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Chu should run for vice president: KMT member

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-09-02
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A new member of the Kuomintang’s Central Standing

Chu should run for vice president: KMT member. Central News Agency

Committee said Wednesday that party chairman Eric Liluan Chu should run for vice president to save the party.

The KMT’s official presidential candidate, Legislative Vice Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu, has been fighting an uphill battle in her bid for the January 16 election. Opposition Democratic Progressive Party leader Tsai Ing-wen has been leading in most opinion polls, while some surveys even put Hung in third place behind People First Party Chairman James Soong as well.

Lee Cho-ping, a member only elected to the CSC last Saturday, said he was planning to propose a motion calling on Chu to join Hung on the ticket as her running mate, reports said. [FULL STORY]

KMT presidential candidate suspends campaign activities (update)

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/02
By: Tseng Ying-yu and S.C. Chang

Taipei, Sept. 2 (CNA) Ruling Kuomintang (KMT) presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) made an announcement on her Facebook page late Wednesday that she is temporarily suspending her campaign activities to engage in “deep self-reflection and meditation.”

But her campaign office immediately followed with a terse statement that Hung will never quit the race, nor will she accept a change in her status to become a vice presidential candidate in the January 2016 presidential election. [FULL STORY]

Soong’s ‘door always open’ to cooperation with other parties

Want China Times
Date: 2015-09-02
By: CNA and Staff Reporter

James Soong, chair of Taiwan’s minor People First Party and 2016 presidential

James Soong greets supporters on a visit to a temple in Taoyuan, Sept. 1. (Photo/CNA)

candidate, said Tuesday that he does not rule out the possibility of cooperating with other parties.

Soong said better integration is needed not only within the pan-blue camp, where the PFP is aligned with the ruling Kuomintang, but also within all of Taiwan. He said political parties should understand that it is not in Taiwan’s interest to divide the country into two opposing camps. “My door is always open,” Soong said.

The veteran politician said the PFP should work with whatever party has good policies, whether it is the KMT or the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party, whose candidate Tsai Ing-wen is polling far ahead of Soong and the KMT’s candidate, Hung Hsiu-chu. Asked about the possibility of cooperating with Hung, Soong said he “has not ruled out any possibilities.” [FULL STORY]

HTC has co-opted unions: protesters

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 03, 2015
By Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter

Smartphone maker HTC Corp has co-opted the company’s unions, campaigners

Representatives from several labor groups yesterday protest outside HTC’s Taoyuan factory after the company announced some layoffs. c cPhoto: CNA

from the Taoyuan Confederation of Trade Unions said yesterday, accusing the unions of failing to protect workers’ rights in the face of company layoffs.

“The Taoyuan Department of Labor has no idea whether [the unions] are operating normally because they have not received any notification of board meetings, much less meeting agendas or minutes,” Taoyuan Confederation of Trade Unions chairman Chuang Fu-kai (莊福凱) said.

The Labor Union Act (工會法) requires unions to file meeting records and financial reports with their local labor department, he said. [FULL STORY]

China has distorted Taiwan’s history: US ex-official

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 02, 2015
By: William Lowther / Staff reporter in WASHINGTON

China has perverted Taiwan’s history, former US deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia Randall Schriver said.

Most US officials often and “mistakenly” repeat the Chinese mantra that Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory, Schriver said in a paper issued by the Project 2049 Institute in Washington.

“But how many American officials know that out of the last 400 years of Taiwan’s recorded history, Taiwan was governed by authorities on Mainland China for less than 10 years?” he said. [FULL STORY]

Avian flu strikes Taiwan chicken farm, 17,000 birds culled

Asia One
Sep 1, 2015

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Chickens at a Yunlin County poultry farm were found to be

Photo: Reuters

infected with the H5N2 avian influenza, according to the local Animal and Plant Disease Control Center, yesterday, making it the latest case in recent bird flu outbreaks.

