The Executive Yuan has nominated Howard Shyr (石世豪), a professor in the Institute of Financial and Economic Law at National Dong Hwa University, as chairperson of the National Communications Commission (NCC), to replace Su Herng (蘇蘅), whose term expires at the end of July.
Shyr served as vice chairperson and spokesperson of the seven-seat NCC during the commission’s first term from 2006 to 2008.
Yu Hsiao-cheng (虞孝成), a professor at the Institute of Management of Technology at National Chiao Tung University, was nominated to succeed Chen Jeng-chang (陳正倉) as vice chairperson of the NCC.
Peng Shin-yi (彭心儀), a professor and director at the Institute of Law for Science and Technology at National Tsing Hua -University, and Chen Yuan-ling (陳元玲), director and general manager of the Integral Investment Holdings Group, were also nominated as members of the NCC.
Chen Jeng-chang, as well as NCC members Weng Hsiao-ling (翁曉玲) and Chung Chi-hui (鍾起惠), will also complete their terms at the end of July.
The nominations are pending legislative confirmation.
Su recently confirmed to lawmakers that NCC members Chang Shi-chung (張時中) and Wei Shyue-win (魏學文), two of the four NCC members tasked with reviewing the controversial bid by Want Want China Broadband to acquire 11 cable television services owned by China Network Systems (CNS), were considering resigning.
The terms of service for Chang, Wei and NCC member Liu Chorng-jian (劉崇堅) are scheduled to end at the end of July 2014.
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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