IMPROMPTU: The two lawmakers staged an exercise they said was designed to test police response to an incident at a local university, but the police had not been informed
By Flora Wang, Max Hirsch and Jimmy Chuang
Two days after the worst shooting rampage in US history on the campus of Virginia Tech University, heavily armed police swarmed the school's sister institution in Taiwan, National Taiwan University (NTU), responding to what they believed was a hostage incident carried out by two armed assailants.

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SUFFERING: Visiting Machangding Memorial Park yesterday, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said that facing the truth is a way of dealing with it
By Jewel Huang
Telling others about their traumatic experiences is a healing process for the families of victims of the 228 Incident, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu said yesterday.

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TESTAMENT: A package mailed to NBC cast light on one of the biggest mysteries of the massacre
Two days after the worst killing spree in modern US history, the shooter again assaulted Virginia Tech -- though this time it was in videos and photographs.

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A Canadian activist jailed in China for alleged terrorist links was sentenced to life in prison yesterday, the Xinhua news agency said, in a ruling that could ratchet up political tensions between the countries.

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Asia's richest woman left her wealth to her fortune-teller in her last known will, which is all but certain to spark a huge legal battle with relatives, Hong Kong media reported yesterday.

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