Chang Fu-mei (
"Both the premier and the president thought it would be a good idea for her to stay on in her post until the Control Yuan is reshuffled," Lin said.
President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) is scheduled to nominate the Control Yuan's president, vice president and members in September. The legislature will then vote on confirming his nominations.
The Harvard-educated Chang, 66, was appointed to her current position in 2000. She was a member of the National Assembly between 1992 and 1999 and was a member of the Control Yuan between 1999 and 2000.
Other high-ranking Cabinet officials who will stay on in their posts after the Cabinet is reshuffled include Council of Indigenous Peoples Chairman Chen Chien-nien (
Chen Chien-nien, a member of the Puyuma Aboriginal tribe, was appointed to his position in 2002. He served in the Taitung County Council between 1982 and 1986 and was a member of the Taiwan Provincial Assembly from 1986 to 1993 and served as the Taitung County commissioner from 1993 to 2001.
Chen Chien-jen has been a member of the Academia Sinica since 1998. He was a research fellow at the Institute of Bio-med Science at the Academia Sinica between 1988 and 1996.
It is also believed that Minister of Justice Chen Ding-nan (陳定南), Chairwoman of Council of Labor Affairs Chen Chu (陳菊), Minister of Finance Lin Chuan (林全), Director-General of the Central Personnel Administration Lee Yi-yang (李逸洋) and Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Ling-san (林陵三) will remain in their posts.
Also yesterday, Premier Yu Shyi-kun yesterday declined to accept the resignation of Central Election Commission Chairman Huang Shih-cheng (
Former president Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) mention of Taiwan’s official name during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) on Wednesday was likely a deliberate political play, academics said. “As I see it, it was intentional,” National Chengchi University Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies professor Wang Hsin-hsien (王信賢) said of Ma’s initial use of the “Republic of China” (ROC) to refer to the wider concept of “the Chinese nation.” Ma quickly corrected himself, and his office later described his use of the two similar-sounding yet politically distinct terms as “purely a gaffe.” Given Ma was reading from a script, the supposed slipup
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The bodies of two individuals were recovered and three additional bodies were discovered on the Shakadang Trail (砂卡礑) in Taroko National Park, eight days after the devastating earthquake in Hualien County, search-and-rescue personnel said. The rescuers reported that they retrieved the bodies of a man and a girl, suspected to be the father and daughter from the Yu (游) family, 500m from the entrance of the trail on Wednesday. The rescue team added that despite the discovery of the two bodies on Friday last week, they had been unable to retrieve them until Wednesday due to the heavy equipment needed to lift