Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou's (
Ma confirmed yesterday that Chow would join him in attending the Valentine's Day party held by Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (
"We do have plans [to attend the event]. Mr Hu and his wife are old friends and we are more than happy to accept their invitation," Ma said yesterday in Tainan County.
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Chow, a US-trained lawyer, usually avoids publicity and has only campaigned for her husband on the eve of the two elections he ran in for Taipei mayor.
Even after Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's (謝長廷) camp raised questions about Chow's investment activities and suggested she might have engaged in insider trading, she declined to comment on the matter in public, choosing instead to declare her innocence in a written statement.
Ma said he was not worried about being compared with Hu, who is not shy about showing his love for his wife in public. Ma said that he and his wife "would abide by the organizers' requests" during the Valentine's Day party.
Ma yesterday continued his "long stay" nationwide campaign in Tainan County, a traditional pan-green stronghold, earning a show of support from the director of Tainan Doctors' Association Wang Cheng-kuan (
"I struggled before deciding to give my support to Ma. I've always been a pan-green supporter and shifting my support to a pan-blue politician feels a little strange," Wang said yesterday.
Wang's move came after two major religious figures, Master Miao Tien (妙天) and Master Lin Yun (林雲), and former Miaoli County commissioner Fan Chen-tsung (范振宗), one of the DPP's chief campaigners in the Hakka community, recently came out in support of Ma.
Hsieh yesterday shrugged off the support Ma has received from pan-green supporters, while condemning his rival for not debating with him face-to-face.
"We should create a puppet character for Ma, and the puppet should be called `one-sentence Ma' because his only response to his opponents' challenges is to say `thanks for your comment,'" Hsieh said yesterday during a visit to Vincent Huang (
Hsieh on Saturday urged Ma to hold a debate on their respective policies on Saturday.
Asked for a response, Ma said: "Thanks for your comment."
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching