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LOOKING FORWARD: In her speech in Tainan, Tsai said that people can learn from those such as Tang Te-chang who have inspired Taiwanese in the wake of the IncidentBy Hung Rui-chin and Lee I-chia / Staff reporters
Taipei, Feb. 8 (CNA) Taiwan's Cabinet-level Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee on Tuesday passed a resolution to seize nearly NT$3.238 billion (US$116.23 million) from the main opposition Kuomintang for the "illegal sale" of property decades ago.
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Court denies KMT access to funds
NO PUBLIC BENEFIT: Despite the party’s claims, the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee said that
the scholarships have nothing to do with public welfare
By Wen Yu-te / Staff reporter
The Taipei High Administrative Court yesterday rejected the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) request to access NT$16.9 million (US$594,610) in frozen assets to pay the 2014 recipients of its Sun Yat-sen Scholarship.
The scholarship scheme was created by the KMT in 1960 to provide financial aid to KMT members who passed an internal assessment to study abroad in pursuit of a master’s degree.
Past recipients include former president and former KMT chairman Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), People First Party Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜), and KMT Chairman and Legislator Johnny Chiang (江啟臣).