Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Hsiao Bi-khim (
But her silence did not mean that she interpreted the radio show's criticism, in which she was dubbed "Chinese Khim" (
In the latest article posted on her Web blog on Sunday, Hsiao said she felt secluded because no one from within the party gave her a hand after she was targeted by the "elimination" campaign.
The "Surgical Blade Action" launched by the radio show Taiwanese Club last December charged that Hsiao was close to the DPP's former New Tide faction, whose members were largely targeted by the show for their outspokenness and criticism of the DPP.
Last Tuesday, DPP Chairman Yu Shyi-kun met the hosts of the show, who presented him with some 62,000 signatures they had gathered from the campaign.
Yu said he would take their recommendations seriously.
"When we were being criticized by our supporters, did any party leader step up to ensure basic respect among the members, without consideration for personal election results?" Hsiao wrote in her blog. "I thought the primary was a competition about who can do more for Taiwan. Since when has the silence of party leaders turned the party's primary into a platform for dispute?"
"I can be spirited when facing enemies [in the international arena]," she wrote. "But I am saddened by all the insinuation because it shows Taiwanese do not appreciate the value of unity."
Asked by the Taipei Times to comment on the matter, DPP Deputy Secretary-General Tsai Huang-liang (蔡煌瑯) said the party agreed that the criticism by grassroots supporters was not entirely fair.
The party's primary regulations forbid personal attacks and the party is in the process of ascertaining whether the supporters' criticism violated the regulations, he added.
A year-long renovation of Taipei’s Bangka Park (艋舺公園) began yesterday, as city workers fenced off the site and cleared out belongings left by homeless residents who had been living there. Despite protests from displaced residents, a city official defended the government’s relocation efforts, saying transitional housing has been offered. The renovation of the park in Taipei’s Wanhua District (萬華), near Longshan Temple (龍山寺), began at 9am yesterday, as about 20 homeless people packed their belongings and left after being asked to move by city personnel. Among them was a 90-year-old woman surnamed Wang (王), who last week said that she had no plans
TO BE APPEALED: The environment ministry said coal reduction goals had to be reached within two months, which was against the principle of legitimate expectation The Taipei High Administrative Court on Thursday ruled in favor of the Taichung Environmental Protection Bureau in its administrative litigation against the Ministry of Environment for the rescission of a NT$18 million fine (US$609,570) imposed by the bureau on the Taichung Power Plant in 2019 for alleged excess coal power generation. The bureau in November 2019 revised what it said was a “slip of the pen” in the text of the operating permit granted to the plant — which is run by Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) — in October 2017. The permit originally read: “reduce coal use by 40 percent from Jan.
China might accelerate its strategic actions toward Taiwan, the South China Sea and across the first island chain, after the US officially entered a military conflict with Iran, as Beijing would perceive Washington as incapable of fighting a two-front war, a military expert said yesterday. The US’ ongoing conflict with Iran is not merely an act of retaliation or a “delaying tactic,” but a strategic military campaign aimed at dismantling Tehran’s nuclear capabilities and reshaping the regional order in the Middle East, said National Defense University distinguished adjunct lecturer Holmes Liao (廖宏祥), former McDonnell Douglas Aerospace representative in Taiwan. If
‘SPEY’ REACTION: Beijing said its Eastern Theater Command ‘organized troops to monitor and guard the entire process’ of a Taiwan Strait transit China sent 74 warplanes toward Taiwan between late Thursday and early yesterday, 61 of which crossed the median line in the Taiwan Strait. It was not clear why so many planes were scrambled, said the Ministry of National Defense, which tabulated the flights. The aircraft were sent in two separate tranches, the ministry said. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday “confirmed and welcomed” a transit by the British Royal Navy’s HMS Spey, a River-class offshore patrol vessel, through the Taiwan Strait a day earlier. The ship’s transit “once again [reaffirmed the Strait’s] status as international waters,” the foreign ministry said. “Such transits by
RSS