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'''Ostaran Times''' is a Nam Dihn-based international newspaper covering politics, economics, business and culture "from an Ostaran perspective". Ostaran Times was created in 1578 by Lê Công Trai, a Hoinomese media mogul who comes from an ancient family of the Hoinomese northern nobility. The current editor-in-chief is Hà Quang Bào, who was hired in 1584.

The new publishing company is Ostaran Times Corporation, incorporated and duly registered in Hôi Luỳên with offices in Haesong, Kanjong, Doungzhou, and Jandrea City. It derives part of its revenues from advertising and publishing books on different issues.

The newspaper offers news and commentary by distinguished analysts and correspondents, spanning the spectrum of Ostaran issues and the global issues that intersect with them. According to the Royal Office of Media, Ostaran Times is the most widely read Oslan-language in Hôinòm. It is popular in Nam Dihn and Hôi Luỳên, with simultaneous editions from Bâc Duong, Quang Cai and Tiejungo.

Ostaran Times is published in Oslan language, with an edition on Hoinomese language simultaneously published in Hôi Lùyên. It has also online editions published on Lanlian and Florinthian languages.

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Corruption scandal shocks Hôi Luỳên
By: Muong Quang Viên
Published: Alvan 1587


Shi Wen was granted Hoinomese citizenship in 1586.

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Shi Wen, owner of Bingyan Corporation, has been arrested in Nam Dinh, Hôinôm, local media reported. The 36-year old billonaire is being accused of tax evasion and corruption-related charges in an alleged scheme to manipulate Hôinôm national currency.

The Tieguo-born billonaire moved to Hôinôm in 1581, where she has invested heavily in banking and technological companies, investing in real estate properties as well. In 1585, she bought largest Hoinomese private bank, becoming second richest person in the country. She comes from a wealthy family, well-known for their ownerships of online gaming and casinos in Tiejungo.

Shi is well-known in Hôinôm, where she has acquired the status of celebrities, as consequence in his appearance on charity events and in national media. She is reportedly a close acquaintance of Hôinôm's Empress Hông herself and royal consort Takahito Mushashi.

Her arrest has come as a surprise, as corruption cases are rare and long, rarely involving high-ranking officials and business leaders.

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President Guo Min Cheng dies
By: Lucy Yeung
Published: Dosa 11, 1587


President Guo Min Cheng was the longest serving head of state in the history of the United Republic of Tieguo.

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Guo Min Cheng, President of the United Republic of Tieguo, has died today in Doungzhou, the Office of the Presidency has reported in an official statement.

Guo Min Cheng, age 84, was admitted to Doungzhou Military Hospital early this month for severe pneumonia and was later put on life support. President Guo, who had survived three cancers in recent years, remained in power however despite constant rumours of a transition of power inside the leadership of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party.

His supported viewed him as a strong and efficient ruler, who brough stability to the giant East Ostaran nation, introduced many administrative reforms and opened the country to foreign investment.

However, he was also viewed as an authoritarian leader who used draconian tactics to clamp down on free speech and any sign of dissent. Some of his political rivals were jailed without trial for decades and brought defamation lawsuits against journalists -both at home and abroad- for daring to stand up to him. Tieguo has been ruled by the Tieguonese Nationalist Party since 1519, in one of the longest one-party states of the region.

In late years, President Guo Min Cheng was considered rather a nominal leader, being daily affairs of the country in charge of younger Tieguonese leaders, such as Premier Jie Jong-Jian, Deputy Premier and Secretary of State Security Dong Mu Yuen, Secretary of Foreign Affairs Hwuei Shi Lai, or the First Secretary of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party Qiu Yu Zhao. However, President Guo had still a huge influenced and it is believed that his leadership was never questioned.

Guo Min Cheng became President of the United Republic of Tieguo in 1551, holding power for almost 36 years. Previously, he was appointed as General Secretary of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party in 1544, another office he also held until his death.

Premier Jie Jong-Jian, who is considered a likely successor of the deceased leader, declared in a statement that President Guo "passed away peacefully" and added that arrangements for the public to pay respects and funeral arrangements would be announced soon. Premier Jie also announced a three-week official mourning.

