The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday urged the National Communications Commission (NCC) to immediately take back the radio frequencies used by the Broadcast Co of China (BCC).
DPP Deputy Secretary-General Tsai Huang-liang (蔡煌瑯) told a press conference that as radio frequencies are public property, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) cannot sell or transfer the BCC.
As former UFO Radio president and New Party founder Jaw Shaw-kong (
Selling the BCC to Jaw would help "concentrate valuable public goods on a few people," because Jaw would be able to control both radio stations, Tsai said.
He said both the KMT and Jaw needed to explain to the public whether there had been any under-the-table deals between them.
Tsai said that much of the BCC property was part of the KMT's "controversial assets." He said that if Jaw insisted on buying the BCC, he would not be able to refuse to return the BCC to the nation once a referendum on recovering the KMT's stolen assets was held.
The KMT sold its shares in the BCC to a Chinatimes Co subsidiary for NT$4 billion (US$122 million) last December.
The Chinese-language United Daily News said yesterday that the China Times Co sold the BCC's media business department to Jaw last weekend for between NT$600 million and NT$700 million.
Jaw confirmed yesterday that he had bought the department, but he refused to say for how much.
He also said he did not make the deal to help KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (
Meanwhile, the NCC said the Broadcast and Television Law (廣播電視法) bars radio stations from selling or transferring frequencies at will. However, in the BCC case, the law would allow the Chinatimes Co to transfer its shares to UFO Radio.
"Legally, the BCC still possesses the right to use its frequencies, since they own the licenses to operate them," a commission official said on condition of anonymity.
Since the radio station had not broken the law, the commission could not revoke its licenses or reclaim its frequencies, he said.
The CIA has a message for Chinese government officials worried about their place in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) government: Come work with us. The agency released two Mandarin-language videos on social media on Thursday inviting disgruntled officials to contact the CIA. The recruitment videos posted on YouTube and X racked up more than 5 million views combined in their first day. The outreach comes as CIA Director John Ratcliffe has vowed to boost the agency’s use of intelligence from human sources and its focus on China, which has recently targeted US officials with its own espionage operations. The videos are “aimed at
STEADFAST FRIEND: The bills encourage increased Taiwan-US engagement and address China’s distortion of UN Resolution 2758 to isolate Taiwan internationally The Presidential Office yesterday thanked the US House of Representatives for unanimously passing two Taiwan-related bills highlighting its solid support for Taiwan’s democracy and global participation, and for deepening bilateral relations. One of the bills, the Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act, requires the US Department of State to periodically review its guidelines for engagement with Taiwan, and report to the US Congress on the guidelines and plans to lift self-imposed limitations on US-Taiwan engagement. The other bill is the Taiwan International Solidarity Act, which clarifies that UN Resolution 2758 does not address the issue of the representation of Taiwan or its people in
US Indo-Pacific Commander Admiral Samuel Paparo on Friday expressed concern over the rate at which China is diversifying its military exercises, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Saturday. “The rates of change on the depth and breadth of their exercises is the one non-linear effect that I’ve seen in the last year that wakes me up at night or keeps me up at night,” Paparo was quoted by FT as saying while attending the annual Sedona Forum at the McCain Institute in Arizona. Paparo also expressed concern over the speed with which China was expanding its military. While the US
SHIFT: Taiwan’s better-than-expected first-quarter GDP and signs of weakness in the US have driven global capital back to emerging markets, the central bank head said The central bank yesterday blamed market speculation for the steep rise in the local currency, and urged exporters and financial institutions to stay calm and stop panic sell-offs to avoid hurting their own profitability. The nation’s top monetary policymaker said that it would step in, if necessary, to maintain order and stability in the foreign exchange market. The remarks came as the NT dollar yesterday closed up NT$0.919 to NT$30.145 against the US dollar in Taipei trading, after rising as high as NT$29.59 in intraday trading. The local currency has surged 5.85 percent against the greenback over the past two sessions, central
RSS