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The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) should allow the public to use rapid testing kits to head off a general outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, is responsible for the low screening rate in Taiwan, KMT Culture and Communications Committee director-general Alicia Wang (王育敏) said yesterday.
The lack of general screening has been proved to be the reason that the nation’s hospitals are on the brink of collapse, Wang told a news conference in Taipei, quoting Chen as saying last year that false-positives from general screening
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday held events across the nation to “celebrate Mother’s Day” and promote its US pork import and referendum voting initiatives.
The Central Election Commission on Friday said that the two referendum proposals the KMT initiated have received enough signatures for the petitions to pass, although a final decision on whether the proposals would be put to a vote on Aug. 28 is expected on Friday next week, after a commission review.
One proposal, initiated by KMT Legislator Lin Wei-chou (林為洲), asks: “Do you agree to a total ban on the importation of pork and related products containing
KMT a firm friend of Washington: Chu
By Shih Hsiao-kuang and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) yesterday said he told US academics that the KMT is a firm friend of their country and that Taiwan should shore up its defenses against China.
Chu made the remarks in response to media queries after taking part in a videoconference on Taiwan-US-China relations, climate change and US President Joe Biden’s foreign policy. Chu helped organize the forum with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Chu said he told the US academics that “the KMT firmly supports the US,” and that he hoped the US-China relationship would be that of “competition, not confrontation.”
TV personality Jaw decides not to run for KMT chairmanship
04/28/2021 10:50 PM
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Taipei, April 28 (CNA) Media personality Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) on Wednesday said he will not compete for the leadership of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), but he disclosed that the party s 2020 presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) is considering the chairmanship run.
Jaw, 70, had announced in February his intention to enter the election for KMT chairman, after he appealed to rejoin the party he had left in 1993.
Under the existing KMT regulations, however, he would have been ineligible to compete for the chairmanship because he had only rejoined the party for less than a year, but there had been calls in some quarters for the party to revise the rules to allow him to run.