The National Security Bureau yesterday denied a report that former president Lee Teng-hui (
The latest issue of the weekly Next Magazine, which hit the newsstands yesterday, claimed that the National Police Agency had tried to recall some of the guards, but to no avail.
`baseless'
Dismissing the report as "baseless," the bureau issued a statement saying that Lee had reduced the number of security guards to 12 in accordance with amended regulations, which took effect in January.
The revision sets the number at eight to 12.
Meanwhile, the Presidential Office also blasted the weekly magazine yesterday for another report alleging that it was planning to spend more than NT$20 million (US$625,000) to buy new cars for President Chen Shui-bian (
new officers
While confirming the planned purchase of five limousines next year, Presidential Office Spokes-man David Lee (李南陽) said that the vehicles would be bought for the new president, his or her spouse, the new vice president, former president Lee and former vice president Lien.
The Next Magazine report also alleged that Chen had violated the regulations on placing staffers that would be working at his office after his term expires on the payroll of the Presidential Office.
chen staff
The Presidential Office spokesman said that staffers employed by Chen Shui-bian after he leaves office would not come from the Presidential Office.
As such, their salaries would come from the monthly allowance allocated to President Chen after his term expires, David Lee said.
Four factors led to the declaration of a typhoon day and the cancelation of classes yesterday, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) said. Work and classes were canceled across Taiwan yesterday as Typhoon Krathon was forecast to make landfall in the southern part of the country. However, northern Taiwan had only heavy winds during the day and rain in the evening, leading some to criticize the cancelation. Speaking at a Taipei City Council meeting yesterday, Chiang said the decision was made due to the possibility of landslides and other problems in mountainous areas, the need to avoid a potentially dangerous commute for those
There are 77 incidents of Taiwanese travelers going missing in China between January last year and last month, the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) said. More than 40 remain unreachable, SEF Secretary-General Luo Wen-jia (羅文嘉) said on Friday. Most of the reachable people in the more than 30 other incidents were allegedly involved in fraud, while some had disappeared for personal reasons, Luo said. One of these people is Kuo Yu-hsuan (郭宇軒), a 22-year-old Taiwanese man from Kaohsiung who went missing while visiting China in August. China’s Taiwan Affairs Office last month said in a news statement that he was under investigation
PRO-CHINA SLOGANS: Two DPP members criticized police officers’ lack of action at the scene, saying that law enforcement authorities should investigate the incident Chinese tourists allegedly interrupted a protest in Taipei on Tuesday held by Hong Kongers, knocked down several flags and shouted: “Taiwan and Hong Kong belong to China.” Hong Kong democracy activists were holding a demonstration as Tuesday was China’s National Day. A video posted online by civic group Hong Kong Outlanders shows a couple, who are allegedly Chinese, during the demonstration. “Today is China’s National Day, and I won’t allow the displaying of these flags,” the male yells in the video before pushing some demonstrators and knocking down a few flagpoles. Radio Free Asia reported that some of the demonstrators
China is attempting to subsume Taiwanese culture under Chinese culture by promulgating legislation on preserving documents on ties between the Minnan region and Taiwan, a Taiwanese academic said yesterday. China on Tuesday enforced the Fujian Province Minnan and Taiwan Document Protection Act to counter Taiwanese cultural independence with historical evidence that would root out misleading claims, Chinese-language media outlet Straits Today reported yesterday. The act is “China’s first ad hoc local regulations in the cultural field that involve Taiwan and is a concrete step toward implementing the integrated development demonstration zone,” Fujian Provincial Archives deputy director Ma Jun-fan (馬俊凡) said. The documents
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