Event marked Tsai’s first public appearance since return from Pacific tour

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/03/29
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

President Tsai Ing-wen pays her respects at Taipei’s Martyrs’ Shrine. (By Central News Agency)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) visited the Martyrs’ Shrine in Taipei City Friday to pay her respects to past martyrs and heroes.

She read a message mentioning the “building of a new home in a new era,” the Central News Agency reported.

The president was accompanied at the event by all the prominent government leaders, including Vice President Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁), who announced later in the day he would not run for re-election next year, and the heads of the five branches of government, including Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌).    [FULL  STORY]