Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday appealed to all his supporters to help push Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan (連戰) into the Presi-dential Office.
Ma also rebutted a rumor that his supporters would vote for President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) in order for Ma to be nominated as the KMT's next presidential candidate.
Ma's remarks came in response to President Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) predictions about the KMT's succession issues.
Chen said at campaign rally on Sunday night that Lien will have to step down as KMT chairman and take responsibility for KMT's failure.
He said he believed that Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (
"It was quite inappropriate for Chen to talk about the other camp just a few days before election day," Ma said at a news conference called by the pan-blue camp to announce its "new blueprint for Taiwan."
"Whether Chen will be reelected is still a big variable," Ma said. "I think he should propose more political platforms at this moment."
Ma said if Chen was reelected, Taiwan situation with regards to cross-strait affairs and international relations would worsen. He urged his supporters to vote for Lien and People First Party Chairman James Soong (
"I would not be thinking about my own political future if the country has huge problems," Ma said.
"Should we choose the wrong one again, we will have to live another four years with remorse," he said.
The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage and bucolic atmosphere on this seemingly idyllic archipelago deep in the Pacific Ocean belie the key role it now plays in a titanic geopolitical struggle. Palau is again on the front line as China, and the US and its allies prepare their forces in an intensifying contest for control over the Asia-Pacific region. The democratic nation of just 17,000 people hosts US-controlled airstrips and soon-to-be-completed radar installations that the US military describes as “critical” to monitoring vast swathes of water and airspace. It is also a key piece of the second island chain, a string of
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck about 33km off the coast of Hualien City was the "main shock" in a series of quakes in the area, with aftershocks expected over the next three days, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. Prior to the magnitude 5.9 quake shaking most of Taiwan at 6:53pm yesterday, six other earthquakes stronger than a magnitude of 4, starting with a magnitude 5.5 quake at 6:09pm, occurred in the area. CWA Seismological Center Director Wu Chien-fu (吳健富) confirmed that the quakes were all part of the same series and that the magnitude 5.5 temblor was
Taiwan will now have four additional national holidays after the Legislative Yuan passed an amendment today, which also made Labor Day a national holiday for all sectors. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) used their majority in the Legislative Yuan to pass the amendment to the Act on Implementing Memorial Days and State Holidays (紀念日及節日實施辦法), which the parties jointly proposed, in its third and final reading today. The legislature passed the bill to amend the act, which is currently enforced administratively, raising it to the legal level. The new legislation recognizes Confucius’ birthday on Sept. 28, the
The Central Weather Administration has issued a heat alert for southeastern Taiwan, warning of temperatures as high as 36°C today, while alerting some coastal areas of strong winds later in the day. Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門) and Pingtung County’s Neipu Township (內埔) are under an orange heat alert, which warns of temperatures as high as 36°C for three consecutive days, the CWA said, citing southwest winds. The heat would also extend to Tainan’s Nansi (楠西) and Yujing (玉井) districts, as well as Pingtung’s Gaoshu (高樹), Yanpu (鹽埔) and Majia (瑪家) townships, it said, forecasting highs of up to 36°C in those areas
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