Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/03/29
By: Claudia Liu and S.C. Chang

Taipei, March 29 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou （馬英九） will “absolutely not shirk

CNA file photo

responsibility” if his former staff at Taipei City government were found to have been involved in irregularities in connection with a land development project in Xidian, New Taipei, his spokesman said Sunday.

Charles Chen （陳以信）said Ma, a former mayor of Taipei City, had delegated some decision making power to his deputies in regard to the on-going controversy over the BOT project in which the city government was suspected of having made too huge a concession to partner Radium Life Tech Co. （日勝生）in building a mass rapid transit trains maintenance center in suburban Taipei.     [FULL  STORY]