Guo Min Cheng was born in Qoulong in 1503, during the Tieguonese Civil War (1497-1519) from a family of militants of the Nationalist Party of Tieguo. In early life, after a brief career as diplomat in Akitsu and Severyane, Guo Min Cheng started his political career in 1537, when he was appointed Governor of Xianmeng. He served briefly as Secretary of Administrative Affairs (1540-1541), to be appointed General Secretary of the Nationalist Party of Tieuguo in 1544.

After the fall of Xun Huan Zhao in 1551, he was elected President of the United Republic. While there were not many expectations that his rule may last long, Guo Min Cheng was able to consolidate his power, enforcing a new policy which combinated market reforms, strengthenment of civilian rule, and political reforms aimed to consolidate the power of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party.

The next Tieguonese leader will be likely announced after a new party congress, which could be announced soon, experts believe. The last congress of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party was held in 1577.

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Hôinôm: Airplane accident turns into safety scandal
By: Muong Quang Viên
Published: Dein 1587


A Hôi Airways advertisement.

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Earlier this year, the Ostaran country entered in world news after a commercial airplane from Hôi Airways crashed nearby Tiejungo coast, reportedly killing all of its 248 passengers. While most of the victims were of Hoinomese and Singanese citizenship, citizens from Mayari, Tiejungo, Tieguonese, Kazemuran, Florinthian, Oslanburgan, Svarna Surya, Mestra and Kortoa were declared between those killed or disappeared in the accident.

Now, several Hoinomese officials and businessmen are facing severe criticism, after documents from the internal investigation of the accident were leaked to a Tiejungo newspaper. The documents, although offering contradictory date in some cases, clearly show that the case of the accident was likely a technical fault instead of a human error as it was rumoured when the investigation started.

A leaked document shows that the airplane was one of the four Hôi Airways which failed to pass several tests by Hoinomese and other regional authorities. The Ministry of Telecommunications have rejected this claim, assuring that no airplane in such conditions were allowed to fly, and the airplane had to be repaired and, after that, it was able to pass test not only in Hôinôm, but in other foreign airports as well. Despite this denial, Hôi Airways' shares plummeted 29%, which brought the company's stock-market losses since the accident to $1.1bn.

Thuong Quang Bào, CEO of Hôi Airways, has denied any wrongdoings, claiming that the leaked documents may not be trustworthy, as "in every investigation there are contradictory information that could be proven false as the investigation continues...We will wait to the final report and the conclusion of the investigation, before making any further comment", he said. Bào is a businessman closely related to Lâm Thành Thuân, a cousin of Empress Hông. The Hoinomese government is the second largest shareholder of Hôi Airways, as it is own 33% of the company's stocks. About 11% of the stocks are also owned by an unidentified Goldecian investors, as it was recently published in a newspaper from Nam Dinh.

However, many of the leaked documents point to a second company, Hoangkam, owned by Phan Vân Vang, one of the richest men in Hôinôm. Hoangkam, established in 1578, is a steel manufacturer which supplies most of the motor, car, and aircraft companies based in Hôinôm, along with an increasing growth in Southern Ostara regional market.

The leaked documents show that the accident was likely caused by the bad quality of some of the aircraft equipment, most of them produced in factories owned or associated to Hoangkam company. In 1583, the company was already investigated by the Hoinomese state for the quality of products including aluminium and copper used in cars, trains, and defense equipment. "Those allegations were seriously investigated and corrected, and they have no relation with the current investigation", a Hoangkam spokesperson has declared.

But some of the leaked documents seem to contradict the company's statement, declaring some of the recovered parts of the aircraft were of "extremely bad qualify". A technical report even defined the accident as "an awaiting tragedy". Other leaked documents accuse Hoangkam of falsified data on the products used by the aircraft, one of the first one produced almost entirely by Hoinomese companies.

Dào Hùu Vang, an opposition MP, has called the government to examine other possible data manipulations going back a decade.  Hoangkam has supplied defense equipment to the Ministry of Defense, and steel products and train equipment were used in countries such as, beside Hôinôm, Singan, Mayari, Ishnalla, or Svarna Surya, in some cases directly or indirectly supplied by Hoangkam.

