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OCAC slams Hong Kong magazine over interview

The Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission (OCAC) yesterday blasted a Hong Kong magazine that claimed the government's recent desinification effort has made Taiwan a less appealing destination for Malaysian-Chinese students.

At the year-end press conference, commission Chairwoman Chang Fu-mei (張富美) said Yazhou Zhoukan made the false claim in an exclusive interview with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice presidential candidate Vincent Siew (蕭萬長). She said the magazine had been unfriendly toward the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government.

Chang said the magazine asked Siew about his feelings on the declining number of Malaysian-Chinese students in Taiwan since he had been deputy representative to Malaysia during the 1960s.

The author credited Siew for opening up Taiwan as a study destination for Malaysian-Chinese, she said, even though the commission had begun promoting Taiwan to Malaysian-Chinese long before Siew's posting.

The commission said the number of Malaysian-Chinese studying in Taiwan had increased over the past few years, from 745 in 2005 to 1,129 last year.

Students from Malaysia make up 29.17 percent of all the foreign students studying here, she said.
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