Taipei, Jan. 8 (CNA) Taiwan held its first election in 2023 on Sunday to fill a legislative seat in Taipei left vacant after the Kuomintang's (KMT) Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) resigned to focus on his campaign for Taipei mayor, which he won in the local government elections on Nov. 26.
Taipei, Jan. 8 (CNA) Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) declared victory in the legislative by-election in Taipei on Sunday, beating main rival Enoch Wu (吳怡農) of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
Taipei, Aug. 30 (CNA) Former Premier Simon Chang (張善政) Tuesday denied allegations that he plagiarized a research paper as part of a project he applied to undertake from the Council of Agriculture (COA) while serving as vice president of the technology company Acer Inc.
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With political parties lining up their candidates to contest November’s nine-in-one local elections, the first significant mudslinging of the election season has already occurred, once again involving academic plagiarism.
The first clod was flung on Tuesday last week. Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) told a news conference that Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) who on Friday retired as mayor of Hsinchu, as he is the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) nominee for Taoyuan mayor plagiarized his 2008 master’s thesis.
The DPP returned fire. Lin denied the allegation and threatened legal action against Wang, while Lin’s academic