By Chen Yun and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Chinese Television System （CTS, 華視） board of directors unanimously approved the resignation of general manager Leon Chuang （莊豐嘉） during an extraordinary session yesterday.
The Chinese Television System (CTS, 華視) board of directors unanimously approved the resignation of general manager Leon Chuang (莊豐嘉) during an extraordinary session yesterday.
In a statement issued after the meeting, CTS which is part of the public Taiwan Broadcasting System said that Chuang would remain in his post until the end of the month, when CTS News Department chief editor Chen Ya-lin (陳雅琳) would take over as acting manager until a permanent successor is found.
Chuang was engulfed in a controversy after the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus on Tuesday said that he had threatened to “rough up” the
‘NUCLEAR FOOD’: A KMT statement that it would not oppose food imports from five Japanese prefectures caught the party caucus by surprise, Alex Fai saidBy Lin Liang-sheng and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Food imports from Fukushima and four other Japanese prefectures that were banned following the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster would eventually be permitted, former legislative speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) said yesterday.
The question now is how to ensure their safety, he added.
Speaking to reporters at the opening ceremony of the fourth annual Congressional Youth Experience Camp organized by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), Wang, a KMT member, said that the issue would be resolved “sooner or later.”
If the agricultural imports that were banned after the disaster are resumed, Japan must first perform stringent inspections, followed by another round after
Legislators yesterday agreed to send a NT$2.391 trillion (US$86.04 billion) budget bill for next year to legislative committees for review, with members of an inter-caucus negotiation seeking to have it approved before the end of next month.
Legislative Speaker You Si-kun (游錫堃) presided over the negotiations, attended by all party caucus leaders, in which compromises allowed all sides to agree to send the bill for review by the eight legislative committees next week, in line with the procedure for a first reading.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus whip Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘) said he would raise a motion at a plenary session today