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Virus Outbreak: Tsai rebuffs Tedros’ racism accusation

Friday, 10 April 2020 06:28 Taipei Times

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 24.
Photo: Reuters

Taiwan knows better than anyone what it feels like to be discriminated against and isolated, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday, as she protested an accusation by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that Taiwan was organizing a racist campaign against him.

Virus Outbreak: Taiwan-born researcher the man behind N95 mask

Wednesday, 08 April 2020 06:37 Taipei Times

N95 particulate respirators are pictured in an arranged photograph in Hong Kong on Monday.
Photo: Bloomberg

The inventor of the key technology used in N95 respirator and medical masks is Taiwan-born scientist Peter Tsai (蔡秉燚), the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry Association said on Facebook on Monday.

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The words “villain” and “killer” were painted on a statue of former president Chiang Kai-shek in Taichung’s Jhongjheng Park, pictured yesterday.
Photo: Chang Ching-ya, Taipei Times

An usually high number of protests targeting statues of former president Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) have been reported across the nation in the wake of the 68th anniversary of the 228 Incident on Saturday.

A statue of Chiang erected in Taichung City’s Jhongjheng Park (中正公園) was found yesterday morning covered with white and red paint as well as ghost money, with the Chinese characters for “killer” and “villain” spray-painted on its pedestal.