Hoangkam has threatened to sue the newspaper which published these leaked documents, claiming that they seem "aiming to create panic and spread unchecked information in the public opinion. The Hoinomese company has declared to be contacting its customers and working to establish whether the products it had supplied were safe, which they are sure it is likely the case. At the moment, it does not believe that safety has been compromised. "Verification and inspection to date have not recognised specific problems casting doubts on the safety of the nonconforming products", Hoangkam spokesperson said.

The case, however, has forced the Hoinomese government to set up a committee to investigate the quality issues, and hired a law firm to conduct an external investigation of all Hôi Airways aircraft, including those supplied by other countries. "We can't rule out the possibility that the external investigation will find other cases", a government spokesperson has declared. He added that customers had not raised any safey issues and that in the last months, no Hôi Airways aircraft was found was found with similar problems as the airplane which crashed nearby Tiejungo.

The Hoinomese government is currently under pressure to resolve the crisis quickly. "We ask Prime Minister Quang Công Quang to throughly look into the cases and take steps to prevent a recurrence as well as to make utmost efforst to rstore the trust of not only its customers, but of society a a whole", an op-ed published in Luỳên Enquire, a conservative newspaper usually supportive of current administration's policies.

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Tieguo: Government reshuffle announced
By: Lucy Yeung
Published: Treinze 4, 1587


Qiu Yu Zhao, the new Tieguonese leader, is a relatively unknown politician in the foreign media.

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Tieguonese media has announced the major government reshuffle in a decade, with almost two-thirds of the government either leaving or changing their posts, including Premier Jie Jong-Jian. The move comes only one month and half after Qiu Yu Zhao was sworn as the seventh president of the United Republic of Tieguo.

Qiu Yu Zhao, 53, was surprisingly elected General Secretary of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party last Summer, during the Congress of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party, replacing Guo Min Cheng, who had been in power in Tieguo as both General Secretary of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party and President of the United Republic of Tieguo since 1551. Guo Min Cheng, the longest-serving head of state since the abolition of the monarchy died early this year, affected by an undisclosed cancer, aged 83.

The election of Qiu Yu Zhao surprised many Tieguonese scholars and foreign correspondents alike, although it is not exactly unprecedented. Xun Huan Zhao was elected President of the United Republic of Tieguo aged 55, in 1546, while Guo Min Cheng was elected General Secretary of the Nationalist Tieguonese Party in 1544, aged only 41, before being elected President of the Republic of Tieguo a decade later.

Qiu Yu Zhao had been previously First Secretary of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party, a position created in 1574, only 1582, and he lacked any remarkable experience in the national government. The election of Qiu as General Secretary of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party was understood as an attempt of "national rejuvenation" of the Tieguonese leadership but, at the same time, fed different and contradictory rumours. It was said that Tieguo was likely to experience a situation similar to the restoration of civilian rule in the 1540s, when the position of President of the republic, Premier of the National State Council, and General Secretary of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party were held by different persons.

Deputy Premier Dong Mu Yuen, Secretary of National Defense, or Ming Guanyu Zhu, Chairman of the National Military Council, were rumoured to replace Jie Jong-Jian, aged 71, Premier of Tieguo since 1572 and acting head of state since the death of Guo Min Cheng. Notwithstanding, Qiu Yu Zhao was elected President of the United Republic of Tieguo by the People's Chamber (Tieguo's unicameral parliament) on Elva 11, by a 466-0 vote.

Yu Zhihao Chang has been announced as the new Premier (head of government) replacing Jie Jong-Jian. Yu Zhihao Chang, 58, was previously Secretary of National Defense, an office which will be held now by Dong Mu Yuen - a move which may be difficult to interpret. Ming Guanyu Zhu, 61, former Chairman of the National Military Council has been appointed as Deputy Premier, a move that hints to a promotion and increasing influence of Tieguonese officials of military background, already witnessed in the last congress of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party. However, a large number of new ministers are former governors, while the number of women ministers had been reduced from 5 to 2. One of the four women ministers who lost their position was Hwuei Shi Lai, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs, a decision which has not surprised many, as Hwuei -once considered a Guo Min Cheng's protégée- was not reelected to the National Executive Council of the Tieguonese Nationalist Party in the last congress.

The announcement was received with relative calm and apathy in Tieguo, where many wait anxiously the policies of the new leadership, although not many hope for deep political changes in the short term. It is still to soon to predict if they will prove wrong or not.

