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Accusations and allegations of politicians plagiarizing master’s theses are cropping up like mushrooms after a spring shower; in the weeks running up to November’s local elections there are likely to be many more.
Allegations first started flying more than a month ago, when Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) accused then-Hsinchu mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) and Ho Li-hsing (賀力行), Lin’s former thesis adviser at Chung Hua University, of contravening the Copyright Act (著作權法) relating to a thesis Lin submitted in 2008.
This whipped up a political hurricane leading to further allegations of plagiarism, creating a
Taipei, Aug. 16 (CNA) National Security Bureau (NSB) Director-General Chen Ming-tong (陳明通) will not teach at National Taiwan University (NTU) during the upcoming semester, but has not resigned, NTU said in a statement Tuesday amid calls for Chen to stand down amid a high-profile plagiarism case involving one of his former graduate students at the university.
National Security Bureau (NSB) Director-General Chen Ming-tong (陳明通), former Hsinchu mayor Lin Chih-chien’s (林智堅) thesis adviser, would not teach at National Taiwan University (NTU) in the coming academic year, the university said yesterday.
The announcement came hours after local Chinese-language media reported that Chen’s profile had been pulled from the faculty information page of the university’s Graduate Institute of National Development Web site, leading to speculation that he had resigned.
Chen was taken off the faculty list after he requested no teaching responsibilities be given to him this year due to rising tensions with China, which leaves him with little time outside