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TAIPEI, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Experts from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan Wednesday started their second round of talks in Taipei to pave the way for a long-awaited economic deal that is expected to boost cross-Strait economic ties.The two-day meeting in Tashi, Taoyuan county, is expected to speed up the consultation process of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), which is intended to normalize mainland-Taiwan economic ties and bring the two economies closer.The two sides are expected to exchange views on operational and technological topics including the main content of the agreement and consultation arrangements in the future.The mainland side is composed of directors of the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), experts and economic affairs officials.Tang Wei, director-general of the Ministry of Commerce's Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao affairs department, said such an agreement would further cross-Strait economic cooperation, and help the two sides cope with the impact of possible economic crises in the future and the increasingly competitive international market.

BEIJING, May 31 -- Evidence obtained illegally - such as through torture during interrogation - cannot be used in testimony, particularly in cases involving the death penalty, according to two regulations issued on Sunday.A death sentence should be pronounced only with sufficient evidence acquired through legal means, stipulate the two regulations: One on evidence review in death sentence cases, and the other on excluding illegal evidence in criminal cases.Jointly issued by the top court, the top procuratorate, the ministries of public security, state security and justice, they are the first specific rules on collection of evidence and review in criminal cases.The first regulation sets out principles and rules for scrutinizing and gauging evidence in cases involving the death penalty, and the other sets out detailed procedure for examining evidence and for excluding evidence obtained illegally.They are expected to cut down on death sentences and reduce forced confessions, experts said.The regulations make it clear that evidence with unclear origin, confessions obtained through torture, or testimony obtained through violence and intimidation are invalid, particularly in death sentences."Not a single mistake is allowed in fact finding and collection of evidence in cases involving the death sentence," said a written Q&A released by the five central departments on Sunday.The new regulations define illegal evidence and include specific procedures on how to exclude such evidence.Lu Guanglun, a senior judge at the Supreme People's Court, said such details do not exist in the Criminal Procedure Law and its judicial interpretations."This is the first time that a systematic and clear regulation tells law enforcers that evidence obtained through illegal means is not only illegal but also useless," said Zhao Bingzhi, dean of the law school at Beijing Normal University."Previously we could only infer from abstract laws that illegal evidence is not allowed. But in reality, in many cases, such evidence was considered valid," he said."This is big progress, both for the legal system and for better protection of human rights," he said. "It will help reduce the number of executions".Zhao said the new rules will also help change the mindset of law enforcers and reduce torture in interrogation, one of the causes of wrongful sentences.Ever since the top court started reviewing all death sentences in 2007, the overall quality of handling criminal cases has improved, but a lot of problems still remain, the joint Q&A said.In 2008, the top court announced that about 15 percent of death sentence verdicts by lower courts in 2007 were found to have faults.On May 20, Zhou Yongkang, secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Political and Legislative Committee, said at a meeting that "the criminal legal system should be perfected and law enforcers should improve their capability to ensure that every case handled can stand the test of law and time". Lu at the top court said the new rules will help prevent wrongful convictions like the one in which an innocent villager in Henan province was wrongly prosecuted.The case of Zhao Zuohai, who stayed behind bars for 11 years until the man he allegedly murdered turned up alive on April 30, has attracted national attention and triggered public criticism of judicial officers after Zhao said he was tortured by local police to confess.Three former police officers have been arrested for allegedly torturing Zhao."Such cases seriously undermine the image of China's justice system and people's trust in the government," said Bian Jianlin, a law professor at China University of Political Science and Law.

BEIJING, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu Thursday urged authorities to make provision of drinking water for people in drought-hit southwest China a top priority.Hui's call followed arrangements for combating the expanding drought laid out at a State Council, or Cabinet, meeting in Beijing."As the drought in southwest China continues, our fight against the disaster and the relief work remain onerous," he said."We must do everything we can to get water by taking measures such as artificial precipitation, digging wells and finding new water sources," he said.He also asked officials to invest more in building water conservancy facilities to solve the "bottleneck problems" of agricultural production.As of Tuesday, the expanding severe drought had left 24.25 million people and 15.84 million farm animals short of water, Vice Minister of Water Resources Liu Ning said Wednesday.The drought started in September last year in southwest China, with Yunnan Province being the worst affected region. Ocassional rainfall in these areas has done little to alleviate it.

BEIJING, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Experts say the Party's promulgation of four documents on the selection and promotion of government and Party cadres will build a "total supervisory network" and cover the entire process of an official's career, from selection to retirement.The four documents, promulgated Wednesday by the General Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, cover the selection and auditing of officials and set out penalties for those found guilty of misconduct in the selection and promotion of government and Party cadres.Prof. Ye Duchu of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee said the documents "clarify the responsibilities of people in charge of selecting officials" and aim to prevent corruption and make the cadre selection process transparent.Personnel departments at various levels are required to report personnel changes to superior departments before official appointments are made, and the appointments should be discussed by members of CPC committees of the same level.Officials are also required to be audited before leaving their posts and penalized if they are found to be guilty of misconduct.The selection and promotion of officials have been prone to public criticism in some areas.According to the Party's disciplinary body in central Henan Province, nine of the 22 county-level Party chiefs that had been penalized for corruption since 2006 have been punished while in their posts while the 13 others were punished about one year after being promoted."It reflects shortcomings in the selection and promotion of cadres," Ye said.Prof. Lu Wei of Wuhan University in central Hubei Province said the documents will help prevent the unmerited selection of officials and clarify rules.China issued its first regulation on officials' selection in 1995. Later, it was amended to make it clearer, stressing "transparency," "competition" and "equal emphasis on both integrity and professional competence."Lu said this time the new documents set out penalties for misconduct in the selection of officials.A number of high-ranking officials were deposed or resigned in recent years due to take responsibility for failures, coal mine accidents and food safety scandals. But some of them won new posts shortly after being removed.To address this issue, the new documents clarify that "officials who have been transferred to other posts for misconduct in selection and promotion of cadres will not be eligible for further promotion for one year," and "demoted officials will also be barred from promotion for two years."Lu said the new documents will tighten regulation of officials' conduct and improve the credibility of officials' selection.