The Ministry of Justice will contact the FBI if any of the suspects in a software piracy ring recently uncovered in the US have Taiwan ties, a justice official said yesterday. Tsai Pi-yu (蔡璧玉), director of the ministry's Department of Prosecutorial Affairs, reiterated the government's determination to eliminate intellectual property rights infringement. The US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California and the FBI announced on April 18 that 27 people were arrested in a coordinated crackdown of a large, loosely affiliated group of dealers in counterfeit software in the Bay Area, mostly in San Jose and neighboring cities. Judging from the names, 13 of those arrested are ethnic Chinese, of whom some may have links to Taiwan, according to reports from San Francisco.
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Archbishop Joseph Ti-Kang of Taipei yesterday gives the Lord's blessing at the opening of the city's first public health-care center for the mentally disabled, which is supervised by the Bureau of Social Affairs under the Taipei City Government.
PHOTO: HAKU HUANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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