■ Politics
Candidate detained
A Kaohsiung City councilor candidate was detained by prosecutors yesterday for allegedly buying votes, which made him the second detainee as a city councilor candidate for this year's mayoral and city councilor election in Taipei and Kaohsiung. Kaohsiung prosecutor Hsiao Yu-cheng (蕭宇誠) summoned KMT Kaohsiung City Councilor Chang Ray-te (張瑞德), who is currently running for his re-election, and his younger brother Chang Chieh-min (張詰旻) on Friday night for their alleged vote-buying behaviors and decided to detain them around 1am yesterday. The detention was immediately approved by the Kaohsiung District Court. According to Hsiao, Chang and his younger brother bought votes from Chang's vote captains and voters in Kaohsiung's Lingya, Hsinhsing and Chienjin districts by giving away free admission tickets to a dinner party on Nov. 10. Chang and his younger brother have not yet been indicted.
■ English speaking
Contest winners rewarded
Students from all over Taiwan made their way to the Taipei Times offices in Taipei yesterday to pick up awards for compositions run in the paper's bilingual section throughout September and October. Winners included elementary school students Ken Yang (楊岡昀), of the National Experimental High School in Hsinchu, and Jonathan Hu (胡桓瑋), representing Lin Sen Elementary School in Taipei, and graduate student Bruce Yang (楊博志), a masters degree candidate in applied English at Southern Taiwan University of Technology in Changhua. Taipei Times president Lee Chang-kuei (李長貴) told the assembled winners that the ability to express oneself in English is an essential skill for a bright future in Taiwan.
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