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Martial Law declared in Mayari
By: Filomeno Sandvik
Published: Treizen 22, 1585


President Alberto Hidalgo has already faced severe criticism from numerous groups for his government's creeping authoritarianism, beginning with his proclamation last year to postpone national elections for ten months

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In an unprecedented move since the inception of the Second Republic back in 1520, President Alberto Hidalgo has announced the enactment of Martial Law throughout the entirety of Mayari.

Executive Proclamation No. 705 was publicly announced this Friday (Treizen 20 afternoon) by the President himself, in a nationwide television and radio broadcast. The official daily government gazette of Mayari also carried the proclamation in their headline and in their website, well advance of any major news agency within the country's borders.

In his address, the President of Mayari has identified the "increasingly escalating frequency and severity of violence" by the  CPM-MPRA (Communist Party of Mayari-Mayari Peasant's Revolutionary Army) as the primary factor for the enactment of nationwide Martial Law. In line with this, the President has cited several instances ever since last year which shows the "threat to peace and order" posed by the underground movement. Foremost among these incidents was the attempted assassination of Mayari's Vice President Rafael Cardenas through the use of a car bomb near the end of Vintyr the previous year.

The Executive Proclamation had three main "general orders to be immediately implemented." First of these was the granting of absolute control to President Hidalgo of military and police authority as well as legislative power, to be used in order to "curb national disturbances." The Congress of Mayari has been shut down and it is alleged that President Hidalgo has already ordered the Mayar Armed Forces to seize control of judicial functions over the courts come next week.

The second general order suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus in Mayari, which allows the Mayar government to arrest individuals "involved with the revolutionary movement and seditious actions." The first wave of arrests to come following the announcement of Martial Law were members of the opposition Socialist Action Party and the National Party. In a surprising move, critics of the Hidalgo administration from within his own Freedom Party have also been detained, including former president Senator Jacqueline Sagaysay.

The detention of members of the opposition the same day of the proclamation was followed quickly with the detention of the leaders of the MPDM and other organized labor groups.

Finally, the third general order illegalized all political parties and other "organizations colluding with the revolutionary movement or substantively harming stability in Mayari." Such organizations included labor unions, domestic and foreign think tanks, student groups, and major media establishments in Mayari.

Under Mayari's constitutional processes, a unilateral declaration of nationwide Martial Law by the President is allowed but shall be assessed by a bicameral conference of Congress following thirty days whether it shall be allowed to continue or not. The suspension of Congress and arrest of the opposition makes this nigh impossible now. Neither President Hidalgo in his broadcast nor the full text of the proclamation also makes mention of a specific date when Martial Law will be lifted. In his broadcast, the President has only stated that the state of affairs shall be returned to normalcy upon the "eradication of the CPM-MPRA."

The CPM-MPRA has not yet released a statement in response, but they are expected to continue engaging the Mayari Armed Forces with no end in sight. The Communist Party of Mayari has been leading the oldest socialist revolution in Ostara and continues to be a powerful force despite how long a time since they first raised arms.

The CPM-MPRA concluded another major operation yesterday when they seized three coastal towns and the capital of Ablan province after a month-long battle with the Mayari Armed Forces. An estimated 300 non-combatants have been caught in the crossfire and killed over the course of the fighting.

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Former Prime Minister Diêp Công Duông dies
By: Muong Quang Viên
Published: Vintyr 18, 1587


Late Prime Minister Diêp Công Duông.

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Hoinomese statesman Diêp Công Duông and longest-serving Prime Minister since the Ostaran nation recovered independence in 1510, died at the age of 87 yesterday, after being hospitalised with severe pneumonia on Treizen 4. Many regional leaders issued public condolences.

The son of a military commander who fought in the Hoinomese civil war (1515-1519) for the restoration of the monarchy, Diêp Công Duông enlisted in the Royal Armed Forces of Hôinôm, to serve as civil servant in the Ministry of Internal Affairs after early retirement. He started his political career during the so-called failed Hoinomese Liberal Revolution (1548-1550), when he was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs by Prime Minister Quang Quang Dùc. Duông became soon a prominent and powerful government official, crushing demonstrators and rebel forces with the use of harsh and draconian of police force.

