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■ BUSINESS

Gou to support 2010 expo

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co chairman Terry Gou (郭台銘) announced yesterday he would sponsor the Taipei City Government’s participation in the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. The city government’s efforts in establishing Taipei as a wireless city and promoting recycling gained the recognition of the expo committee and it was invited to exhibit the city’s efforts at the event in Shanghai. Announcing the news at a press conference, Gou said his company would donate NT$500 million (US$16 million) to help the city government set up its exhibition. Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌), who will travel to Shanghai today to sign the contract and examine the location, thanked Gou for the gesture.



■ SOCIETY

Men's Crisis Center opens

Kaohsiung City has opened a crisis center for men who have been victims of assaults by their female partners, local radio said on Saturday. The Kaohsiung City Government has opened the Men’s Crisis Center as the number of cases of wives assaulting husbands has risen from 730 in 2006 to 823 last year. This accounted for 12.7 and 13.8 percent of all the family violence cases reported in 2006 and last year respectively, Broadcasting Corp of China reported. The center has opened a hotline for men to report domestic violence and seek help. To avoid embarrassing the callers, social workers who operate the hotline are all men. A staffer from the Kaohsiung Home Violence Center said attacks on husbands had always existed, but people did not often hear of them because many victims feared losing face.



■ POLITICS

Official denies KMT charges

A former national security official has denied charges reportedly made by senior officials in the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government that the former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration failed to hand over files related to negotiations between Taiwan and Japan. The Chinese-language United Evening News on Saturday quoted anonymous senior government sources as saying that the National Security Council (NSC) could not find the files because the DPP took them away and did not put them on the handover list. However, Lin Cheng-wei (林成蔚), director of the DPP’s Department of International Affairs and a former NSC advisory commissioner, said that the files were handed over to the KMT administration, which took office on May 20. Lin said that the NSC kept all the files.



■ POLITICS

Chuang cancels fast plan

Former Ministry of Education chief secretary Chuang Kuo-jung (莊國榮) yesterday canceled his plan to stage a hunger strike in front of the Presidential Office starting on July 1. Chuang caused controversy in March when he used profanity while implying that President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) late father had a sexual relationship with his goddaughter. As a result of the remark, National Chengchi University decided on Thursday not to renew his teaching contract, saying that his behavior had disgraced the school. Chuang announced the strike plan on Saturday, saying that he wanted to protest the school’s decision, which he said was in violation of procedural justice and would cause him to lose his teaching qualification. But, a day after Chuang announced his hunger strike, he said he called it off because the Presidential Office was too sensitive a location and would cause unnecessary problems.
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