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Japan’s Taro Aso visits Lee Teng-hui’s grave

Former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso visited former president Lee Teng-hui’s (李登輝) grave at a military cemetery in New Taipei City yesterday afternoon, shortly after arriving in Taiwan.

Aso was accompanied by members of his delegation, including Japanese lawmakers Keisuke Suzuki and Kenji Nakanishi, and Lee Teng-hui Foundation chairwoman Annie Lee (李安妮), Lee Teng-hui’s daughter.

Annie Lee thanked Aso for attending a public memorial for Lee Teng-hui at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan in August 2020 when he was Japanese deputy prime minister.

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China targeting placemaking: group

China is targeting projects to enhance public spaces in its “united front” tactics, a lawmaker said yesterday after New Taipei City-based cultural conservation group Am Kehnn Cultural Workshop (暗坑文化工作室) said that Beijing has conducted a covert campaign to infiltrate Taiwanese placemaking projects.

Taiwan’s placemaking scene is awash with Chinese money, Am Kehnn Cultural Workshop wrote on Facebook on Thursday, adding that almost every region in the nation was among the winners at a cross-strait construction and creation contest held by China’s Fujian Province.

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Vice President Chen Chien-jen, front row third right, former US secretary of health and human services Tom Price, center front, and other guests yesterday attend the opening of the 2019 Taiwan-US Global Cooperation Training Framework workshop on tuberculosis prevention in Taipei.
Photo: CNA

The US supports Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Assembly (WHA), which is to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from May 20 to 28, former US secretary of health and human services Tom Price and American Institute in Taiwan Director Brent Christensen said in Taipei yesterday.