When Quang Quang Dùc was forced to resign, Minister Diêp Công Duông was gave free hands to launch a nationwide crackdown of revolutionary and liberal forces, which demanded democratic elections and a constitution for Hôinôm. Human rights abuses were widespread, some claim up to 50,000 people resulted dead in clashes between security forces and revolutionary activists, but Duông was able to restore the order, and he was praised as the savior of the Hoinomese monarchy. In 1551, Emperor Nguyên appointed Diêp Công Duông as Prime Minister, an office he held for 19 years, until 1570.

Under his long tenure, the country did not experience political changes, but several modernization projects were started -specially on the fields of administrative reform and improvement of infraestructures- which was accompanied by a timid economic liberalization which attracted foreign investment, increased considerably the national GDP, although inequality was increased. During the last years of Queen Kiêu Thi Xuân's Regency, it was said that his influence decreased, and in 1570, only two years after Empress Hông was crowned monarch, Diêp Công Duông resigned.

Since then, Diêp Công Duông has lived a retired and calm existence, it is said, and he rarely attended the media. He was often visited by important Hoinomese officials in his country house nearby Nam Dinh, reportedly twice by Empress Hông herself. He only gave three interviews since his retirement seventeen years ago, mostly to Hoinomese conservative newspapers. It is unclear Diêp Công Duông's personal and political views about the events in recent years, when Hôinôm was forced to adopt several constitutional reforms and some form of political liberalization, including a limited national parliament, although Hoinomese government has not fulfilled its promises to pass a legal text which would may serve as the first written constitution since the monarchist restoration in 1519. In any case, Diêp Công Duông was widely respected by both conservatives and those considered his political rivals, or at least feared and accepted his past role as Hoinomese stateman.

Although Diêp Công Duông is expected to be buried nearby his country house in Western Hôinôm, Prime Minister Quang Công Quang has announced that a state funeral will be held in Hôi Luỳên in the coming days.

A week-long period of national mourning was declared by the Hoinomese government. All flags, including the national flag, will be flown at half-mast during that period.

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Mayari government declares neutrality as official policy
By: Filomeno Sandvik
Published: Marth, 1595


Mayari national parliament.

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The Mayari Congress has voted a controversial resolution declaring "neutrality" the official foreign policy of the country.

The resolution came only two weeks that the Mayari President announced that Mayari will not extend the current defense and military cooperation agreements that the Ostaran nation had with several countries, including Singan, Nyland, HLE or Kortoa.

The new government policy is not supported by everyone in Mayari, as critics and several opposition lawmakers accusing the president of "surrendering the national sovereignty" of the Democratic Republic of Mayari.

Mayari president, however, has declared that neutrality "does not mean isolationism" but rather "focus in our problems and interests first". He has declared that his government is negotiating a free trade agreement with the Tieguonese government in order to "strengthen our economy...and the relations between both countries".

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Hôinôm: Harsh sentences against 1590 coup conspirators
By: Muong Quang Viên
Published: Fein, 1597


Former Lieutenant-Colonel Phan Dùc Vinh was also sentenced to death.

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After one of the largest trials in recent Hoinomese history, which lasted almost ten months, the High Court of Hôi Luỳên read the sentences against those accused to plan and participate in te 1590 coup d'etat, which aimed to depose the Hoinomese government in the middle of a civil war. While the coup was successful in Hôi Luỳên, it failed both to depose government forces in other provinces -including Nam Dinh, were Empress Hông resided at the time- and the end the civil war, which was prolongued until following Tieguonese intervention. More than twenty accused were sentenced to serious charges including high treason, conspiracy against the state, war crimes, embezzlement, or conspiracy with a foreign government while only five of the accused were declared not guilty of the charges.

But the trial has been historical event in the Imperial Kingdom of Hôinôm mostly because it was the first time that military leadership and members of the Royal House -as Prince Lâm Thành Thuân and Princess Lâm Thu Tuyêt, who are Empress Hông's cousins- faced a trial. The verdict was certainly awaited, although there was more expectation about the future of the two members of the Hoinomese royal house facing the court, that in the result in itself. Much of the defences were often focused on putting the blame on late General Lê Công Thuân -who reportedly died following the Battle of Hôi Luỳên in early 1595- than denying some of the charges pending on them.

