Chiang Fang Chih-yi (
Writing in his blog (
MISSING NURSE
"If my great grandfather and grandfather had left the KMT with any reputation, at least 60 percent of that reputation was tarnished by Mr Lien and that missing nurse at Chi Mei Hospital," the young Chiang wrote.
Chen and Vice President Annette Lu (
Demos Chiang yesterday refused to comment on reactions to his article, but his mother apologized to Lien.
"My son expressed his opinions without consideration. I regret his remarks, and I apologize to [former] chairman Lien," she said yesterday in Taipei.
Chiang Fang said she respected her son's opinion, but would advise him not to name names when making critical statements.
'LOW TRICK'
In his blog, Demos Chiang condemned Lien and the "anonymous nurse" for "playing a low trick" by messing around with the election result and causing serious damage to Taiwan's democracy.
The young Chiang said that KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (
Responding to Demos Chiang's statement, KMT Secretary-General Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) yesterday said that the party respected the young Chiang's opinion, but urged him to gaina better understanding of the situation during the 2004 presidential election before making further comments.
INTERPRETATION
Ting Yuan-chao (
Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY FLORA WANG
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A decision to describe a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement on Singapore’s Taiwan policy as “erroneous” was made because the city-state has its own “one China policy” and has not followed Beijing’s “one China principle,” Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tien Chung-kwang (田中光) said yesterday. It has been a longstanding practice for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to speak on other countries’ behalf concerning Taiwan, Tien said. The latest example was a statement issued by the PRC after a meeting between Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (黃循財) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) on the sidelines of the APEC summit
A road safety advocacy group yesterday called for reforms to the driver licensing and retraining system after a pedestrian was killed and 15 other people were injured in a two-bus collision in Taipei. “Taiwan’s driver’s licenses are among the easiest to obtain in the world, and there is no mandatory retraining system for drivers,” Taiwan Vision Zero Alliance, a group pushing to reduce pedestrian fatalities, said in a news release. Under the regulations, people who have held a standard car driver’s license for two years and have completed a driver training course are eligible to take a test
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