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MOI to present report on vote-buying

Monday, 30 November 2009 07:15 Taipei Times

The Ministry of the Interior (MOI) said yesterday it would give a progress report on vote-buying cases linked to Saturday’s local government elections at the legislature today, an announcement that drew mixed reactions.

The pan-blue camp said it hoped the ministry would increase its efforts to expose illegal campaign practices, while pan-greens doubted the effectiveness of the crackdown.

Heavyweights campaign ahead of poll

Sunday, 29 November 2009 08:11 Taipei Times

With less than a week before polling, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) heavyweights were busy yesterday criss-crossing the nation to drum up support for their candidates.

Campaigning yesterday, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who also serves as KMT chairman, said he would see to it that electrification of the Hualien-Taitung railway line is completed within five years.

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A leading US academic on Taiwan said Beijing understands that it has an interest in keeping President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in power and for that reason is “not currently pushing its larger agenda.”

Richard Bush, director of the Brookings Institution’s Center for Northeast Asian Policy, told a Washington conference that how China deals with the Taiwan issue would be a “litmus test” on what kind of great power it would eventually be.