Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) yesterday rebutted rumors that former KMT member Hsu Hsin-ying (徐欣瑩) was planning to run in November’s local elections, after accepting Hsu’s application to rejoin the KMT.
Hsu, who left the KMT seven years ago to found the Republican Party, yesterday led 100 young people who joined her in filing applications at KMT headquarters.
Chu accepted the applications and gave Hsu her party membership certificate.
Asked by a reporter if she was thinking about running in November’s elections, Hsu answered that she had not even thought about it.
Chu said that Hsu’s return to
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday said it is considering temporarily allowing at-home COVID-19 rapid test kits to be imported for self-use and has simplified paperwork for physicians to prescribe oral antivirals.
The center reported 50,828 new COVID-19 infections, including 48 imported cases.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that people can criticize the center, but they should only do so based on facts.
He made the remark while holding a picture showing a screenshot of a Facebook post Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) made on Monday, written over with the sentence
TEMPORARY: The CECC might allow people to import test kits, which would be exempted from customs declarations and reviews, Chen Shih-chung saidBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
Japan is concerned by the sorties of Chinese People’s Liberation Army planes near Taiwan, Japanese Diet member Norikazu Suzuki told a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Suzuki, a member of the delegation from the Youth Division of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party that arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday for a five-day visit, said the scale of China’s recent military sorties into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) was unprecedented.
“We are treating this matter as our own and have become alarmed,” said Suzuki, who is acting head of the youth division, although he did not specify exactly who “we” referred to.
As of
CALL FOR SOLIDARITY: The scale of the Chinese incursions into Taiwan’s ADIZ is unprecedented and has raised alarm in Japan, a visiting Japanese lawmaker said/ Staff writer, with CNA