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BCC could face fine if its boss also heads the KMT By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter Broadcasting Corp of China (BCC) could be fined up to NT$2 million (US$70,460) if BCC chairman Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) simultaneously serves as chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), the National Communications Commission said yesterday. The commission made the remark after Jaw earlier in the day announced that he had applied to rejoin the KMT after quitting the party nearly three decades ago, and ...

Japanese ‘Twitter killer’ sentenced to death for 9 murders AFP, TOKYO A Japanese man dubbed the “Twitter killer” was on Tuesday sentenced to death by a Tokyo court for murdering and dismembering nine people he met on the social media platform. Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, admitted killing and butchering his young victims, all but one of whom were women. His lawyers had argued he should receive a prison sentence rather than be executed, because his victims, aged 15 to 26, expressed suicidal t...