Taipei, March 15 (CNA) National Communications Commission (NCC) Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang (陳耀祥) on Wednesday denied any wrongdoing in the commission's approval of the establishment of a new TV news channel in January 2022.
Taipei, Oct. 20 (CNA) Shin Kong Life Insurance Co. Vice President Cynthia Wu (吳欣盈) is to assume former Taiwan People's Party's Legislator Tsai Pi-ru's (蔡壁如) at-large seat in the Legislative Yuan, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said Thursday.
WRONG MESSAGE? A regulatory change putting Washington’s Taiwan oversight into its ‘China’ office waters down focus on Taipei and is inappropriate, critics saidBy Wang Chien-hao, Lee Hsin-fang and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Taipei, Aug. 27 (CNA) The Ministry of Digital Affairs, which has been given a broad mandate for overseeing the development of digital infrastructure and cybersecurity in Taiwan, was inaugurated at a ceremony in Taipei Saturday by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文).
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