News Source: Taiwan News
| almost 2 years ago
He is an old soldier now, almost as old as the republic he fought to defend. As Taiwan marks the centenary of the Republic of China this year, 97-year-old Wei Hsien-wen can reflect on what was _ and what might have been.
News Source: China News
| almost 2 years ago
Taiwan set up a new anti-corruption agency Wednesday in the wake of a series of graft scandals involving officials, politicians and judges. The new agency, under the island's judicial department, is made up of 240 officials with Chou Chih-jung as its
News Source: Taiwan News
| almost 2 years ago
Former President Lee Teng-hui and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen joined Sunday in the chorus of people criticizing the government's agricultural policy, echoing the appeals of local farmers demonstrating in Taipei.
News Source: Asia Times Online
| almost 2 years ago
Taiwan's former president Lee Teng-hui, known as "father of Taiwan's democracy", faces prosecution on corruption and money laundering charges. If convicted, the two democratically elected former presidents of the island will both have been disgraced.
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| almost 2 years ago
Taiwan's deputy customs chief and 10 officials and businessmen have been arrested and taken into custody in the latest corruption scandal to hit the island, prosecutors said Friday. Lu Tsai-yih and three civil servants were suspected of taking bribes
News Source: The Economist
| almost 2 years ago
The man who changed Taiwan AT THE end of June a bombshell burst over Taiwan's former leader, Lee Teng-hui. The island's first democratically elected president, who ruled in between 1988 and 2000, was indicted for embezzlement and money-laundering.
News Source: Taiwan News
| almost 2 years ago
Former President Lee Teng-hui professed innocence Friday after being indicted a day earlier for allegedly embezzling state funds while in office from 1988-2000. "The accusation made by the Special Investigation Division in its indictment against me
News Source: Examiner
| almost 2 years ago
In this Sept. 5, 2009 file photo, former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui smiles during a forum in Tokyo, Japan. A Taiwanese prosecutor said Lee, who served as president between 1988 and 2000, was indicted Thursday, June 30, 2011, on a charge of