The office of president-elect Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) announced yesterday that former Taichung County commissioner Liao Liao-yi (廖了以) will be the new minister of the interior.
Liao’s nomination fills the post left vacant after the untimely death of Liao Fung-te (廖風德) on Saturday.
Liao Fung-te died of heart and lung failure after collapsing during a hike. He was 57.
Having served as director of the KMT’s organization and development committee, Liao Fung-te also helped the party win legislative and presidential elections before he was chosen to lead the Ministry of the Interior.
Liao Liao-yi had been named deputy minister of interior, and had met with Liao Feng-te several times to discuss ministerial affairs before Liao Fung-te’s sudden death.
Liao Liao-yi was the director of Ma’s Taichung County support group and was responsible for arranging Ma’s schedule in the area during the president-elect’s nationwide campaign tour.
He was the mayor of Taichung County’s Fengyuan City before being elected Taichung County commissioner.
Ma’s office yesterday also announced that Coast Guard Administration Minister Wang Chin-wang (王進旺) will remain in the post.
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