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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) and Taipei Deputy Mayor Vivian Huang (黃珊珊) yesterday criticized Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taipei mayoral candidate Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) for having defended former Hsinchu mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) amid allegations of academic plagiarism.
Chiang is also a candidate for Taipei mayor in November’s local elections, while Huang is expected to run as an independent, but has not formally declared her candidacy.
National Taiwan University’s (NTU) Office of Academic Affairs on Tuesday revoked Lin’s master’s degree after an NTU ethics committee said that he had plagiarized the thesis of another graduate student.
Lin, who was the
Chen Hsin-yu (陳信瑜) on Sunday last week resigned as commissioner of the Taipei Department of Labor, two days after being charged with corruption by the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office.
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) has not tapped a replacement for Chen, who was investigated in connection to discrepancies in the records of an executive slush fund.
Prosecutors are seeking to charge her for allegedly contravening the Anti-Corruption Act (貪污治罪條例) and forgery laws of the Criminal Code.
Complaints were first brought against Chen by Taipei city councilors, who accused her of improperly sharing confidential information about city residents with Ko and Taipei Deputy Mayor
An alliance of pro-Taiwan groups yesterday threw their support behind Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taipei mayoral candidate Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), calling on voters to end what it called the “24-year-old reign by pan-blue forces” in the capital.
Addressing the crowd, Chen said he was running for mayor to make Taipei and the nation better places to live.
“Taipei is the capital, and it is the locomotive driving the nation in plowing ahead,” said Chen, who spoke mainly in Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese), as he told the groups to call him “A-diong” (阿中).
Chen pointed to his administrative and organizational experience, having served
Former minister of health and welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) yesterday unveiled the central visual design for his Taipei mayoral campaign, while two of his potential opponents, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) and Taipei Deputy Mayor Vivian Huang (黃珊珊), attended an event promoting food and agriculture education.
The design for Chen’s campaign a gray curve, a green arrow pointing upward and a black circle with the words “get things done” (把事做好) was presented by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate in the morning at the Mayor’s Residence Arts Salon, a Japanese colonial-era home in Zhongzheng District (中正)