Taipei, Aug. 24 (CNA) Chung Hua University announced Wednesday it has determined former Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) committed a "serious case" of plagiarism while writing his master's thesis, and that as a result it has revoked his degree and diploma effective immediately.
Accusations and allegations of politicians plagiarizing master’s theses are cropping up like mushrooms after a spring shower; in the weeks running up to November’s local elections there are likely to be many more.
Allegations first started flying more than a month ago, when Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) accused then-Hsinchu mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) and Ho Li-hsing (賀力行), Lin’s former thesis adviser at Chung Hua University, of contravening the Copyright Act (著作權法) relating to a thesis Lin submitted in 2008.
This whipped up a political hurricane leading to further allegations of plagiarism, creating a
Taipei, Aug. 12 (CNA) The ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) candidate for Taoyuan mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) withdrew his candidacy on Friday after having been found to have plagiarized another person's work in his master's degree thesis.