Agence France-PresseApril 30, 2013 09:45
Taiwan's former president Lee Teng-hui on Tuesday decided to scrap plans to visit Japan for health reasons, his office said, after his previous trips irked Beijing.
Lee had planned to fly to Japan on May 8 and deliver two speeches during a four-day stay but doctors advised the 90-year-old, who has twice been hospitalised this year, against the trip.
"Doctors said it is not proper for Lee to take a long-distance trip at the moment," office spokesman Wang Yen-chun told AFP, adding that the planned trip was to be postponed indefinitely.
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