Politics

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-12-15
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen

Tsai opposes Chinese takeover of SPIL. Central News Agency

said Tuesday that due to widespread public doubt, there was no room to open up Taiwan’s semiconductor sector to investment from China.

Her comments followed the high-profile campaign by China’s Tsinghua Unigroup to buy stakes in Siliconware Precision Industries Co. (SPIL), the world’s largest chip packager and tester, and in chip designer MediaTek.

As the takeover battle heated up Monday with Taiwan’s Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. announcing it wanted to take 100 percent in SPIL, hundreds of academics and professionals have signed a petition calling on the government to drop plans to open up the country’s chip sector to Chinese investment. [FULL STORY]

Chu to expand preschool subsidy system if elected

IT’S THE ECONOMY:The KMT’s presidential candidate said most young couples put off parenthood for financial reasons, as they are worried over expensive preschooling

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 16, 2015
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Eric Chu (朱立倫) yesterday proposed expanding kindergarten subsidies to cover children aged between three and five years old, as part of his efforts to assuage the nation’s dwindling birth rate.

“Taiwan’s declining birth rate is primarily attributed to the rising financial burden on young couples, which is why we must address the problem by increasing educational subsidies,” Chu told a forum held at the KMT headquarters yesterday morning to unveil his educational platform.

In a country that has a 3:7 ratio of public to private kindergartens, most young couples put off parenthood for economic reasons, Chu said.

Chu said that if elected, he would increase the education budget from 22.5 percent of the nation’s average net annual revenue to 23.5 percent, to fund his policy of lowering the minimum age limit for the government’s preschool subsidies from five to three. [FULL STORY]

Chen reaffirmed long-term elder care policy

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-12-14
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Democratic Progressive Party vice presidential candidate Chen Chien-jen on

Chen reaffirmed long-term elder care policy. Central News Agency (2015-12-14 21:18:16)

Monday reaffirmed the DPP presidential ticket’s long-term elder care proposal.

Long-term elder care in remote areas should not be overlooked, Chen said during a visit to an elder care center in Taitung County in eastern Taiwan. DPP presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen’s 10-year long-term care version 2.0 is designed to complement insufficient long-term care resources in remote areas, Chen added.

Long-term elder care requires not only love but also elder care centers in both cities and remote areas, Chen said, adding that funds and resources would be evenly distributed. [FULL STORY]

DPP sues KMT trio over Tsai claims

SEEKING JUSTICE:The DPP spokesman said the allegations made by the three are ‘patently false,’ since their details about Tsai’s real-estate dealings are all incorrect

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 15, 2015
By: Loa Iok-sin / Staff reporter

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday filed a lawsuit against

Democratic Progressive Party spokesman Huang Di-ying yesterday holds a news conference outside the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office before filing a lawsuit against three prominent Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) members. Photo: Lo Pei-der, Taipei Times

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers Alex Tsai (蔡正元) and Alicia Wang (王育敏) and former legislator Chiu Yi (邱毅) over their allegations that DPP presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) had speculated in real estate.

“In the past few days, Alex Tsai, Wang and Chiu have been making false accusations against Tsai Ing-wen with the intention of defaming her,” DPP spokesman Huang Di-ying (黃帝穎) told an afternoon news conference held outside the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office. “We are filing a lawsuit claiming that they have violated Article 90 of the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Act (總統副總統選舉罷免法).”

Under the article, anyone convicted of “spreading a rumor or false saying by text, picture, audio tape, video tape, speech or other method for the purpose of making a candidate elected or not elected” can face up to five years in prison. [FULL STORY]

Taiwan President’s Chosen Successor Opposes China Chip Opening

Bloomberg News
Date: December 12, 2015
By: Miaojung Lin

Taiwanese presidential hopeful Eric Chu said he opposed mainland Chinese

Taiwan’s ruling party Kuomintang presidential candidate Eric Chu.
Photographer: Billy H.C. Kwok/Bloomberg

investment in the island’s microchip designers, breaking with his ally, outgoing President Ma Ying-jeou, as he attempts to close a wide gap in the polls.

