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"I'm getting married in September. That would mean that I would be having the baby right as I got married. Use your heads and think about it. Doesn't the media have any common sense?" she said angrily.
Local Chinese-language media reported yesterday that the story of her alleged pregnancy is set to be published in a new magazine this week. This week just happens to be launch of Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) new racy Chinese-language weekly Next.
Following up on the rumors, members the media cornered the president's daughter at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (
Chen was stopped on her way to the bathroom and stood in her office doorway glaring at reporters and cameras. She first asked that cameras be turned off, but cameramen continued to tape her comments regarding the accusations while she lost her temper.
"I know there is the freedom of the press, but what about individual freedom? I can't even get to the bathroom," she yelled.
Chen, 35, has plans to become officially engaged to NTU physician Chao Chien-min (趙建銘) on July 1.
Chao first received public attention when he faced allegations that he dodged military service.
Now, Chao's future mother-in-law and first lady Wu Shu-chen (吳淑珍) is preparing to have a two-hour discussion with Chao and has already warned the erstwhile "playboy" not to have any more girlfriends after he marries her daughter.
When interviewed yesterday, Chao told members of the media to stay away from her fiance.
At the dental clinic, after about seven to eight minutes of furious yelling, one reporter asked if Chen would press charges.
"No matter what, you're going to report it however you want. What would you suggest I do? What can I do?" she said.
The US government has signed defense cooperation agreements with Japan and the Philippines to boost the deterrence capabilities of countries in the first island chain, a report by the National Security Bureau (NSB) showed. The main countries on the first island chain include the two nations and Taiwan. The bureau is to present the report at a meeting of the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee tomorrow. The US military has deployed Typhon missile systems to Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture and Zambales province in the Philippines during their joint military exercises. It has also installed NMESIS anti-ship systems in Japan’s Okinawa
‘WIN-WIN’: The Philippines, and central and eastern European countries are important potential drone cooperation partners, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung said Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) in an interview published yesterday confirmed that there are joint ventures between Taiwan and Poland in the drone industry. Lin made the remark in an exclusive interview with the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister paper). The government-backed Taiwan Excellence Drone International Business Opportunities Alliance and the Polish Chamber of Unmanned Systems on Wednesday last week signed a memorandum of understanding in Poland to develop a “non-China” supply chain for drones and work together on key technologies. Asked if Taiwan prioritized Poland among central and eastern European countries in drone collaboration, Lin
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