Film director Wang Hsiao-ti (王小棣) yesterday said the public should support the Ministry of Culture in the promotion of its policies.
Emerging from a forum held in Taipei to examine the ministry’s achievements since its establishment in May last year, Wang told journalists that culture concerns every citizen, and they have a responsibility to take action.
Mentioning the long delay in assembling the Public Television Service (PTS) board, Wang said the ministry and opposition parties should have been more vocal about the process to gain public confidence.
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The PTS finally formed its new board of directors last month after two-and-a-half years of disputes over the selection of new board members.
Meanwhile, film and theater director Hung Hung (鴻鴻) called on the ministry to speed up the building of cultural infrastructure, such as a national film center, performing arts archive center and national photography museum.
Chen Ban (陳板), an advocate for the preservation of Hakka culture, also urged the ministry to allocate more funds for such projects, saying budgets have declined by half over the past five years.
In response, Lee Lien-chuan (李連權), director of the ministry’s Department of General Planning, said the ministry is hoping to work with the Ministry of Agriculture on community building projects and has also commissioned an association to study the establishment of a photography museum.
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