Vice Premier Paul Chiu (邱正雄) said yesterday that were no plans to reshuffle the Cabinet and that the Cabinet’s spokeswoman was doing a good job.
His remarks came after former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Shen Fu-hsiung (沈富雄) was quoted by the Chinese-language United Daily News as saying that the problem with President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration was that “there are a lot of not so capable but nice people” in the Presidential Office and the Executive Yuan.
Shen, whom Ma nominated as vice president of the Control Yuan but failed to win legislative approval, said the Cabinet should be reshuffled within three months.
“One month is enough to see if a Cabinet member or a minister is capable of doing a good job,” Shen said.
Government Information Office (GIO) Minister Vanessa Shih (史亞平) should go because she doesn’t understand many of the nation’s policies, Shen said.
But Chiu said Shih, a former career diplomat, was qualified.
“Shih understands the nation’s policies quite well and her remarks are precise,” Chiu said.
Premier Liu Chao-shiuan (劉兆玄) is “100 percent positive about Shih’s performance,” Chiu said.
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chen Ting-fei (陳亭妃) also defended Shih, saying that she should not bear the blame for the Cabinet’s lackluster performance because Liu has not been clear about his own policies, and is fickle.
Prosecutors in New Taipei City yesterday indicted 31 individuals affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) for allegedly forging thousands of signatures in recall campaigns targeting three Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers. The indictments stem from investigations launched earlier this year after DPP lawmakers Su Chiao-hui (蘇巧慧) and Lee Kuen-cheng (李坤城) filed criminal complaints accusing campaign organizers of submitting false signatures in recall petitions against them. According to the New Taipei District Prosecutors Office, a total of 2,566 forged recall proposal forms in the initial proposer petition were found during the probe. Among those
ECHOVIRUS 11: The rate of enterovirus infections in northern Taiwan increased last week, with a four-year-old girl developing acute flaccid paralysis, the CDC said Two imported cases of chikungunya fever were reported last week, raising the total this year to 13 cases — the most for the same period in 18 years, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday. The two cases were a Taiwanese and a foreign national who both arrived from Indonesia, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Center Deputy Director Lee Chia-lin (李佳琳) said. The 13 cases reported this year are the most for the same period since chikungunya was added to the list of notifiable communicable diseases in October 2007, she said, adding that all the cases this year were imported, including 11 from
China might accelerate its strategic actions toward Taiwan, the South China Sea and across the first island chain, after the US officially entered a military conflict with Iran, as Beijing would perceive Washington as incapable of fighting a two-front war, a military expert said yesterday. The US’ ongoing conflict with Iran is not merely an act of retaliation or a “delaying tactic,” but a strategic military campaign aimed at dismantling Tehran’s nuclear capabilities and reshaping the regional order in the Middle East, said National Defense University distinguished adjunct lecturer Holmes Liao (廖宏祥), former McDonnell Douglas Aerospace representative in Taiwan. If
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) today condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after the Czech officials confirmed that Chinese agents had surveilled Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) during her visit to Prague in March last year. Czech Military Intelligence director Petr Bartovsky yesterday said that Chinese operatives had attempted to create the conditions to carry out a demonstrative incident involving Hsiao, going as far as to plan a collision with her car. Hsiao was vice president-elect at the time. The MAC said that it has requested an explanation and demanded a public apology from Beijing. The CCP has repeatedly ignored the desires
RSS