Vice President Annette Lu (
Lu encouraged the special task force to reveal the facts of the case as soon as possible in order to answer the public's questions.
"If the law supports the Control Yuan's request, I would like to attend any investigative hearings as a victim in the case," Lu said on a chartered plane that was carrying her and her delegation to El Salvador.
"I hope that the task force will make every effort to arrive at the truth and keep the public informed of what is going on," Lu said.
"The longer it takes for the truth to come out, the worse it is for the government," Lu said.
The Control Yuan announced last week that it might invite the vice president to aid the investigation by relating her account of the assassination attempt.
Lu, on a state visit to three Central American countries, arrived yesterday in San Salvador, El Salvador's capital, after a two-day stopover in Las Vegas, Nevada.
She was asked by the media to comment on the Control Yuan's request for her cooperation. She said she hoped that the special task force would achieve breakthroughs when she returns home after her two-week trip.
On behalf of Chen, Lu will attend the inauguration of Salvadoran president-elect Elias Antonio Saca today.
The Salvadoran government held a welcoming ceremony for Lu and her entourage when their plane arrived at San Salvador's international airport.
In front of the hotel where Lu was to stay, more than 100 overseas Taiwanese waved Republic of China flags and chanted slogans to welcome the vice president.
Lu and her entourage will visit a residential community on the outskirts of San Salvador tomorrow. The community was built by Taiwan's largest charity -- the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation -- to accommodate displaced people after two devastating earthquakes rocked the country in 2001.
Lu will also meet with outgoing Salvadoran President Francisco Guillermo Flores Perez and president-elect Saca to discuss the two countries' relationship.
On the last day of her stopover in Las Vegas, Lu toured the Guggenheim Heritage Museum -- instead of the Hoover Dam, as had been planned.
Reporters were told that the change in plans came about after a doctor expressed concern about the injury that Lu had suffered in the assassination attempt.
The Hoover Dam, one of the largest dams in the world, is located on the Arizona-Nevada border about 35km from Las Vegas.
During her Guggenheim tour in downtown Las Vegas, Lu talked with museum officials about the prospects for Taichung becoming the first city in Asia to host a Guggenheim Museum.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching