Taiwan News
Date: 2015-12-02
By: Ko Lin, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen denied allegations that

her party funneled a move urging people in Taiwan to boycott Ting Hsin-made products, reports said Wednesday.

Kuomintang Legislator Alex Tsai slammed the DPP candidate in the morning for deliberately placing blames on her Facebook page, which quoted that pan-Green supporters should instead point their fingers at the ruling judges and the KMT rather than Ting Hsin.

“Tsai is only trying to excuse Ting Hsin for their sins,” he lamented, suggesting that if she intends to scold, then “scold everyone else, including Ting Hsin.”

The KMT legislator also accused Tsai for making false pretenses, and that although she did not mention Ting Hsin in her rhetoric, she has called on the public to boycott their products.

“Tsai has a hidden agenda with Ting Hsin,” he claimed.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-12-01
By: George Liao, , Staff Writer

The ruling KMT’s proposed long-term senior care system would make long-term

senior care more expensive and add an extra burden to laborers, Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday in response to her opponent’s criticism Monday. She said DPP would use the government’s power to build a comprehensive system as a public service.
KMT presidential candidate Eric Chu proposed the ruling party’s long-term senior care policy Monday while criticized DPP’s edition for being too small in terms of financial scale.

Chu’s long-term senior care plan would require upwards of NT$110 billion, NT$40 billion of which would come from the government and the rest would be footed by employers and salary earners on top of their health insurance, and that would constitute a heavy financial burden to them, Tsai said, adding that Chu has no plans for the government-funded NT$40 billion either. Tsai made the rebuttal at a facial and hair beauty competition on her campaign trail Tuesday.     [FULL  STORY]

TRANSPARENCY PUSHED:The DPP’s campaign office said the KMT should publish its funding data, so that voters can see if its campaign has tapped party assets

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 02, 2015
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文)

campaign office yesterday released data on donations it has received and its campaign expenditures, urging Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Eric Chu (朱立倫) to follow suit.

The data — released by the office at a news conference in Taipei yesterday morning — showed that Tsai received NT$405,345,961 (US$12,346,063 at current exchange rates) in donations between May 26 and Nov. 22.

During the same period, the office spent NT$195,055,578 million on its campaign, on items including transport, personnel, the rents of its offices, and others.
Based on data released by the office in September, donations to Tsai’s campaign in the past three months have increased by NT$329,681,840, from the NT$75,664,121 received between May 26 and Aug. 31.     [FULL  STORY]

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]