While attending a ceremony yesterday marking the 2,554th birthday of Confucius (
"We talked about many things -- except that," Ma said when asked by reporters whether the fight between Hsieh Ai-ling (
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
Interaction between Su and Ma was closely observed by local media following the recent hoopla in which Hsieh, the director of the Population Administration Department under the Ministry of the Interior, last Friday was reported to have screamed at a clerk working in the Taipei City Government's Wenshan office.
Hsieh reportedly screamed: "Don't you know who I am?" to the clerk after being told that she did not have the correct paperwork to secure a household registration, and that she would have to come back at a later time. It was not immediately clear if the clerk knew who Hsieh was, or why he should recognize the bureaucrat by sight.
Although Hsieh, accompanied by Su, on Monday held a news conference and apologized for having caused a stir, reports speculated that the incident would escalate into tension between the interior ministry and the Taipei City Government.
Su and Ma remained courteous at the event, where Su attended the event on behalf of President Chen Shui-bian (
A descendant of the sage was also present at the ceremony.
The 2,554 birth anniversary of Confucius was commemorated at Confucian temples around the country with traditional ceremonies, dancing, eulogy readings and incense and silk burning.
Dozens of elementary school students dressed in traditional yellow robes danced with feathers in their hands to a solemn drum beat.
The performance, dubbed the "display-presentation ceremony" is a part of an hour-long ceremony.
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:
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