Major General Yang Chien-ping of the Taiwan National Security Bureau has been dismissed for an extramarital affair he had in Panama. Sheree Ma, a member of the Control Yuan, Taiwan’s investigative agency, compared Yang’s behavior to Ang Lee’s 2007 espionage thriller Lust, Caution in which an intelligence officer has an illicit affair during Japan’s...
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Panama’s retirees and pensioners will walk from Plaza 5 de Mayo to the Presidency today to petition the pension increase promised to them by President Martinelli. Back in April, after meeting with the President, Independent Retirees and Pensioners Association leader Eladio Fernandez left confident that a $50 a month increase was in the works. He...
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The National Immigration Service and the Labor Ministry detected an illegal Canadian and an illegal Chilean during a surprise operation yesterday in Boquete. Immigration officials made the rounds of hostels, bars, restaurants and other public places, looking for foreigners who were in country or working without the appropriate paperwork. Adriany Hernandez, head of the...
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