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Tsai apologizes for taking credit for NYC purchase

Tuesday, 27 August 2019 05:32 Taipei Times

President Tsai Ing-wen, left, and Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung, waving, accompanied by other officials, wave yesterday while inspecting a bridge in Penghu.
Photo: CNA

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday acknowledged that she had confused the facts surrounding the purchase of the building housing the nation’s representative office in New York City during a speech she gave on Aug. 17 in Taichung, following criticism from former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁).

Water cannon trucks deployed in HK

Monday, 26 August 2019 05:13 Taipei Times

A police vehicle equipped with a water cannon clears a road of barricades set up by protesters during a rally in Hong Kong’s New Territories yesterday.
Photo: EPA-EFE

Police in Hong Kong yesterday used tear gas to clear pro-democracy demonstrators who had taken over a street and brought out water cannon trucks for the first time in the summer-long protests.

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The government yesterday called off a plan to send a delegation made up of members of the Executive Yuan to Washington to contain the fallout from the legislature’s move to bar imports of certain US beef products.

Instead, a delegation mainly made up of lawmakers and representatives from non-governmental organizations would head to the US on a fact-finding trip, Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) said at a press conference yesterday.