The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has plans for a new campaign dubbed the "new sunshine politics movement," with the aim of revamping the DPP's image of a party with integrity.
The party will hold a conference on Sunday to discuss reform and will propose the addition of a special article to the party's platform asking all members to avoid corruption and uphold standards of personal integrity.
In the special article, the DPP will ask its legislators to quit other jobs and become professional lawmakers, to avoid any suspicion that they may take advantage of their legislative positions to enrich themselves. High-ranking party officials and government officials will be asked to place their property into trust.
PHOTO: LIAO CHEN-HUEI, TAIPEI TIMES
DPP Secretary-General Lin Chia-lung (
Meanwhile, it appeared yesterday that former premier Frank Hsieh (
Hsieh had a closed-door meeting with DPP Chairman Yu Shyi-kun yesterday after the party's weekly central standing committee.
After the meeting Hsieh said that he could feel the sincerity of the DPP and was willing to reconsider making himself available for the mayoral race.
"Now that there is a candidate who has a strong will to run for Taipei mayor, I think all DPP members should support him," Hsieh said. "But if this person does not sign up for the primary and the DPP asks me to run, I might consider doing it for the party."
Hsieh was referring to former DPP legislator Shen Fu-hsiung (沈富雄), who had picked up his primary application and was ready to register.
Hsieh added he did not want to see two DPP members fight each other in the primary.
"I wish the DPP could be united like before," Hsieh said.
An essay competition jointly organized by a local writing society and a publisher affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might have contravened the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例), the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said on Thursday. “In this case, the partner organization is clearly an agency under the CCP’s Fujian Provincial Committee,” MAC Deputy Minister and spokesperson Liang Wen-chieh (梁文傑) said at a news briefing in Taipei. “It also involves bringing Taiwanese students to China with all-expenses-paid arrangements to attend award ceremonies and camps,” Liang said. Those two “characteristics” are typically sufficient
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
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
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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