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Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation

History, deceit and fabrication

History provides a record of social activity and acts as a tool for dialogue between modern society and the past.

Truth and objectivity are two fundamental elements that are exposed through the writing of history. History provides images of warmth and prosperity, as well as death and hardship. It is populated with noble and honorable figures, as well as lowly and contemptible figures. Some issues might feel sordid or shameful when talked about, while others might sound stupid and make people feel uncomfortable. It is historians’ responsibility to interpret and record historical facts. Any intentional editing, removal or embroidering of these facts is inappropriate.

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Lee Teng-hui brushes off KMT barbs as politicking


Former president Lee Teng-hui talks to the media outside the venue of a fundraising dinner for the Lee Teng-hui Foundation in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times

Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) yesterday said the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) vituperative attacks on him over an interview he gave to a Japanese magazine were baseless and were an attempt to win votes.

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Student protesters return from walk across nation


Students Hsu Kuan-tse, left, and Chou Tzu-hsiang, accompanied by supporters, walk through downtown Taipei yesterday on the final leg of a nationwide walking tour to protest changes to high-school curriculum guidelines.
Photo: Weng Yu-huang, Taipei Times

Two student-rights advocates returned to the main site of protests over high-school curriculum guideline changes yesterday, completing a national walking tour to highlight the issue.

Hsu Kuan-tse (許冠澤) and Chou Tzu-hsiang (周子翔) led a parade of students and rights advocates in front of the Ministry of Education building for the final leg of the tour, shouting: “Reject black box procedures”; “Oppose brain-washing education”; and “Students are not idiots” as they marched in pouring rain to the ministry gates.

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Ma’s ineptitude new consensus in Taiwan: Tsai


Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu, second left, listens as Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen addresses a crowd at the International Convention Center Kaohsiung yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Despite the nation’s serious political partisanship, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday said that a consensus over President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) ineptitude has formed between the pan-green and pan-blue camps while announcing her five reform proposals.

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Newsflash


A medical worker holds up a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital in New Taipei City on Wednesday last week.
Photo: Sam Yeh, AFP

The US was yesterday to ship 2.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan, a senior US administration official told Reuters, more than tripling Washington’s previous allocation of shots for the nation.