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Tsai stresses commitment to reforms

Taipei Times

President Tsai Ing-wen, second row, sixth left, poses for a picture with the attendees at the Youth Policy Forum’s national conference at the Ministry of Education in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: CNA

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday reiterated her administration’s commitment to pension reform, saying that she will take full responsibility for its effects, following a protest on Saturday against the government’s planned reforms.

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Cronyism crippling the young: groups

Taipei Times

A group of lawyers and civic groups yesterday said that if the “cronyism in the finance sector and judiciary” that began under the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) persists, young people — who are facing the concentration of capital, impoverishment and a low birth rate — risk becoming a “crumbled generation.”

Lawyer Fan Jen-yu (樊仁裕) said that the finance sector has hired people from the former administration to be their “door gods.”

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Civic groups warn of impending financial crisis

Taipei Times

Union of Taiwanese Teachers director Neil Peng, second left, yesterday speaks at a news conference in Taipei, urging the government to reform the pension system.
Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei Times

A number of civic groups yesterday said that President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) should be wary of an impending financial crisis facing the nation if the pension system does not undergo a systematic reform.

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Ill-gotten asset panel to ‘settle’ accounts: Koo

Taipei Times

Committee of Illegal Party Asset Settlement Chairman Wellington Koo (顧立雄) yesterday said the organization would return the ill-gotten assets obtained by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) during its authoritarian rule to their rightful owners.

During a plaque unveiling ceremony in Taipei, Premier Lin Chuan (林全) presented Koo with a seal and an appointment order, officially launching the committee.

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Newsflash

A conference on “International Organizations and Taiwan” was told on Monday that President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) efforts to increase Taipei’s international space had only limited success.

“China has not only withheld support for further expansion of Taiwan’s international space, it has also continued long-standing efforts to squeeze Taiwan’s international space,” said Bonnie Glaser, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The conference, organized by the Washington-based Brookings Institution, heard that during Ma’s first year in office Beijing showed some “diplomatic flexibility,” but that more recently there had been no major progress.