Re-elected Taipei City Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (
The inauguration ceremony of the city government will be presided over by minister without portfolio Tsai Ching-yan (
Due to the often heated and competitive nature of the election, prosecutors from Taipei District Prosecutors' Office are to be present at the election to oversee voting.
Several competitors within the KMT, which hold the majority of seats in the council, will be participating in the poll.
KMT speaker Wu Bi-chu (
The DPP is unlikely to win the deputy speakership, as the councilors from the pan-blue camp have a strong grip on the city council. It is rumored that the KMT's Chiang Nai-hsin (
Among the city government officials to be sworn in today, some are newly appointed while some are returning following Mayor Ma's slight reshuffle to his city administration.
Deputy mayors Ou Chin-der (歐晉德) and Pai Hsiu-hsiung (白秀雄) are both retained, however, Labor Bureau chief Cheng Tsun-chi (鄭村棋) and Cultural Affairs director Lung Ying-tai (龍應台), both of whom resigned, will remain in their posts until replacements are found.
Wu Ching-ji (
Hsiung Kuang-hua (
The outgoing director of the Taipei Water Department Tsay Huel-sheng (
The director of Feitsui Reservoir Kuo Ray-hua (
Former Czech Republic-based Taiwanese researcher Cheng Yu-chin (鄭宇欽) has been sentenced to seven years in prison on espionage-related charges, China’s Ministry of State Security announced yesterday. China said Cheng was a spy for Taiwan who “masqueraded as a professor” and that he was previously an assistant to former Cabinet secretary-general Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰). President-elect William Lai (賴清德) on Wednesday last week announced Cho would be his premier when Lai is inaugurated next month. Today is China’s “National Security Education Day.” The Chinese ministry yesterday released a video online showing arrests over the past 10 years of people alleged to be
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