Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall could easily be mistaken by the unfamiliar tourist for a religious shrine of preeminent sanctity. Massive and tastefully ornate, it sits within a sprawling square of ...

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A military honor guard parade at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will withdraw the military honour guards at the memorial hall for ...

Taiwan went through 38 years of martial law, during which the longest-serving president was Chiang Kai-shek. Over the years, the Taiwan civic society has subjected the memorial park built in memory of ...

The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial, in Taiwan’s capital of Taipei, honors a former Chinese president whose defeated forces retreated to the island in 1949. The generalissimo ruled the Republic of ...

The government should provide a firm timeline to transition Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei away from a location that “worships a statue of a dictator,” the Taiwan Youth Association for ...

Within the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall sits a statue of the Taiwanese leader, overlooking a public square in one of Taipei’s busiest neighborhoods. Together with Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek is ...

On a lush hillside in northern Taiwan, the late dictator Chiang Kai-shek smiles benevolently—over and over. Here he is astride a horse or brandishing a book; there he stands, extending a fatherly arm ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will withdraw the military honour guards at the memorial hall for former leader Chiang Kai-shek as part of ongoing efforts to end the "veneration of authoritarianism", the ...