Taipei, May 3 (CNA) Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) will visit the United States in June to meet with U.S. officials and experts and discuss Taiwan-U.S. ties, cross-Taiwan Strait relations and Taiwan's defense capabilities, a KMT official said Tuesday.
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<strong>KMT names envoy to US</strong>
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) on Wednesday named Alexander Huang (黃介正) as the party’s envoy to the US. Huang, the KMT’s director of international affairs, is to head the party’s representative office in Washington, while Eric Huang (黃裕鈞) would be deputy representative, Chu told a meeting of the KMT’s Standing Committee. Alexander Huang was a director of the Institute of Strategic Studies and the Institute of American Studies at Tamkang University and deputy minister of the Mainland Affairs Council in 2003 and 2004. Although he would be the top envoy to the US,
A think tank affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday proposed amendments intended to improve the Act of Gender Equality in Employment (性別工作平等法).
The proposals came a few days before Women and Children’s Day, which is marked on April 4 in Taiwan.
The think tank suggested changes that would allow employees to take family care leave or long-term care arrangement to assist senior family members.
It also proposed drafting a household services act to create a job-safety fund to subsidize employers of vulnerable families and define the rights and responsibilities of household workers, whether foreign or local.
It also advocated for extending maternity
A Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) initiative to reinstate former members and attract new ones has shown positive results, drawing nearly 50,000 people to the party within four months, the KMT said on Saturday.
The KMT has in the past few years been experiencing a membership exodus in what some have characterized as “jumping ship.”
In an attempt to reverse the trend, the party on Nov. 1 last year launched the “Same Boat” project, aiming to “return 10,000 people to the family.”
Under the initiative, those whose membership had lapsed after not paying party dues could pay NT$300 to reinstate their membership, while those
Taipei, March 5 (CNA) The opposition Kuomintang on Saturday elected 29 members to its Central Standing Committee, with Legislator Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁) gaining the most votes.