President Tag:President Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s first democratically elected president, dead at 97 Lee Teng-hui, who served as President of Taiwan from 1988 to 2000, died Thursday at Taipei Veterans General Hospital. The cause of his death was septic shock and multiple organ failure. He was...
Taiwan's 'Mr Democracy' Lee Teng-Hui Dies Aged 97 in Taipei More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui speaks during a news conference in Tokyo June 1, 2007. Lee received a prize in memory of Japanese colonial administrator Shinpei Goto by the Shinpei Goto Societ...
Lee Teng-hui, former leader of China's Taiwan region, died yesterday of illness at the age of 97. In February, Lee was rushed to hospital because he choked on milk and was then diagnosed with pulmonary infiltration. Since then, he had been intubated. Lee, the fourth leader of Taiwan and...
Reports the granting of visa to Taiwanese Prime Minister Lee Teng-hui for medical treatment by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. Support for pro-independent forces in Taiwan; Consequences of separatist activities; Agenda of Lee's visit to Japan. INSET: Untitled, by Geng Rongshui, Zhang Lin...
hard work.Meinong, a exceptionally picturesque town in Kaohsiung, is said to have produced more PhD holders relative to its population than anywhere else in Taiwan. Lee Teng-hui (1923-2020), a Hakka who has a PhD from Cornell University, became Taiwan’s first native-born president in 1988...
President Lee Teng-hui rankled mainland China by announcing in July 1999 that he was abandoning the long-standing “One China” policy that had kept the peace between the small island and its powerful neighbor and that he would from then on deal with China on a “state-to-state basis.” ...
Krach, who arrived in Taipei on Thursday afternoon, is in Taiwan for a memorial service on Saturday for former President Lee Teng-hui, who was revered by many on the island and internationally as the father of Taiwan's democracy. Krach is expected to meet Taiwan President ...
and expanded cross-Straits exchanges and cooperation in various fields. The CPC took firm action against separatist activities led by Lee Teng-hui, and struck hard at the separatist forces seeking "Taiwan independence". It en...
The [then] President Lee Teng-Hui pursued a policy of localization, the reason: it works efficiently as a ploy in preventing veterans [and their families] from voting for the New Party, which had separated from the KMT over Lee’s controversial “Taiwan-first” agenda. Chang Mao-Kuei (張...
and expanded cross-Straits exchanges and cooperation in various fields. The CPC took firm action against separatist activities led by Lee Teng-hui, and struck hard at the separatist forces seeking "Taiwan independence". It ens...