The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislative caucus yesterday said it would not infringe on the rights of its legislators to propose bills, after Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) was urged to screen proposals before sending them to the floor.
KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (
Wu and Wang also agreed that the caucus would sift through major bills before presenting them on the legislative floor.
Wu urged Wang to personally review all the proposals before allowing the party's legislators to propose them in the legislature.
KMT legislative whip Kuo Su-chun (
"How can legislators serve their voters if we can't propose bills?" Kuo said at the Legislative Yuan.
Meanwhile, KMT caucus whip Tseng Yung-chuan (
KMT legislators Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) and Chu Feng-chih (朱鳳芝) also said they were interested in the position and would apply today.
Hung said the KMT should choose the deputy legislative speaker candidate democratically and not through closed-door negotiations.
Wu will meet the interested candidates tomorrow to discuss the selection.
The KMT caucus will hold a straw poll if the meeting does not determine a single nominee, he said, adding that the committee would finalize the nomination on Wednesday.
The German city of Hamburg on Oct. 14 named a bridge “Kaohsiung-Brucke” after the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung. The footbridge, formerly known as F566, is to the east of the Speicherstadt, the world’s largest warehouse district, and connects the Dar-es-Salaam-Platz to the Brooktorpromenade near the Port of Hamburg on the Elbe River. Timo Fischer, a Free Democratic Party member of the Hamburg-Mitte District Assembly, in May last year proposed the name change with support from members of the Social Democratic Party and the Christian Democratic Union. Kaohsiung and Hamburg in 1999 inked a sister city agreement, but despite more than a quarter-century of
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday expressed “grave concerns” after Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (黃循財) reiterated the city-state’s opposition to “Taiwanese independence” during a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang (李強). In Singapore on Saturday, Wong and Li discussed cross-strait developments, the Singaporean Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. “Prime Minister Wong reiterated that Singapore has a clear and consistent ‘one China’ policy and is opposed to Taiwan independence,” it said. MOFA responded that it is an objective fact and a common understanding shared by many that the Republic of China (ROC) is an independent, sovereign nation, with world-leading
The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) has been investigating nine shell companies working with Prince Holding Group, and the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office is seeking further prosecution of alleged criminals, a source said yesterday. The nine companies and three Taiwanese nationals were named by the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Oct. 14 as Specially Designated Nationals as a result of a US federal court indictment. Prince Holding founder Chen Zhi (陳志) has been charged with fraud, conspiracy, money laundering and overseeing Prince Holding’s suspected forced-labor camps in Cambodia, the indictment says. Intelligence shared between Taiwan,
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