The Lee Teng-hui Foundation yesterday said that it hopes soon to sign a memorandum of understanding with National Taiwan University (NTU) to establish a memorial library dedicated to former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝).
The foundation in July last year announced that the university had agreed to house a memorial library to Lee at its College of Law building on Xuzhou Road in Taipei.
Unlike the Chiang Ching-kuo Presidential Library, opened yesterday at the Ching-kuo Chi-hai Cultural Park (經國七海文化園區) in Taipei’s Dazhi (大直) area, which was funded through the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange with government funding, Lee’s library would be
FAIR JUDGEMENT: Chiang Ching-kuo’s defense of Taiwan unites many Taiwanese, and his presidential library would help people understand the nation’s past, Tsai saidBy Yang Hsin-hui and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Leaders of pro-localization organizations yesterday urged the public to vote “no” on tomorrow’s four referendums, as they accused the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) of collaborating with China to ruin Taiwan’s economy and thereby isolate it from the international community.
On the ballot will be questions related to banning pork imports containing traces of the leanness-enhancing additive ractopamine, relocation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project to protect algal reefs off Taoyuan’s Guanyin District (觀音), resuming construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮) and holding referendums alongside national elections.
The Democratic Progressive Party government has
By Jason Pan / Staff reporterLeaders of pro-localization organizations yesterday urged the public to vote “no” on tomorrow’s four referendums, as they accused the Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） of collaborating with China to ruin Taiwan’s economy and thereby isolate it from the international community.
The Taiwanese Cultural Association recently celebrated its centennial anniversary. On Friday and Saturday, the Ministry of Education also held a conference on local cultural education to dig beneath the surface into Taiwanese culture and “indigenous education”; the conference was rich in historical significance.
Since the association’s establishment in 1921, the concept of “Taiwan belongs to Taiwanese” has become a core spirit in Taiwan-focused cultural education. However, indigenous cultural education was interrupted for more than half a century by “imperialization movements” first under Japanese colonial rule, and then during the Martial Law era under the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime.
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