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The State Journal-Register
April 29, 2018
... Tsar Nicholas II, Chiang Kai-Shek, Benito Mussolini and Fulgencio Batista, to name a few. Conservatives dislike the government because it forces conservatives to pitch in and help suffering strangers. Nature is survival of the fittest. The herd that keeps pace with its weakest members is sure to go extinct.
Business Mirror
April 29, 2018
Kick-start your first day with a visit to the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall. The late Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek had a highly controversial political career, but his role as a founding president of Taiwan earned him a sprawling memorial hall. The picturesque ground composed of the iconic Liberty SquareÃâà...
Taiwan News
April 20, 2018
On Friday, the college announced that 62.93 percent voted to keep the statue of Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China and of the Kuomintang, in the same spot, while only 46.72 percent opted to keep the Chiang Kai-shek statue. In effect, this means that the latter did not garner enough votes toÃâà...
Nikkei Asian Review
April 10, 2018
TAIPEI -- Some members of Taiwan's governing Democratic Progressive Party are calling for a redesign of bank notes and coins to remove the portrait of Chiang Kai-shek, who used authoritarian tactics to establish one-party rule on the island that lasted until 1996. About 11.4 billion coins with Chiang'sÃâà...
Hong Kong Free Press
April 4, 2018
Protesters who vandalised the tomb of a former nationalist ruler in Taiwan have been charged in a case that highlights divided opinion on how to deal with the island's authoritarian past. Ten people splashed red paint on Chiang Kai-shek's coffin in late February, on the 71st anniversary of a nationalistÃâà...
Focus Taiwan News Channel
April 3, 2018
Taipei, April 3 (CNA) The Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office on Tuesday indicted 10 people for vandalizing the tomb of late President Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) by splashing red paint on his tomb at the Cihu Mausoleum in Taoyuan. The 10 people from a pro-Taiwan independence group daubed Chiang'sÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 28, 2018
When Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan in 1949 having lost China's civil war, he brought with him 600,000 pieces from the Imperial collection. Most of the rest remains in the Beijing's Forbidden City – and China has never been happy that 20 per cent of the emperors' proudest possessions are in Taipei.
Taiwan News
March 27, 2018
President Chiang Kai-shek on the NT$200 note (photo courtesy of Chi-Hung Lin). (By Wikimedia Commons). TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The government has no plans to change banknotes or coins in order to remove effigies of President Chiang Kai-shek, Premier William Lai (賴清德) said Tuesday.
U.S. News & World Report
March 25, 2018
The Vatican's last diplomat on the mainland was expelled in 1951 and the Holy See mission settled in Taiwan, to where Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government fled in 1949 after its defeat by the communist armies of Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Since the 1970sÃâà...
The Manila Times
March 22, 2018
Cagayan De Oro (CDO) native Inand Fornillos led the Greenies with 17 points and 11 rebounds while Joel Cagulangan and Joshua Marcos added 14 and 11 respectively. With the victory, the Greenies take on Chiang Kai Shek College in the final four. Chiang Kai Shek, on the other hand, formalized theirÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 22, 2018
... few and far between. Some number the history of their business in decades, others more than a century, but three stand out for their longevity and signature dishes which have proven timeless in their appeal. What do Dr Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Ho Chi Minh and Chow Yun-fat all have in common?
Taiwan News
March 15, 2018
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – If the new transitional justice legislation requires it, symbols of authoritarian rule such as effigies of President Chiang Kai-shek could be removed from the country's banknotes and coins, new Central Bank Governor Yang Chin-long (楊金龍) said Thursday. The government isÃâà...
New Bloom (blog)
March 13, 2018
The bodies of Chiang Kai-Shek and Chiang Ching-Kuo are entombed in two black marble sarcophaguses in Cihu, where they are on public display. The preserved bodies of both Chiangs were formerly displayed, much in the manner of the preserved bodies of Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin,Ãâà...
The Straits Times
February 28, 2018
TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwanese protesters on Wednesday (Feb 28) splashed red paint on the tomb of former Nationalist ruler Chiang Kai-shek, urging the government to speed up a plan to erase symbols of the island's authoritarian past. The protest came on the 71st anniversary of a Nationalist massacreÃâà...
Taipei Times
February 28, 2018
A group of young independence supporters yesterday hurled red paint on the sarcophagus of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) in a step-up from past displays calling for an end to continued worship of him. About 20 people entered the hall containing Chiang's sarcophagus at his mausoleum in Taoyuan's DasiÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
February 28, 2018
Barricades are placed at the entrance of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei after protesters splashed red paint on the tomb of former ruler ... 28 massacre on Wednesday, as the tomb of late Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who presided over the killing, was covered by activists with red paintÃâà...
Hong Kong Free Press
February 28, 2018
Taiwanese protesters Wednesday splashed red paint on the tomb of former Nationalist ruler Chiang Kai-shek, urging the government to speed up a plan to erase symbols of the island's authoritarian past. The protest came on the 71st anniversary of a Nationalist massacre estimated to have killed as manyÃâà...
New York Times
February 28, 2018
Young protesters in the northern city of Taoyuan, carrying an anti-China banner, splashed red paint on the tomb of Chiang Kai-shek, the generalissimo who fled to Taiwan after losing China's civil war to the Communists and who declared martial law on the island that lasted until 1987, 12 years after hisÃâà...
Hong Kong Free Press
December 31, 1999
While Mao thus proclaimed the People's Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek declared the Republic of China of Taiwan. Both claimed to represent the singular, real China. After Chiang's death in 1975, liberalisations began in Taiwan that paved the road for the first free parliamentary elections in 1992.
