President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) was urged yesterday not to forget “the nature and true color of the Chinese Communists” and to uphold the sovereignty of the Republic of China.
Accusing Taiwanese police of “using force against their countrymen and women,” Taipei City Councilor Lee Wen-ying (李文英) of the Democratic Progressive Party said: “Human rights in Taiwan have been lost as a result of the force used by police against anti-China protesters” at venues visited by Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait Chairman Chen Yunlin (陳雲林) in the past two days.
Lee went to the Presidential Office to present several books and an appeal to Ma, calling on him not to sacrifice the nation’s sovereignty.
Explaining her actions, Lee said that Mao Zedong’s Quotations and the Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published by the Epoch Times — represent the most telling record of the Chinese Communists’ “vicious and unscrupulous nature.”
Another book she presented, former president Lee Teng-hui’s (李登輝) The Taiwanese in a New Era, argues that Taiwanese should “outperform the era” and that the country’s president should represent the people of Taiwan rather than himself, she said.
Records of China’s Judicial Persecution of Taiwanese Businessmen, meanwhile, is an account of Taiwanese businesspeople in China who were “rejected” by Chen and his aides after they were exploited and bullied, she said.
Hong Kong singer Andy Lau’s (劉德華) concert in Taipei tonight has been cancelled due to Typhoon Kong-rei and is to be held at noon on Saturday instead, the concert organizer SuperDome said in a statement this afternoon. Tonight’s concert at Taipei Arena was to be the first of four consecutive nightly performances by Lau in Taipei, but it was called off at the request of Taipei Metro, the operator of the venue, due to the weather, said the organizer. Taipei Metro said the concert was cancelled out of consideration for the audience’s safety. The decision disappointed a number of Lau’s fans who had
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Commuters in Taipei picked their way through debris and navigated disrupted transit schedules this morning on their way to work and school, as the city was still working to clear the streets in the aftermath of Typhoon Kong-rey. By 11pm yesterday, there were estimated 2,000 trees down in the city, as well as 390 reports of infrastructure damage, 318 reports of building damage and 307 reports of fallen signs, the Taipei Public Works Department said. Workers were mobilized late last night to clear the debris as soon as possible, the department said. However, as of this morning, many people were leaving messages
A Canadian dental assistant was recently indicted by prosecutors after she was caught in August trying to smuggle 32kg of marijuana into Taiwan, the Aviation Police Bureau said on Wednesday. The 30-year-old was arrested on Aug. 4 after arriving on a flight to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Chang Tsung-lung (張驄瀧), a squad chief in the Aviation Police Bureau’s Criminal Investigation Division, told reporters. Customs officials noticed irregularities when the woman’s two suitcases passed through X-ray baggage scanners, Chang said. Upon searching them, officers discovered 32.61kg of marijuana, which local media outlets estimated to have a market value of more than NT$50 million (US$1.56
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