Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/01
By Liao Jen-kai and Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, Aug. 1 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) is in good health, the hospital conducting his annual health checkup said Saturday.

Except for Ma’s old injuries to his right knee, he is otherwise healthy, according to the China Medical University Hospital in Taichung City.

Ma is 178 centimeters tall and weighs 75.1 kilograms, with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 23.7.

It is the first time that the president has picked a hospital far away from Taipei for his annual checkup. The previous hospitals were located in the capital or Taoyuan City, both of which are in northern Taiwan.     [FULL  STORY]