The chairwoman of Taipei Financial Center Corp (TFCC), which manages Taiwan’s landmark skyscraper Taipei 101, earlier this week confirmed that Cathy Yang (楊文琪), the TFCC general manager responsible for the building’s operation, has been recruited to manage Shanghai Tower, the tallest building in China and the second-tallest in the world.
“People have legs,” TFCC chairwoman Christina Song (宋文琪) said when asked for comment on a newspaper report on Monday that the Shanghai Tower operator had succeeded in recruiting Yang by offering her a salary that doubles her wage at TFCC.
Giving Yang her blessing at her new job, Song said talented people have the opportunity to work anywhere in the world.
“Taipei 101 also welcomes international talent to work in Taiwan,” she said. “Talent flows are part of a virtuous circle.”
Taipei 101 already has an established legal representative procedure, with no resulting gaps at any work level that could affect the company’s operations, Song said.
Yang was one of the founding members of the Taipei 101 management team. A management professional, she succeeded in raising the lease rate of office units in the 508m-tall skyscraper from between 50 and 60 percent in the first few years of the building’s commercial run to the current 97 percent, the United Daily News said.
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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