Chu, the chairman of Taiwan’s ruling party, the Kuomintang, described the $19 billion industry as too important to open to greater influence from the island’s former civil war rival. He was answering questions from Bloomberg about a proposal by Ma’s government to lift a ban on mainland Chinese investment in integrated-circuit-design companies such as the Hsinchu-based MediaTek Inc. as the global smartphone boom slows.

“We can cooperate together, but that one’s still very sensitive to our economy,” Chu said in an interview Friday at the KMT headquarters in Taipei. If elected president, Chu said he “would not allow that one, because it’s not yet the time.” [FULL STORY]

Parents urge candidates to back reform calls

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 14, 2015
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter

A group of parents yesterday demonstrated outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, calling on presidential and legislative candidates to take a stance on the call to abolish the much-maligned high-school admission system and restoring the Basic Competence Test. [FULL STORY]

Tsai: reforms will begin once elected

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-12-13
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen told a fan

Tsai: reforms will begin once elected. Central News Agency (2015-12-13 18:02:19)

club meeting Sunday that reforms will begin once she gets elected.

Tsai said that with some 30 days away from the voting day, the DPP wishes to use the best policies and best teams to let all people in Taiwan know that she is the best choice.

After the DPP’s defeat in 2008, the party has got back on its feet, ruling 13 counties and municipalities with good results, Tsai said.

Tsai then touched on her plans on political, social and industrial reforms in Taiwan. She said that she has 5 plans for political reforms to make Taiwan’s politics freer from corruption, more efficient and better able to unite people in Taiwan. [FULL STORY]

Chu to let ‘matters run their course’ on Ko invitation

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 14, 2015
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Eric Chu (朱立倫)

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice presidential candidate Jennifer Wang, left, and presidential candidate Eric Chu, center, yesterday wear chefs’ uniforms at the founding of a campaign support group for the catering trade. Photo: CNA

yesterday said that he would let matters run their course with regard to the possibility of inviting Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) to boost his campaign.

Chu made the remarks during a morning visit to a tourism factory in Yunlin County in response to reporters’ questions about rumors that one of Chu’s aides had telephoned Ko in the morning to sound him out on the topic.

“I think I will let everything run its course,” Chu said.

“I do not know which one of my aides spoke to Ko, but we are all friends and I will still extend my gratitude to him regardless of whether he comes to help me out or not,” he added. [FULL STORY]

Ko embarks on a bike tour to campaign

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-12-13
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je embarked on a bike tour to central Taiwan Sunday

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morning to promote Velo-city Global 2016 in Taipei and campaign for a selection of candidates across party lines running in the upcoming general election.

Ko started the tour from the Guandu Temple in Taipei at 7 AM and planned to pass Bali in New Taipei City, Taoyuan City, Hsinchu County, Miaoli County, Taichung City, Changhua County, en route to Yunlin County at 10 PM. The total trip was said to take about 15 hours.

Along the way, Ko would campaign for 10 candidates. For example, he campaigned for Democratic Progressive Party legislative candidate Wu Su-yao at the Guandu Temple and met with DPP legislative candidate Lu Sun-ling in Bali, New Taipei City. [FULL STORY]

Tsai calls on KMT to stop land allegations

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-12-12
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate

Tsai calls on KMT to stop land allegations. Central News Agency (2015-12-12 00:06:02)

Tsai Ing-wen called on the Kuomintang Saturday to stop its allegations about real estate speculation and return to real issues.

After KMT vice-presidential candidate Jennifer Wang admitted she had bought and sold nine military apartments for profit, ruling party lawmakers struck back by accusing Tsai of having made millions in land speculation too.

The opposition leader, who has built up a large lead in opinion polls for the January 16 presidential election, said recent KMT allegations were completely unfounded, as proven by official registration documents. [FULL STORY]

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