CLOCK IS TICKING: The National Women’s League said it is willing to restart talks, one day after it replaced its chair and one day before its affiliation status is to be decided
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 26, 2017
By: Staff writer, with CNA
Minister of the Interior Yeh Jiunn-rong (葉俊榮) yesterday held an hour-long meeting with
Minister of the Interior Yeh Jiunn-rong speaks at a meeting of the legislature’s Internal Administration Committee in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times
the newly appointed chairwoman of the National Women’s League (NWL), Joanna Lei (雷倩).
The meeting came one day before a planned meeting of the Cabinet’s Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee to decide whether the league is affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).
Earlier yesterday, the league called the Ministry of the Interior to signal its willingness to restart negotiations over the administrative contract drawn by the ministry, an unnamed source said.
After the league’s call, Yeh took a leave of absence from the Legislative Yuan session and received Lei for a meeting at the ministry, the source said. [FULL STORY]
