Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/28
By: Cheng Chi-fong, Sunrise Huang and Elizabeth Hsu

Kaohsiung, June 28 (CNA) Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) has publicly apologized for the

appearance of a city official at an event to promote a new ferry line between the city and China that turned out to be a farce.

Kaohsiung Tourism Director Pan Heng-hsu (潘恆旭) was the person censured for his participation in the June 25 inauguration ceremony of a three-mini-links route between Kaohsiung's Qijin Harbor and Dongtou Harbor in Wenzhou in China's Zhejiang Province.

The maritime route was later denounced by the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan's top China policy-making body, as a "fraud" because the two destinations are not part of the "three mini-links" between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Also, the ferry company supposedly operating the route had disbanded in mid-June.
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