Six accused were sentenced to death, including General Kiêu Công Trai, who was considered the second highest ranking official in the regime established after the 1590 after General Lê, and Prince Lâm Thành Thuân, who becomes the first member of the Royal House to be sentenced to death at least since the restoration of the monarchy in early 16th century. Three of the other accused sentenced to death are also military officers, while the sixth is Nghiêm Vàn Minh, who served as de facto head of government in Hôi Luỳên from 1591 to 1594.

Other ten accused were sentenced to life imprisonment. Princess Lâm Thu Tuyêt was sentenced to 20 years in prison while her husband James Lloyd-Jones, a Goldecian national, was sentenced to 15 years and 10 months in prison. The rest of the accused received minor prison sentences. While the trial sentences must be confirmed by the High Court -also known as Imperial Court-, it is expected that it is not likely that it will be major changes in the final sentences.

The future of the accused sentenced, specially those facing death penalty, is uncertain, and there has been several rumours, still unconfirmed, that Empress Hông may pardon, completely or partially, at least the two members of the Royal House, or the two foreign nationals -besides the Goldecian national, a Mayari national was also sentenced. Prime Minister Quân Công Trai has declared that the government denies any conversation with the monarch regarding this possibility, although it would "discourage such decision and hopes the accused serve their sentence as any other Hoinomese citizen would", it is a constitutional competence of the monarch to do.

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Hôinôm: 1590 coup d'etat sentences reviewed by Imperial Decree
By: Muong Quang Viên
Published: Alvan, 1598


Lord James Lloyd-Jones, during happier times.

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Today it was surprisingly released an imperial decree signed by Empress Hông, in which the Hoinomese monarch pardoned several accused sentenced for the 1590 coup d'etat.

Such decree was rumoured and expected for months, but it was suddenly announced in the Imperial Bulletin, without previous announcement by the national government or suggested by any recent leaks. It is the second imperial decree of such characteristics following the amnesty given in which Alvan 1596, in which thousands of prisoners were given amnesty and released from jail, mostly for minor crimes and political sentences occurred before and during the Hoinomese civil war.

This imperial pardon, however, will only affect a small number of people. One of them is General Kiêu Công Trai who was sentenced to death by High Court of Hôi Luỳên for both his involvement in the 1590 coup d'etat and for his responsability in war crimes, between other charges. General Kiêu Công Trai received a partial pardon, being his sentence reduced for death penalty to life sentence. The imperial decree justified that change for his past contributions to the Hoinomese Armed Forces, but it is believed to be based in the fact that General Kiêu decided to surrender his troops following the Imperial Armed Forces victory in Hôi Luỳên, likely avoiding the Hoinomese troops to suffer thousands of loses in their march toward Vin Xuyên, where troops under General Kiêu's command were established at the time. Other two Hoinomese military officers received a similar reduction of sentence.

However, Prince Lâm Thành Thuân -who was rumoured to received a pardon- was not, an according to our sources, his sentence to death would remain unchanged by the decree. Unless there is a second imperial decree in the coming months, Prince Lâm Thành Thuân may become the first member of the Hoinomese royal house to be executed in modern history.

His sister Princess Lâm Thu Tuyêt, however, was pardoned in three of the five charges in which she was sentenced by the High Court of Hôi Luỳên. Therefore, her sentence will be reduced from 20 years in prison to 12 years. As she has already served three years in prison, that means that means that she may be released under probation or house arrest before five years, if a penal court gives its approval.

Her husband, James Lloyd-Jones, a Goldecian national, who was sentenced to 15 years in jail, saw commuted his whole sentence by the imperial decree and he could be released from jail in the coming hours. Lloyd-Jones, who is a minor member of the Goldecian royal house, according to a local newspaper, is likely to be immediately deported to Goldecia as soon as he is released.

However, the legal situation of the Lâm-Lloyd-Jones family is not likely to change. Two months ago, the Hoinomese parliament passed a law which established that individuals who were sentenced for charges which involved treason or conspiracy against the crown would automatically deprived of their children's custody. As consequence, Princess Lâm and James Llyod-Jones' three children are expected to remain in Hôinôm under custody of Empress Hông or other member of the Hoinomese royal family.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Quân Công Trai declared that the government may not fully agree with the imperial decree but they accept it as it is a constitutional competence of the Hoinomese monarch.