they r ah tiong fied its too late. At tat time they did not want independence but wanted the status quo...now neither here nor there n kmt betray them. Typical hokkein kia su, kis see, kia bor, kiam siup. Die dont want face attitude.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Come on singaporean come out from comfort zone and start grow some ball

how can you grow something that don't exist in the 1st place ?

 

[sochi2014]

what did PAP garmen did for people to occupy Parliament?

 

[virus]

simi balls... all these ingrates should be sent on a ship back to motherland and learnt what is balls...

 

[Poomer]

If Singapore kids try that, they'll likely end up in RTC.

 

[GoldenPeriod]

Occupy but anything changed? Hongkies go out protest in the streets yell until sorethroat, anything changed?

 

[tonychat]

Ball size: Taiwan > HK > Peesai

why you put sinkie with hk and taiwan, it is an insult to them.

Sinkie is different league, the ball-less league.

 

[eErotica69]

why you put sinkie with hk and taiwan, it is an insult to them.

Sinkie is different league, the ball-less league.

Really? You are full of balls? How come you never protest against the conviction of Anwar?

You are ball-less or or UMNO dog?

 

[Jar Jar Binks]

Students vow to continue Taiwan parliament protest after deadline to meet demands ignored

Demonstrators occupying the legislature mull increasing the scale of their actions over a disputed trade pact with the mainland

PUBLISHED : Friday, 21 March, 2014, 3:29pm
UPDATED : Friday, 21 March, 2014, 6:28pm

Lawrence [email protected]

Protesters inside the parliament building today. Student leaders were angered by the government's refusal to heed their demands. Photo: AFP

Hundreds of students occupying Taiwan’s legislature to protest against a trade service pact with the mainland today vowed to continue their protest after the authorities ignored a noon deadline to meet their demands.

“We cannot accept such an attitude and will fight to the very end until our demands are met,” said Lin Fei-fan, a leader of the students’ protest.

Lin said the demonstrators would hold a meeting to discuss their next step, including plans to stage a long-term protest. They are due to announce their decision later today.

The students fear the trade pact with the mainland will lead to the loss of jobs in Taiwan and that closer ties with Beijing will put democracy under threat on the island.

They began their occupation of the parliament building on Tuesday.

The students issued an ultimatum on Thursday to President Ma Ying-jeou and legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng to meet their demands by noon today or face increased protests.

The demands include stopping the review of the trade pact in the legislature, passing a bill in the current session of the island’s parliament to oversee all agreements signed by Taipei and Beijing, and not to negotiate or sign any further agreements until the legislation is approved.

Students have barricaded themselves in parts of the building. They fear the trade pact will lead to job losses in Taiwan. Photo: AFP

The protest, which has attracted more than 3,000 demonstrators inside and outside the chamber, has so far remained largely peaceful.

President Ma asked Wang for a meeting this morning to try to discuss the issue, but Wang refused saying the protest was the result of conflict between the government and opposition parties.

A lawmaker with the governing Kuomintang, Chang Ching-chung, who had led a joint committee meeting on how to carry out a line-by-line review of the pact, abruptly announced on Monday that the pact would be sent to the legislative floor in its entirety.

The move triggered angry protests by legislators from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, which thought it had a deal with the KMT for an itemised review.

Students subsequently invaded the Legislative Yuan to protest against what they said was a “shameless” reversal by the KMT.

Demonstrators stormed into the parliament building on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

About 30,000 protesters, mobilised by the Democratic Progressive Party, yesterday joined the students in their protest outside the legislature.

The students' leaders said they were concerned the involvement of the opposition could change the nature of their protest.

“This is a protest staged by students, not by politicians, and we don’t want others to confuse the purpose,” said one student.

Many of the opposition party supporters wore shirts bearing the name of candidates contesting local government elections later this year.

The trade pact would allow Taiwan and the mainland to invest more freely in each other’s service sectors, but it still needs to be ratified by parliament.

President Ma has tried to foster closer ties with Beijing after decades of distrust between the two former adversaries.

Nationalist forces fled to Taiwan in 1949 after their defeat in the civil war on the mainland.

