Taiwan News
Date: 2015-11-30
By: Ko Lin, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

The government needs to improve its system for elderly care, including the investments on

new hardware and human resources management, Democratic Progressive Party vice presidential candidate Chen Chien-jen pointed out Monday.

Chen made the remarks while on a visit to the Zhi-Shan Senior Home in Taipei, where he was accompanied by DPP Legislator Pasuya Yao, legislator-at-large candidates Wang Jung-chang and Wu Yu-chin, and Taipei City Councilor Rosalia Wang.

“The question is not about the nation’s ageing population, but whether the government has enough resources to look after them,” Chen said, citing that the DPP has already carved up a 10-year plan dubbed the “long-term care services program 2.0.”     [FULL  STORY]

UNDER FIRE:Jennifer Wang and her husband have moved out of a dormitory they were criticized for living in, amid allegations that Wang is involved in speculative sales

Taipei Times
Date:: Dec 01, 2015
By: Stacy Hsu  /  Staff reporter

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice presidential candidate Jennifer Wang (王如玄)

yesterday moved out of a government dormitory in Taipei City’s Daan District (大安), in an attempt to put an end to controversy concerning her real-estate dealings.

Wang addressed reporters waiting outside the dorm on Hangzhou S Road Sec 2, where she and her husband have been living since 2005.

“I have delivered on my promise to move out of the faculty dormitory within 10 days. I have lived here for a long time and have forged close emotional bonds with the building’s security officers,” Wang said.

Asked whether she felt she was being coerced to leave the dormitory, Wang said she was someone who lived in the present and was willing to subject herself to the highest moral standards.

Wang’s relocation came just four days after she pledged to move out of the dorm amid controversy surrounding herself and her husband, Judicial Yuan Department of Government Ethics Director Huang Tung-hsun (黃東焄).

The couple has been criticized for living in a dorm listed as a Taiwan High Prosecutors’ Office unit that allegedly costs NT$2,000 per month to rent, while owning at least one military apartment.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-11-29
By: Ko Lin, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

The verdict on the Ting Hsin International court case is testament

that Taiwan’s legislative and judiciary systems lack the mechanism to resolve food safety disputes, Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen said Sunday.

If elected, Tsai pointed out that she would impose five new policies in the country, including an increase in the national budget on food inspections, and implement new hygiene laboratories and traceability systems to enhance food safety.     [FULL  STORY]

STAGGERED SCHEDULES:The deputy legislative speaker said the variance between their arrival times was to maximize their impact on events, not to avoid each other

Taipei Times
Date:  Nov 30, 2015
By: Stacy Hsu  /  Staff reporter

The staggered arrival times of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)

presidential candidate Eric Chu (朱立倫) and Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) at a campaign event yesterday revived speculation that the two have yet to patch things up after their fight over the KMT’s presidential candidacy last month.

After taking a backseat in the KMT’s campaigning following her presidential candidacy being rescinded by the party last month, Hung yesterday began her efforts to campaign for the pan-blue camp’s legislative candidates.

She attended two separate campaign events for New Party legislative candidate Pan Huai-tsung (潘懷宗) in Taipei’s Shilin District (士林) and KMT legislative candidate Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) in Taipei’s Zhongshan District (中山).     [FULL  STORY]