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Shock as former Japan PM assassinated


A woman yesterday prays at a makeshift memorial set up in Nara, Japan, after former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead near the site.
Photo: AFP

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was yesterday assassinated on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire from behind as he delivered a campaign speech.

The 67-year-old Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving leader when he resigned in 2020, collapsed bleeding and was airlifted to a nearby hospital in Nara, although he was not breathing and his heart had stopped.

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TAO funded pro-unification patriotism party


Members of the pro-unification Concentric Patriotism Association stage a protest with Chinese national flags outside a venue decorated with the Republic of China flag where the Democratic Progressive PartY was holding its national congress in Taipei on Jan 17, 2008.
Photo: Liao Cheng-hui, Taipei Times

China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) funded the pro-unification Concentric Patriotism Association’s attempts to influence Taiwanese politics, the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office said yesterday.

The office issued a wanted notice for the association’s late chairman Chou Ching-chun’s (周慶峻) wife, Lin Ming-mei (林明美), and its secretary-general Zhang Xiuye (張秀葉) on charges of contravening the Anti-infiltration Act (反滲透法).

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Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Cheng Li-chiun, second right, and -academics hold a press conference in Taipei yesterday to criticize President Ma Ying-jeou’s suggestions about amending senior-high school history textbooks.
Photo: Wang Min-wei, Taipei Times

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Cheng Li-chiun (鄭麗君) and a group of historians yesterday urged President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) for the second time in as many months to stop interfering with high-school history textbooks and trying to inculcate kids with his own ideology.

“Ma’s comments at the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Central Standing Committee meeting on Wednesday were proof that he is behind the ‘de-Taiwanization’ of high-school textbooks,” Cheng told a press conference.