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MND censures 24 officers over Ching Fu


Then-vice minister of national defense Lee Hsi-ming, who is currently serving as the chief of general staff, is pictured on Feb. 24.
Photo: Tu Chu-min, Taipei Times

The Ministry of National Defense (MND) yesterday censured a number of top navy officers, including Vice Minister of National Defense Admiral Pu Tze-chun (蒲澤春) and Chief of General Staff Admiral Lee Hsi-ming (李喜明), in connection with a minesweeper procurement scandal.

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Groups mark 40th anniversary of Jhongli Incident


Free Taiwan Party Chairman Tsay Ting-kuei, left, speaks at a rally on the 40th anniversary of the Jhongli Incident outside the Jhongli Police Station in Taoyuan yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Several civic groups and pro-independence organizations yesterday gathered outside a police station in Taoyuan to mark the 40th anniversary of the Jhongli Incident (中壢事件), which is considered a watershed event in Taiwan’s democracy movement.

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Newsflash


Former president Chen Shui-bian steps out of a prison van as he is taken to attend a session at the Taiwan High Court on June 29.
Photo courtesy of Taipei Press Photographers’ Association

Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) said yesterday that he was working on his seventh book in jail and that he expected the One Side, One Country Alliance (一邊一國連線) he established to make great strides in municipal elections in 2014.

Chen, who has been in prison since he was convicted of corruption in December 2008, said he “would definitely go out of prison alive and keep working toward his goal of one country on each side” in a press release issued by his office yesterday.