Focus Taiwan 2011/02/28 Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Taiwan’s last official stationed in Libya has left the strife-torn North African country and is scheduled to return to Taiwan Tuesday, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) official said Monday. “As of now, there is only one Taiwanese businessman still in Libya to take care of his...
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Focus Taiwan 2011/02/28 Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Taiwan’s government officials, political opposition and victims’ families remembered the 228 Incident in their own ways Monday, the 64th anniversary of the tragedy that left tens of thousands of people dead. In a violent suppression of anti-government uprisings that began on Feb. 28, 1947 — two years...
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The China Post March 1, 2011 TAIPEI — Former Vice President Annette Lu has not been given much of a chance of becoming the opposition Democratic Progressive Party’s nomination in the 2012 presidential election, but she defended her candidacy and her chance of victory on Monday. “Don’t assume I will lose in the DPP...
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The China Post March 1, 2011 TAIPEI — The Ministry of National Defense said Monday that a contract to supply ammunition to the U.S. had not been extended, but dismissed a media report that an arsenal will have to be closed as a result. The U.S. armed forces signed the contract five years ago...
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The China Post March 1, 2011 TAIPEI — If the Internet had existed in 1947, the 228 uprising that led to deaths of tens of thousands of Taiwanese at the hands of Chiang Kai-shek would have been recognized like today’s Tunisian Jasmine Revolution, a man who lost his father in the uprising said at...
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