Taipei City Councilor Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday said he would resign from the council next week to seek his party’s nomination to run for mayor of Taoyuan, demonstrating his confidence in being selected by his party.
Lo, who has chosen to resign on Monday, said that the move was historic, as no elected official in Taiwan has resigned a position before winning a party’s nomination to run for another elected post.
Cheng Wen-tsan of the Democratic Progressive Party has been mayor of Taoyuan since 2014, when Taoyuan city and county were merged into a special municipality.
Taipei, April 6 (CNA) Kuomintang (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) declared Wednesday he would press ahead with a bid for his party's nomination for November's Taoyuan mayoral election.
Court rejects Frank Hsieh’s claim for compensation
Staff writer, with CNA
The Taipei District Court yesterday rejected a request by Representative to Japan Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) for compensation of NT$1 million (US$35,836) from Taipei City Councilor Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強).
Lo, of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), had accused Hsieh of dodging his responsibility for handling Taiwanese tourists who were stranded in Japan in September 2018 by Typhoon Jebi.
Su Chii-cherng (蘇啟誠), who was director-general of the Osaka branch of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, committed suicide a week after his office was accused of indifference to the plight of Taiwanese stranded at Japan’s Kansai International Airport in the wake of the typhoon.
Legal recourse over criticism of envoy to Japan rejected
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Taiwan s representative to Japan Frank Hsieh is pictured at a recent tourism promotion event held in Tokyo. CNA file photo
Taipei, April 27 (CNA) The Taipei District Court on Tuesday rejected a request by Taiwan s top envoy to Japan Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) for compensation of NT$1 million (US$35,832) from Taipei City Councilor Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強).
The demand for monetary compensation resulted from criticism of Hsieh s alleged dodging of responsibility for Taiwan s handling of stranded Taiwanese tourists in Japan in 2018 due to a typhoon that caused a Taiwanese diplomat stationed in Osaka to commit suicide.
On International Women’s Day yesterday, a group of legislators and civil groups called for the swift passage of a suite of legislation to address stalking, workplace harassment and revenge pornography, which are languishing in committee.
Although Taiwan is a world leader in gender equality, many women still encounter sexual harassment and gender-based violence, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Fan Yun (范雲) told a news conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei.
After identifying what they see as the main threats to women in Taiwan, Fan said that she and her colleagues drafted three bills as “arrows” to take down the “three great