Taiwan Lottery Co (
Chang was appointed president in January when Taiwan Lottery, a subsidiary of Chinatrust Financial Holding Co (
"[Taiwan Lottery's] board approved Chang's resignation at its meeting on Thursday. The vacancy will be filled within the next three months," the company said in a statement issued yesterday.
Taiwan Lottery chairman Oliver Shang (
Aside from Chang's resignation, the company's information technology division chief, Patty Wu (
The Ministry of Finance, which manages the nation's lottery business, said Taiwan Lottery's disciplinary measures were acceptable, as the company needed to overhaul its management to improve the system.
The ministry will meet with representatives of the nation's more than 4,000 lotto vendors next week to listen to their views and suggestions on how Taiwan Lottery could improve the system, said Tsai Ching-nian (蔡慶年), director-general of the ministry's National Treasury Agency.
Under tremendous pressure from the government and the public, Taiwan Lottery invited top executives from its Greek partner, Intralot SA -- the world's second-biggest technology and services company -- to Taiwan last week for trouble shooting.
Since it started offering the exclusive Public Welfare Lottery services on Jan. 1, Taiwan Lottery has had at least a dozen system failures, including large-scale computer crashes and erroneous reporting of lottery prizes.
These recurring problems have triggered complaints, weakened public confidence and led to slow lotto ticket sales.
The ministry has said it would consider revoking Taiwan Lottery's issuing right if it failed to make improvements. But this measure could bring in more problems, affecting the livelihoods of the vendors -- ?many of whom are disabled.
Taiwan Lottery is entrusted by Chinatrust Commercial Bank (
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