The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) decided yesterday to establish a task force designed to push for a new constitution, as called for by President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁).
"The task force is designed to formulate the contents of the new constitution, as well as the procedures needed to engineer a new constitution. It is also serves as a medium to collect cross-party opinions and the public's suggestions on the constitutional reform issue," DPP Deputy Secretary General Lee Ying-yuan (
The task force will comprise nine members. The members are: DPP Secretary-General Chang Chun-hsiung (張俊雄), retired National Taiwan University law professor Lee Hung-hsi (李鴻禧), Presidential Office Secretary-General Chiou I-jen (邱義仁), Examination Yuan Chairman Yao Chia-wen (姚嘉文), DPP Arbitration Committee chairman Chen Chi-sheng (陳繼勝), Presidential Adviser and former law professor at Yale University Chen Lung-chu (陳隆志), senior DPP official Chang Chun-hung (張俊宏) and ministers without portfolio Hsu Chih-hsiung (許志雄) and Yeh Jiunn-rong (葉俊榮).
Meanwhile, the party's Central Standing Committee yesterday invited Chairwoman of the Council for Cultural Affairs Tchen Yu-chiou (
Chen Shui-bian, also the party's chairman, said yesterday, "After the DPP came to power, it has been promoting cultural diversity to allow the various cultures native to Taiwan, including the Aboriginal, Hakka and Minnan cultures, to be revitalized."
Chen said diverse cultural values were not permitted during the 50 years of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) rule as the KMT promoted a Chinese national consciousness and forbade the development of Taiwan-oriented cultures.
Chen said the spirit of linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity will be incorporated into the party's plan for a new constitution.
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