President Chen Shui-bian (
"When I served as a legislator my aides made mistakes, such as miscalculating figures or misplacing decimal points at times," Chen said.
"I always encouraged them not to be afraid of these experiences because I would be able to help them improve," Chen said.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has responded to DPP attacks regarding KMT Chairman and presidential candidate Lien Chan's (
A DPP campaign booklet focusing on Lien's real estate holdings said that Lien owned 699.45 hectares of land and apartments in Taipei. In a second version of the booklet, the figure was changed to 699.45 kungmu. The KMT says that the second figure is inflated as well because it is expressed in the wrong unit, and it should in fact be 699.45m2.
The Presidential Office yesterday sponsored a gathering at which the president welcomed incoming members of the Second Presidential Office Fellows corps, who will work as volunteers in public affairs over the coming year.
Chen praised the young generation for its creativity and vision, which he said are the driving force behind bringing progress to the government and the country.
"During my time as a legislator, I never ignored my aides' proposals or their suggestions, even ones that weren't mature," Chen said. "I read what they wrote with a sense of respect and tried my best to derive maximum benefit from their ideas."
Chen said that many talented young people have assisted him in his political career.
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Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai Cheng-hsiu (蔡政修) led the team that discovered the largest snake fossil ever found in Taiwan. The single trunk vertebra was discovered in Tainan at the Chiting Formation, dated to between 400,000 and 800,000 years ago in the Middle Pleistocene, the paper said. The area also produced Taiwan’s first avian fossil, as well as crocodile, mammoth, saber-toothed cat and rhinoceros fossils, it said. Discoveries
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Whether Japan would help defend Taiwan in case of a cross-strait conflict would depend on the US and the extent to which Japan would be allowed to act under the US-Japan Security Treaty, former Japanese minister of defense Satoshi Morimoto said. As China has not given up on the idea of invading Taiwan by force, to what extent Japan could support US military action would hinge on Washington’s intention and its negotiation with Tokyo, Morimoto said in an interview with the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times) yesterday. There has to be sufficient mutual recognition of how Japan could provide
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