One proposal to amend media reform legislation would not only seek the removal of legislators from operating or owning a TV station as the DPP would like, but would also prohibit elected politicians from producing or hosting both TV and radio shows.
DPP Legislator Julian Kuo (
"Politicians hosting or producing broadcast shows is just like athletes serving as referees in a single game. It should be prohibited," Kuo said in the press conference.
According to information from the Government Information Office (GIO), Independent lawmaker Sisy Chen (
Chen has declined to quit her posts at the two talk shows, saying that she would only consider leaving the media if DPP legislator Trong Chai (
Chai, meanwhile, has refused to make a decision as to whether he will step down as FTV's chairman since February, saying that breaking up the monopolization of the market has not yet been achieved.
Aside from Chen, Independent Aborigine lawmaker May Chin (
DPP legislative caucus leader Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁), said that the caucus has not yet discussed how it would handle the proposal, but has affirmed that "No other country in the world would allow prominent politicians to host TV and radio shows."
In response, KMT Legislator Hung Hsiu-chu (
PFP Legislator Diane Lee (李慶安) said her party hasn't reached agreement over the issue.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching