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Full text of President Tsai's inaugural address

Taipei, May 20 (CNA) The following is the full text of President Tsai Ing-wen's (蔡英文) inaugural address as released by the Presidential Office Friday:

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Global focus is the way forward

The administration of Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), who is to be inaugurated as president today, is seeking to bolster its economic ties with ASEAN through its “new southbound policy,” but turning toward ASEAN is just one of the many options Tsai could chose to help resolve an economic slowdown that has plagued the nation for so many years.

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DPP revises parade plan after criticism


Protesters yesterday hold a news conference on Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei to speak against the incoming government’s decision to showcase slogans from past social movements as part of the performance at president-elect Tsai Ing-wen’s inauguration today.
Photo: CNA

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday said it would remove a controversial section of the parade to celebrate the presidential inauguration today, following criticism from social groups.

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Working together to create a new society

Tomorrow, president-elect Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is to be sworn in as the nation’s president. Officially, she will become president of the Republic of China (ROC). However, the world will know her as the president of Taiwan. The occasion represents a fresh start in many ways — for she is also the nation’s first female head of state.

On May 20, 1996, then-president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) started his second term as president, this time as the first directly elected ROC president. It was the beginning of a new epoch for Taiwan, the democratic era born of the “silent revolution.”

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Newsflash


Police, fire department personnel and bystanders assist the injured in the aftermath of a bomb blast near the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday.
Photo: EPA / Stuart Cahill, The Boston Herald

The FBI’s investigation into the bombings at the Boston Marathon was in full swing yesterday, with authorities serving a warrant on a suburban Boston home and appealing for any private video, audio and still images of the blasts that killed three people and wounded more than 140.

Officials said no one had claimed responsibility for the bombings on one of the city’s most famous civic holidays, Patriots’ Day, but the blasts that left the streets spattered with blood and glass raised fears of a terrorist attack.