由 fmdr4428 » 2008-04-26 07:49
路透社:打瞌睡的台灣部長告別政壇
更新日期:2008/04/24 19:00
教育部長杜正勝頗受國際媒體矚目。路透社今天以(打瞌睡的台灣部長告別政
壇)為標題,報導杜正勝四年任內的種種另類表現。
路透社報導:杜正勝擔任教育部長期間在國會打瞌睡,挖鼻孔,和立委對罵,抓
記者麥克風,還推一名攝影記者撞牆。報導說,杜正勝是最少到國會的閣員,但
是他的話題也最多。
路透社指出,台灣下個月要更換內閣,杜正勝必須下台一鞠躬,但是台灣內閣也
將失去一位多采多姿的閣員。
MP Tu to shout his last goodbye next month(裏面有不少gre單字,值得一讀)
Reuters
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Cabinet will soon lose one of its more colorful
members, who was notorious for sleeping in parliament, shouting
at legislators, picking his nose in public and shoving a journalist.
Tu Cheng-sheng, education minister since 2004, will step down
next month along with current President Chen Shui-bian.
"According to Eastern tradition and Taiwan culture, you could say
that these actions were hard to accept," said Liu Chin-hsu,
secretary general of the National Teachers' Association.
The cabinet of President-elect Ma Ying-jeou is shaping up as a
group of technocrats rather than political firebrands.
Tu, 63, a former National Palace Museum director, magazine editor
and visiting Harvard University scholar, was filmed sleeping at an
October 2007 parliament meeting.
He was filmed deliberately picking his nose in public as a reaction
to criticism for dozing off.
Tu also racked up the highest absentee rate of any Cabinet
member since 2004, the parliament speaker's secretary said.
"He screamed at the legislators a lot," recalled former legislator Joanna Lei.
In August 2007, Tu, often photographed with a glare or a snarl,
grabed a reporter’s microphone and pushed a cameraman into a
wall, local media reported.