DISRESPECT: One lawmaker said that the building is less a house of worship than a conduit for the Chinese Communist Party and that its use of the PRC flag is intolerable
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 07, 2019
By: Yang Chin-cheng and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Tainan City Government yesterday declared the “Taiwan People’s Communist Party Matsu
The national flag of the People’s Republic of China flies outside the “Taiwan People’s Communist Party Matsu Temple” in Tainan’s Sinying District yesterday.
Photo: Yang Chin-cheng, Taipei Times
After an inspection by city officials earlier in the day, Tainan Public Works Bureau official Lin Shang-ching (林尚卿) said that the building is on a 550 ping (1,818m2) plot of farmland, which by definition should be used only for agricultural purposes.
Activities on the plot, including paving concrete over farmland, and digging an artificial pond without the proper permits are contraventions of the Regional Planning Act (區域計畫法), he said, adding that the construction company had not obtained a proper permit for the work.
The building, which was converted into a shrine by Lin Te-wang (林德旺) — head of the Taiwan People’s Communist Party (台灣人民共產黨) — flies the five-star red flag of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). [FULL STORY]