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Koo calls for Tainan mayor to run

Taipei Times

Presidential adviser Koo Kwang-ming yesterday speaks at a news conference held by the Taiwan Brain Trust in Taipei to announce the think tank’s latest poll results on the 2020 presidential election.
Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times

President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) low polling figures yesterday drew fire from within the pan-green camp, as presidential adviser and independence advocate Koo Kwang-ming (辜寬敏) called for Tainan Mayor William Lai (賴清德) to run for president in 2020.

Intern a communist member: report

Taipei Times

"China Times" intern Han Fu-yu is pictured in an undated photograph posted online by a Taiwanese Internet user on Tuesday, showing that Han is a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Communist Youth League, despite a denial issued by the Chinese-language newspaper earlier that day.
Photo: Screen grab from the Internet

Netizens yesterday challenged the Chinese-language China Times’ claim that its intern, Han Fu-yu (韓福宇), is not a member of the Communist Youth League of China (CYL).

China taints academic exchanges

Taipei Times Editorial

A Taiwanese student was on Sunday identified as having joined Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers in throwing water balloons at Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers at the Legislative Yuan on Wednesday during a scuffle over the Cabinet’s budget proposal for the Forward-looking Infrastructure Development Program.

July 15’s significance for Taiwanese

Jerome Keating

Call it coincidence or call it pure chance, but for the symbolic-minded, it is remarkably fated that the celebrations of US Independence Day (July 4), French Bastille Day (July 14) and Taiwan’s lifting of martial law (July 15) all fall within a two-week period.

However, the real issue here is not the calendar month nor proximity of those days, but what they represent for their respective nations, and this is what Taiwanese need to reflect on concerning July 15 and the inner strength that brought about the lifting of martial law.

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