The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday questioned the source of funding for the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) election advertisements, saying it suspected the party of financing its campaign with stolen assets.
Hsieh Hsin-ni (
Hsieh estimated that a KMT ad that appeared on the Chinese-language Apple Daily for 43 consecutive days cost more than NT$30 million (US$937,500) -- rather than the NT$10 million the KMT had claimed.
DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's (
Hsieh Hsin-ni also asked the KMT to offer a clear account on how many of its members had posed as ordinary people in the ads to criticize the government. The DPP accused the KMT's deputy party director in Pingtung County of posing as the owner of a breakfast shop in one of the TV commercials to complain about the economy.
In Kaohsiung County, President Chen Shui-bian (
Chen pledged that the stolen assets reclaimed from the KMT, which he claimed are worth more than NT$200 billion, would be used to finance five educational programs.
They are to offer free kindergarten education, free textbooks for elementary and junior-high school students, free lunches for elementary and junior-high school students, free tuition for junior high school and junior vocational school students and interest-free loans to college students and young business entrepreneurs.
Describing the KMT as an "irrational" opposition party, Chen criticized the KMT's objections to the referendum proposal as a means to protect its dubious properties.
The president also urged the KMT to keep the public in mind by passing the government budget for next year, as well as unfreezing the rest of this year's budget.
Taiwan would benefit from more integrated military strategies and deployments if the US and its allies treat the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea as a “single theater of operations,” a Taiwanese military expert said yesterday. Shen Ming-shih (沈明室), a researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said he made the assessment after two Japanese military experts warned of emerging threats from China based on a drill conducted this month by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Eastern Theater Command. Japan Institute for National Fundamentals researcher Maki Nakagawa said the drill differed from the
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