Veterans Affairs Council Minister Feng Shih-kuan (馮世寬) was in stable condition after being hospitalized on Thursday, the council said yesterday.
Feng, who served as the minister of national defense from 2016 to 2018, underwent stent surgery at Tri-Service General Hospital, council Deputy Minister Lee Wen-chung (李文忠) said.
Feng is breathing without an oxygen mask in an intensive care unit, Lee said.
Feng had been regularly visiting Taipei Veterans General Hospital for checkups on a heart condition until this year, when he transitioned to Tri-Service General Hospital, a source said on condition of anonymity.
The 76-year-old retired four-star general of the air force was
Taiwan in Time: For the love of campus freedom
After doing away with school censorship policies over student publications in December 1986, NTU students launched a failed bid against the government for complete university autonomy
By Han Cheung / Staff reporter
Dec. 21 to Dec. 27
A historic decision was made on Dec. 19, 1986 when the National Taiwan University (NTU) student council voted 83-0 to abolish school censorship of student publications.
The publications’ faculty advisers still had to inspect the contents and were allowed to attach any conflicting opinions at the end of each article, but the school could no longer stop the students or punish them for publishing content that they, and by extension the government, didn’t approve of.