Reporters covering the Taipei City Government and Council yesterday gave Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (
The survey was conducted by four Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City councilors, Lee Yen-hsiu (
More than 70 percent of the reporters questioned agreed that Ma's municipal work had suffered since he took over as KMT chairman in August last year.
Selecting from municipal policies, the reporters picked the launch of the Easy Card, the Taipei Noodle Festival and the development of the Neihu Science Park as being successful municipal developments.
However, they said that the Transportation Department's lackluster effort in towing vehicles that violate traffic rules and failed attempts by the city to revive some traditional markets, including the Jiangcheng Circle, required significant improvements, the survey showed.
Defending his municipal policies, Ma yesterday blamed the local media for focusing on political news, and said that he continued to concentrate on his duties as mayor.
"There are many successful policies you didn't notice ? Besides, I've asked our media friends to pay more attention to municipal news, but they only ask questions regarding the political situation," Ma said yesterday in a question-and-answer session.
Lee and Chin criticized the city government for delaying many municipal projects and urged Ma not to leave unfinished projects to the next mayor.
Ma will complete his final term as mayor in three months.
There are 77 incidents of Taiwanese travelers going missing in China between January last year and last month, the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) said. More than 40 remain unreachable, SEF Secretary-General Luo Wen-jia (羅文嘉) said on Friday. Most of the reachable people in the more than 30 other incidents were allegedly involved in fraud, while some had disappeared for personal reasons, Luo said. One of these people is Kuo Yu-hsuan (郭宇軒), a 22-year-old Taiwanese man from Kaohsiung who went missing while visiting China in August. China’s Taiwan Affairs Office last month said in a news statement that he was under investigation
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China is attempting to subsume Taiwanese culture under Chinese culture by promulgating legislation on preserving documents on ties between the Minnan region and Taiwan, a Taiwanese academic said yesterday. China on Tuesday enforced the Fujian Province Minnan and Taiwan Document Protection Act to counter Taiwanese cultural independence with historical evidence that would root out misleading claims, Chinese-language media outlet Straits Today reported yesterday. The act is “China’s first ad hoc local regulations in the cultural field that involve Taiwan and is a concrete step toward implementing the integrated development demonstration zone,” Fujian Provincial Archives deputy director Ma Jun-fan (馬俊凡) said. The documents
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