KMT urges more, better support for healthcare workers
RECOGNIZING VALUE: The government should show they appreciate healthcare workers, and help them with finding and paying for quarantine, the KMT said
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday urged the government to give greater support to healthcare workers on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.
One of the measures it proposed at a news conference in Taipei was giving healthcare workers priority access to quarantine hotels.
Healthcare workers, who are worried about infecting their families, have had difficulty finding accommodation at quarantine hotels, it said.
KMT urges age tolerance as councilor apologizes
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) yesterday apologized for calling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Rosalia Wu (吳思瑤) “ractopamine pork auntie,” while KMT Culture and Communications Committee director-general Alicia Wang (王育敏) urged the public not to judge politicians based on age or appearance.
“There is no need for people to judge politicians based on age or physical appearance, or to use discriminatory words,” Wang told the launch ceremony of a KMT shop on the e-commerce platform PChome.
“The DPP claims to be a progressive party. Its young members should not use discriminatory language,” Wang said.
Chiang lauds DPP’s Fan for issuing apology
‘INAPPROPRIATE’: Fan Kang-hao on Facebook asked why the KMT Youth Department had chosen ‘the already 50-year-old Alicia Wang’ to model new jackets
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) yesterday commended Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) member Fan Kang-hao (范綱皓) for apologizing over his comments on social media regarding the age of KMT Culture and Communications Committee director Alicia Wang (王育敏).
In a Facebook post on Monday that has since been deleted, Fan, who is the director of the DPP’s online community center, asked why the KMT Youth Department had chosen “the already 50-year-old Alicia Wang” to model its new jackets.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday said that the lifting of a ban on the importation of US pork containing traces of ractopamine has led to higher prices for domestic pork.
Citing data from the Council of Agriculture, KMT Culture and Communications Committee chairwoman Alicia Wang (王育敏) told a news conference in Taipei that the average price for pork was NT$77.35 per kilogram on Tuesday, up 21.23 percent from a year earlier, when the average price was NT$63.8 per kilogram.
COA Minister Chen Chi-chung’s (陳吉仲) explanation that the increase was due to the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday was a lie, she
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