The CtiTV news channel (中天新聞台) issued a statement late on Wednesday saying that it had decided to punish the host of its political talk show News Tornado (新聞龍捲風), James Tai (戴立綱), as well as the show’s producer, Chang Wan-ling (張婉玲), for airing derogatory comments about female participants in the Sunflower movement, with each given a major demerit.
Meanwhile, the channel said that it would stop inviting Peng Hua-gan (彭華幹), one of the show’s regular guests, to appear on the program.
The news channel made the decision immediately after it was fined NT$500,000 by the National Communications Commission for broadcasting inappropriate comments on the show, over which the commission received about 6,000 complaints from the public.
The channel had previously defended its program, saying that the host and guests used only positive terms to describe the female protesters.
That stance appeared to have softened when the channel said in Wednesday’s statement that it would have an independent reviewer monitor the production of News Tornado in the future.
In addition, the channel said that it would soon establish a special task force formed by the channel’s senior management as well as experts from outside the firm to enhance the quality of its programs, adding that its employees would also receive further education on gender issues, as well as on the importance of equal rights for both genders.
China has reserved offshore airspace in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea from March 27 to May 6, issuing alerts usually used to warn of military exercises, although no such exercises have been announced, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported yesterday. Reserving such a large area for 40 days without explanation is an “unusual step,” as military exercises normally only last a few days, the paper said. These alerts, known as Notice to Air Missions (Notams), “are intended to inform pilots and aviation authorities of temporary airspace hazards or restrictions,” the article said. The airspace reserved in the alert is
More than 6,000 Taiwanese students have participated in exchange programs in China over the past two years, despite the Mainland Affairs Council’s (MAC) “orange light” travel advisory, government records showed. The MAC’s publicly available registry showed that Taiwanese college and university students who went on exchange programs across the Strait numbered 3,592 and 2,966 people respectively. The National Immigration Agency data revealed that 2,296 and 2,551 Chinese students visited Taiwan for study in the same two years. A review of the Web sites of publicly-run universities and colleges showed that Taiwanese higher education institutions continued to recruit students for Chinese educational programs without
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