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"I was afraid I would lose my mind due to boredom," Vice President Annette Lu (
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A dozen books and three decades later, Lu has established a reputation for herself as a political heavyweight and a woman of letters.
Lu's literary credentials made her the ideal keynote speaker yesterday at the opening ceremony of this year's Congress of the World Association of Women Journalists and Writers (AMMPE), a global organization promoting communication and solidarity among women writers and members of the press. The group was incorporated by founder Gloria Salas de Calderon in Mexico in 1969.
A coterie of A-list politicians, as well as women writers from around the world, attended the ceremony at the Agora Garden Hotel in Taipei to launch the four-day congress, which has been convened biennially in various locations worldwide for 37 years.
"Taipei is honored this year to host the congress," said Jennifer Shen (
The theme of this year's congress is media reform and the impact of the Internet and globalization on journalism.
Lu's keynote speech also raised eyebrows for its specific references to the pan-blue TV network TVBS.
Lu said that media reform in Taiwan should focus on "the right to know, the right not to know, and the right not to be known" -- the last two "rights" being veiled references to the proliferation of tabloid journalism and invasions of privacy, respectively, by local media.
"I could be walking down the street minding my own business, for example, and out pops a TVBS reporter," Lu said, referring to "the right not to be known."
With TVBS political talk show host Lee Yen-chiu (
Jennifer Shen later downplayed Lu's remarks, saying that the vice president was referring to the "influence" of Lee's show when she said "lethal force."
Former Taiwanese ambassador to Gautemala Gene Loh (
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