Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-02
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Presidential Office has approved an application by former Vice President 
Wu Den-yih to travel to the United States later this month, reports said Friday.
Earlier, the government sank a plan by former President Ma Ying-jeou to deliver a speech about cross-straits relations at a media conference in Hong Kong last June.
Wu, who was Ma’s vice president from 2012 until last May, will visit Boston, Massachusetts, from September 23 to September 25 and present a speech at the annual meeting of the Taiwan Benevolent Association of America.
Top former government officials involved in the handling of classified materials need official approval before leaving the country within three years after their retirement, according to the Classified National Security Information Protection Act. The approval needs to come from the government department where they used to work, in Wu’s case the Presidential Office. [FULL STORY]
