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Apology must be backed by actions

Taipei Times Editorial

After becoming the first female president of Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is tomorrow expected to become the first president to apologize to the nation’s Aborigines. Let us hope that it is not just an apology, but the beginning of a series of actions to make up for the wrongs that all of the governments that have ruled over Taiwan have committed.

Aboriginal groups put pressure on Tsai

Taipei Times

Aborigines from Hualien County protest at Liberty Square in Taipei yesterday.
Photo provided by The Self Help Association Demanding the Restoration of Aboriginal hunting rights

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) should make concrete promises to pass Aboriginal transitional justice legislation and protect hunting and other rights, Aboriginal activists said yesterday, as hundreds of protesters descended on Taipei, days prior to a widely anticipated official apology to Aborigines tomorrow.

KMT digs its grave on assets issue

Liberty Times Editorial

For some time now, it has been clear to any politician who aspires to reach high office that if a president or ruling party were able to put aside all the difficulties and distractions of government and focus on completing two major tasks — dealing with the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) ill-gotten assets and pension reform — they would have a relatively easy time in office.

KMT still playing public for a fool

Taipei Times Editorial

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) scoffed at comments that it would soon be replaced by the New Power Party, after a poll showed that there is only about a percentage point difference in the public’s preference between the two. However, with the ongoing travesty being played out in the legislature, it is not hard to think that while the replacement might not be soon, it is not as laughably impossible as the KMT believes it is.

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