Rice-growing champion, ex-policy advisor Huang Kun-pin dies at 92
02/20/2021 10:27 PM
Farmer Huang Kun-pin (right) at a rice promotion event in 2016. CNA file photo
Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) Huang Kun-pin (黃崑濱), a rice farmer who gained prominence after he appeared in a 2004 TV documentary and was named by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) as a national policy advisor during her first term in office, died on Sunday at the age of 92.
Born in 1929, Huang first came to public attention after the Public Television Service showed the documentary film Let It Be (無米樂), in which he was one of the farmers in Tainan, whose daily life and views on the agricultural sector were featured.
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By Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNA
Chinese Television System (CTS) and Homeplus Digital Co have partnered to file an application for CTS News and Info channel to move to Channel 52, which has not been in use for the past two months.
The channel was originally licensed to CTi News, but has been vacant since the National Communications Commission on Nov. 18 last year announced that it would not renew the channel’s broadcast license, which expired on Dec. 13.
Red tape, Ma share blame for Heping
By Shie Deng-yuan 謝登元
Over the years, former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has earned the nickname “Mr Teflon” for his uncanny ability to shake off scandals and dodge political flak.
On Monday, Ma who was Taipei mayor during the SARS outbreak in 2003 through his office issued a statement claiming that a controversial lockdown of Taipei City Hospital’s Heping branch was “an order from the central government, implemented at a local level.”
However, a Public Television Service (PTS) documentary,
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Chen Wei-cang (陳維滄), the chairman of a foundation that I work for, sponsored PTS to make the documentary. Chen had no political axe to grind; he was motivated purely in terms of public service. This allowed the documentary to examine the events surrounding the lockdown objectively and from multiple angles and it in
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