The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday officially named former Taipei Deputy Mayor Lee Shu-chuan (李四川) as its candidate for New Taipei mayor, lawmaker Wu Tsung- hsien (吳宗憲) for the position of Yilan County magistrate, and physician Weng Shou-liang (翁壽良) as its candidate for Chiayi City mayor.
The nominations were approved at a meeting of the KMT’s Central Standing Committee as part of the party’s list of candidates for the Nov. 28 local elections.
KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) said Lee’s experience in infrastructure development during his tenure as Taipei deputy mayor makes him the party’s best choice for New Taipei, adding that Taipei and New Taipei together could serve as a “locomotive” driving regional development.
Photo : Chang Chia-ming,Taipei Times
Cheng described Wu, a former prosecutor, as a justice- minded legal professional, while noting that the KMT enjoys a strong foundation in Chiayi City under incumbent Mayor Huang Min-hui (黃敏惠), who has begun helping unify the party behind Weng’s campaign.
All the heads of government of New Taipei, Yilan and Chiayi City are currently KMT members, but they are barred from seeking reelection due to term limits.
Meanwhile, the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) has nominated chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) as the party’s candidate for New Taipei mayor, former lawmaker Chang Chi-kai (張?楷) as Chiayi City mayor, and former legislator Chen Wan-hui (陳琬惠) for Yilan County magistrate.
The KMT said it will negotiate with the TPP on a mechanism to coordinate and potentially field joint candidates.
The two parties are scheduled to present a joint policy platform on Saturday.
After outlining shared policy visions, the KMT and TPP will discuss a mechanism to select the strongest joint candidates in mayoral and county magistrate races, according to the two parties.
LOUD AND PROUD Taiwan might have taken a drubbing against Australia and Japan, but you might not know it from the enthusiasm and numbers of the fans Taiwan might not be expected to win the World Baseball Classic (WBC) but their fans are making their presence felt in Tokyo, with tens of thousands decked out in the team’s blue, blowing horns and singing songs. Taiwanese fans have packed out the Tokyo Dome for all three of their games so far and even threatened to drown out home team supporters when their team played Japan on Friday. They blew trumpets, chanted for their favorite players and had their own cheerleading squad who dance on a stage during the game. The team struggled to match that exuberance on the field, with
Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai Cheng-hsiu (蔡政修) led the team that discovered the largest snake fossil ever found in Taiwan. The single trunk vertebra was discovered in Tainan at the Chiting Formation, dated to between 400,000 and 800,000 years ago in the Middle Pleistocene, the paper said. The area also produced Taiwan’s first avian fossil, as well as crocodile, mammoth, saber-toothed cat and rhinoceros fossils, it said. Discoveries
Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai Cheng-hsiu (蔡政修) led the team that discovered the largest snake fossil ever found in Taiwan. A single trunk vertebra was discovered in Tainan at the Chiting Formation, dated to between 800,000 to 400,000 years ago in the Middle Pleistocene, the paper said. The area also produced Taiwan’s first avian fossil, as well as crocodile, mammoth, sabre-toothed cat and rhinoceros fossils, it said. Discoveries
Whether Japan would help defend Taiwan in case of a cross-strait conflict would depend on the US and the extent to which Japan would be allowed to act under the US-Japan Security Treaty, former Japanese minister of defense Satoshi Morimoto said. As China has not given up on the idea of invading Taiwan by force, to what extent Japan could support US military action would hinge on Washington’s intention and its negotiation with Tokyo, Morimoto said in an interview with the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times) yesterday. There has to be sufficient mutual recognition of how Japan could provide
RSS