Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (
"Buying time slots from licensed radio stations is aimed at balancing media coverage and improving my profile in the central and southern media," Ma said yesterday during an interview with Feng Ming radio station in Kaohsiung.
The president of Taiwan Media Watch said on Monday that the KMT's move might violate the law in that it was seeking to pass off ads as regular radio programs.
But Ma said the party was in compliance with the law and was only seeking to counter rumors spread by underground radio stations.
"Underground radio stations claimed that I would cut subsidies to the elderly if elected president and I am annoyed by these rumors," he said.
In response to criticism from his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) counterpart Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) that the KMT was using money gleaned from its stolen assets to pay for propaganda, Ma said the party had acted within the law. He also condemned the DPP for spending public funds on a rally last weekend in support of its proposed referendum on a UN bid.
KMT Secretary-General Wu Den-yih (
The supporter suggested that the KMT promote itself by broadcasting in Hoklo (also known as Taiwanese), arguing that many people in southern Taiwan only listen to local radio stations.
In addition to Taiwanese, Wu said the commercials would also be broadcast in Mandarin and Hakka.
Ma's campaign office said they would arrange radio interviews for the presidential candidate to discuss his campaign platforms in Hakka during his visits to Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Miaoli counties.
More than half of the bamboo vipers captured in Tainan in the past few years were found in the city’s Sinhua District (新化), while other districts had smaller catches or none at all. Every year, Tainan captures about 6,000 snakes which have made their way into people’s homes. Of the six major venomous snakes in Taiwan, the cobra, the many-banded krait, the brown-spotted pit viper and the bamboo viper are the most frequently captured. The high concentration of bamboo vipers captured in Sinhua District is puzzling. Tainan Agriculture Bureau Forestry and Nature Conservation Division head Chu Chien-ming (朱健明) earlier this week said that the
Kenting National Park service technician Yang Jien-fon (楊政峰) won a silver award in World Grand Prix Photography Awards Spring Season for his photograph of two male rat snakes intertwined in combat. Yang’s colleagues at Kenting National Park said he is a master of nature photography who has been held back by his job in civil service. The awards accept entries in all four seasons across six categories: architectural and urban photography, black-and-white and fine art photography, commercial and fashion photography, documentary and people photography, nature and experimental photography, and mobile photography. Awards are ranked according to scores and divided into platinum, gold and
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