Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) dropped a bombshell announcement on Wednesday last week: The party is nominating former premier Simon Chang (張善政) as its candidate for Taoyuan mayor.
The nomination might have come as a surprise to the public, but it completely ambushed the KMT local factions in Taoyuan. Chang was not considered as, or even rumored to be, a potential candidate right up to the announcement.
The list of candidates expected for nomination were KMT legislators Lu Yu-ling (呂玉玲), Lu Ming-che (魯明哲) and Wan Mei-ling (萬美玲), and former KMT Taipei city councilor Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強).
Lo had expressed his
ALMOST THERE: Legislators said that the nation is ready to accept their plan, as the enrollment rate of five-year-olds was already 96.67% in the 2020-2021 academic yearBy Lu Yi-hsuan and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers yesterday proposed amending the Primary and Junior High School Act (國民教育法) to have compulsory education begin at age five.
The Legislative Yuan’s Education and Culture Committee discussed the proposal and asked the Ministry of Education to deal with the matter.
KMT Legislator Wan Mei-ling (萬美玲) and 26 others said in their proposal that the enrollment rate of five-year-old children was 96.67 percent during the 2020-2021 academic year, indicating the nation’s readiness to accept that children of that age should receive mandatory education.
KMT Legislator Cheng Cheng-chien (鄭正鈐) proposed expanding the system to include all children aged three and
Taipei, Feb. 25 (CNA) The Legislative Yuan has asked Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) to report to lawmakers on March 1 on the government's controls on food imports from nuclear disaster-hit parts of Japan and its response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The legislature yesterday asked Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) to report to lawmakers on the government’s controls on food imports from Japan and its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Legislators across party lines unanimously agreed to have Su report on the issues on Tuesday next week, when the new legislation session opens.
Su was originally set to give a general report yesterday, but it was pushed back so that he could address and face questions about Ukraine and the government’s measures to control food imports from five Japanese prefectures that had been banned after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster in