Local media: Ex-Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui dies at age 97

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Local media are reporting that ex-Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, who oversaw the island’s transition to full democracy, died Thursday evening. Lee was 97 and had largely dropped out of public life in his later years. As a member of the then-governing Nationalist Party, Lee was made Taiwan’s leader following the death […]