Liao Pei-chih, head of Yunlin County’s Animal and Plant Disease Control Center, stated that approximately 17,000 chickens out of a total of 23,000 were destroyed at the affected farm located in Yuan Chang Township, after the birds tested positive for H5N2.

Initial speculation about the Yunlin outbreak points toward wild birds hiding in the chicken farm during recent downpours, and thus transmitting the virus to farm poultry, Liao stated. [FULL STORY]

DPP slams Lien over China parade

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-09-01
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Former Vice President Lien Chan is giving the international community a wrong impression by visiting China at this time, the opposition Democratic Progressive Party said Tuesday.

Lien’s decision to attend a September 3 parade in China commemorating the 1945 World War II victory over Japan has been widely condemned, with even President Ma Ying-jeou describing the trip as inappropriate. Taiwanese leaders are especially displeased at the Chinese Communist Party’s portrayal of itself as the leading force of the resistance against Japan during the 1937-1945 war.

As a former vice president of Taiwan, Lien’s actions not only go completely against the feelings of the Taiwanese people but also give an erroneous message to the international community, DPP spokesman Cheng Yun-peng said Tuesday. [FULL STORY]

Lien’s statement on CPC role in WWII not Taiwan’s mainstream view

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/01
By: Chou Yi-ling, Wang Cheng-chung and S.C. Chang

Taipei, Sept. 1 (CNA) A Taiwan academic said Tuesday that former Kuomintang (KMT)

Chang Wu-yueh (CNA file photo)

Chairman Lien Chan was not expressing Taiwan’s mainstream view when he suggested the Communist Party of China played a “leading role” behind the enemy lines during the 1937-1945 War of Resistance against Japan, which is part of World War II.

During a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who also serves as the general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in Beijing earlier in the day, Lien said that the Nationalist government under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) engaged directly with the Japanese troops in major battles, handing the latter a major setback and the CPC troops led by Mao Zedong (毛澤東) tied down the enemies behind their lines; the Chinese people paid a heavy price when they eventually defeated the Japanese aggressors to score the final victory. [FULL STORY]

Taiwan defense ministry assesses chance of PLA invasion

Want China Times
Date: 2015-09-01
By: CNA and Staff Reporter

Judging from China’s military investment and modernization in recent years, China would

An ROC Air Force Apache helicopter during a live-fire drill in southern Taiwan, Aug. 27. (Photo courtesy of the Ministry of National Defense)

probably invade Taiwan under certain circumstances, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said in a report submitted to the country’s Legislature on Monday.

In its 2015 report on China’s military power, the ministry assessed that China might invade Taiwan in some critical situations, which could include a declaration of formal independence or moves by the country toward de jure independence. Other scenarios also include massive civil unrest, Taiwan obtaining nuclear weapons, or foreign troops being deployed in Taiwan.

Delays by Taiwan over cross-strait talks on peaceful unification or foreign intervention in Taiwan’s internal affairs could also prompt China to invade, the ministry assessed. [FULL STORY]

Hung proposes ‘smart’ government

‘TAIWAN 4.0’:Hung envisions boosting public investment in information technology to improve food safety, long-distance caregiving, transportation and disease control

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 02, 2015
By: Alison Hsiao / Staff reporter

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) yesterday

Female supporters dressed as superwomen join Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu, third left, in a campaign activity in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times

unveiled her blueprint for transforming Taiwan into a “smart country” by increasing government investment in information and software technology and revolutionizing related infrastructure and regulations to apply smart governance to various aspects of the nation.

Hung’s campaign team called the policy proposal “Taiwan 4.0.”

“It is from Taiwan 1.0, or the post-war 1950s, during which the baby boomers were born and strived to survive, through Taiwan 2.0, the era of development from 1960 to the ’80s, to Taiwan 3.0, the period of democratization and globalization from 1990 to 2010,” the team said.

“While people can now easily get hold of information with the aid of technology, such as the ubiquitous smartphone, the government — from local to central — still operates in the 20th century,” Hung said. [FULL STORY]

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