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Wu stands by sexist epithet for Tsai

Thursday, 19 December 2019 06:04 Taipei Times

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Den-yih, right, speaks at a rally for KMT presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu at the Armed Forces Club in Taipei on Tuesday.
Photo copied by Wang Shu-hsiu, Taipei Times

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) yesterday defended calling President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) an “ill-starred woman” (衰尾查某, literally “droopy-tailed woman”) on Tuesday, despite criticism from politicians across party lines.

Sweden, Taiwan hold first climate meeting in Madrid

Monday, 16 December 2019 06:25 Taipei Times

Environmental Protection Administration Minister Chang Tzi-chin, left, shakes hands with Mattias Frumerie, head of Sweden’s delegation to the 25th Conference of the Parties, on the sidelines of the conference in Madrid on Thursday.
Photo courtesy of the Representative Office of Taiwan in Sweden via CNA

Sweden on Thursday held its first bilateral talks on climate change with Taiwan at the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) in Madrid.

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Newsflash

Taiwan has become the object of a US congressional battle, with a Republican candidate accusing his Democrat opponent in a new TV ad of violating house rules by having lobbyists pay for a US$22,000 trip to Taiwan last year — except there’s a problem: the ad shows the Chinese flag as a backdrop.

The ad, paid for by Republican congressional candidate Matt Doheny, has led to some head scratching in the US and accusations that the “inflammatory” error could mislead the US public.