A group of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidates for the May 14 National Assembly election biked along the Love River in Kaohsiung yesterday to elicit voter support.
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Chao was alluding to talks between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
Describing Friday's talks between KMT Chairman Lien Chan (連戰) and Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) as anti-Taiwan, Chao said his party would choose to stay with the Taiwanese people, and he urged voters to support the DPP and vote for its candidates in the National Assembly election.
Despite widespread voter apathy toward the elections, Chao said the results would affect the country's constitutional reforms, which will play a key role in national development. He called on DPP candidates to work hard to win the election in order to give a green light to four major constitutional amendment proposals adopted by the Legislative Yuan last August.
Items in the package include reducing the number of legislative seats from the present 225 to 113 and adopting a "single seat, two votes" legislative electoral system starting with the legislature to be elected in 2007, as well as phasing out the National Assembly and replacing it with referendums to decide on constitutional amendments.
The DPP's "Biking On The Road of Constitutional Reforms" campaign is being held around the nation.
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