Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Deputy Secretary-general Lee Ying-yuan (
Lee, who is expected to take over from DPP Secretary-General Chang Chun-hsiung (
"It is still not the time to discuss this matter. I haven't started any planning. The most important thing at this moment is to help the party win the legislative elections. As for other things in the future, I'll leave them to God, who will have the best arrangements for me," Lee said.
The elections for local city and county governments are set for December next year.
However, Presidential Office Secretary-General Su Tseng-chang (
"Lee has discussed this matter with me before and has shown his interest and willingness in the bid. He is quite a talent in the DPP and we are glad someone like him is willing to take on this task," Su said yesterday.
Lee, considered to be one of the DPP's most promising political starts, has sound and extensive administrative experience in politics. He has been the Cabinet's secretary-General and Taiwan's deputy representative to the US.
His political profile peaked when he successfully organized the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally earlier this year when nearly 2 million people formed a 500km-long human chain along the west coast to protest China's missiles pointed at Taiwan. The event was considered to be one of the most important catalysts boosting President Chen Shui-bian's (
Chang said yesterday that Lee was a very talented member of the party. However, Chang said that whether the party would support Lee to run for county commissioner depends on an internal selection mechanism which involves a vote by party members and an opinion poll to decide on a candidate, if more than two party members are interested in the post.
Council for Labor Affairs Chairwoman Chen Chu (陳菊) is also said to be interested in becoming Taipei County commissioner.
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