 

[escher]

Stinkies with their total absence of balls will remain
head down down and arseholes up high high to be fucked to be tiewed to be kanned by PAP maggots cockroaches waving their penises and dildoes for that smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY

BUT
LKY IS WITHIN DAYS OR WEEKS OF BECOMING A ROTTING CORPSE

THE PAP CONSIST OF THE WORSE SELF SERVING SCUMS AND ROTTEN PERVERTED VICIOUS BASTARDS OF SOCIETY
THEY WILL HOOT AND HOOT ARSELOON FOR THAT HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS SMEAR OF SHIT ON SOLE OF SHOE LKY STOLEN FROM SINGAPOREANS

AND THEN THEY HOOT THEMSELVES OR BE HOOTED THEMSELVES

THEN SINGAPOREANS WILL GO WITH PIANO WIRES AND HANG ALL THOSE REMAINING PAP MAGGOTS AND COCKROACHES AND KANGAROOS AND COLLABORATORS
AND WATCH THEM DANCE UNDER THE LAMP POSTS

 

[Clone]

sinkies have balls to occupy kopitiams, shopping centres and 4D outlets...

 

[Arena]

Dozens injured as Taiwan riot police use batons and water cannon to clear student protesters from parliament

PUBLISHED : Monday, 24 March, 2014, 5:02am
UPDATED : Monday, 24 March, 2014, 12:03pm

Lawrence Chung in Taipei and wire [email protected]

Taiwan's riot police clash with demonstrators as they try to clear the government cabinet buildings in Taipei. Photo: AP

Baton-wielding riot police cleared Taiwan’s Cabinet offices of scores of angry protesters opposed to a trade pact with China on Monday, in a sharp escalation of roiling tensions against the island’s rapidly developing ties with the communist mainland.

Dozens were injured as police used batons and water cannon against the students, after President Ma Ying-jeou failed to soothe public anger at his administration's handling of a free-trade pact with the mainland. Authorities said 58 protesters were arrested.

Yesterday up to 100 students broke into the Executive Yuan Council, with some finding what they thought was the office of Premier Jiang Yi-huah and reportedly seizing documents and computer files.

Taiwanese students protesting against a China Taiwan trade pact are sprayed with a water cannon while storming the government Cabinet offices. Photo: AP

Students outside the building chanted "We want real democracy", and "Retract the services trade pact", as they were surrounded by 500 riot police armed with shields and batons.

Late last night bloody scenes erupted as 1,000 police officers moved in to clear the protesters.

Clashes broke out when police tried to remove the protesters from the building and the surrounding compound, with many lying on the ground with their hands linked in an effort to thwart police.

Riot officers used riot shields to push the crowds back while some demonstrators tried to grab their batons and pelted them with plastic bottles.

Two water cannon trucks were then deployed, eventually subduing the crowd before the building was cleared.

The occupation of the Cabinet offices marked a sharp escalation in tactics by a mostly student-led protest movement that now appears to be showing signs of a split between anti-government militants and a main group seeking dialogue with President Ma Ying-jeou on the China trade pact.

Protesters scuffle with police officers outside the Executive Yuan during a demonstration in Taipei. Photo: AFP

Taiwanese student demonstrators are removed by police after storming the government cabinet offices in Taipei. Photo: AP

Tensions first exploded into the open six days ago when around 200 demonstrators, mostly young students, broke through security barriers and took over parliament’s main chamber, the first such occupation of the building in the island’s history.

President Ma Ying-jeou denounced the “illegal” occupation of parliament by students opposed to the trade agreement’s ratification.

Local TVBS news network showed protesters pulling down barbed wire barricades surrounding the government building, with some using ladders to break into offices on the second floor of the building. The network showed clashes between protesters and police holding shields, as well as an injured male protester lying on the ground being attended to by medical personnel.

In his first press conference since the occupation began, Ma on Sunday called on the protesters to leave the chamber. He said the pact was vital to Taiwan's economy and he condemned the occupation as illegal.

The agreement would open up as many as 80 services industries, including banking, hospitals and e-commerce companies to markets and competition.

"I perfectly understand the students' concern about national affairs," Ma said. "But they should never have resorted to illegal means."

Ma cancelled all public activities scheduled for Monday and will meet senior officials to assess the impact of the protest.

Taiwanese protesters are forced by riot police to leave the government cabinet buildings in Taipei. Photo: AP

A Jiang spokesman said: "Such a violation of law is unacceptable and for this the premier has ordered that the National Police Administration increase the police force to dispel them."

Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin also asked Taipei police to restore order. Police authorities were reported to have mobilised 3,000 officers, and riot police began to remove demonstrators after midnight. At least 20 students were detained.

While political protests in Taiwan are common, violent confrontations between demonstrators and police are relatively rare, reflecting the high level of civil discourse that has taken hold of Taiwanese society since the island completed an impressive transition from one-party dictatorship to robust democracy in the mid-1990s.

Student protesters occupy the Executive Yuan in Taipei. Photo: AFP

Taiwanese student protesters against a trade pact with Beijing try to intimidate police after storming the government Cabinet buildings in Taipei. Photo: AP

A student guards the entrance of the Executive Yuan during a demonstration in Taipei. Photo: AFP