The government should reopen the investigation into the homicide of Chen Wen-chen (陳文成), as questions about the incident four decades ago remain unresolved, the New Power Party said yesterday.
Chen, an assistant professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, returned to visit family in Taiwan in 1981 and was found dead near a library at National Taiwan University (NTU) on July 3 that year.
A day earlier, the 31-year-old democracy advocate had been detained and interrogated by the Taiwan Garrison Command, a state security force that has since been disbanded. Although Chen died 41 years ago, “the complete
By Chen Cheng-yu and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writerThree lawmakers yesterday promoted Yeh Shih-tao, A Taiwan Man （台灣男子葉石濤）, a documentary telling the story of Taiwanese writer Yeh Shih-tao （葉石濤）, directed by Hsu Huei-lin （許卉林）.
Three lawmakers yesterday promoted Yeh Shih-tao, A Taiwan Man (台灣男子葉石濤), a documentary telling the story of Taiwanese writer Yeh Shih-tao (葉石濤), directed by Hsu Huei-lin (許卉林).
Key Taiwan Forward members, including Democratic Progressive Party legislators Wang Ting-yu (王定宇), Chao Tien-lin (趙天麟) and Michelle Lin (林楚茵), at a news conference called on the public to join the special screenings of the film across Taiwan.
There are to be eight to 10 screenings of the documentary.
Executive producer Lin Ching-chieh (林靖傑) said that many of his friends warned him against being too close to politicians, but the documentary tells the story of a great literary
Former Presidential Office secretary-general Chang Tsu-i (張祖詒), at the age of 104, has published a book titled The President and I: A historical record of unusual times in politics (總統與我：政壇奇緣實錄).
In the book, Chang writes about a visit to the Dasi Archives in 1984 at the request of then-president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), to study dossiers and records relating to the 228 Incident.
The purpose was to allow Chang to investigate the role of the former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government at the time based in Nanjing to assess the extent to which it made mistakes and was responsible for the