Taipei mayor apologizes over 'scrap metal' gaffe

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) admitted Tuesday that he made a faux pas for saying he intended to scrap a gift presented by visiting U.K. Minister of State for Transport Baroness Kramer a day earlier.

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