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Jennifer Wang’s crocodile tears

Taipei Times Editorial

In tears, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice presidential candidate Jennifer Wang (王如玄) yesterday apologized to the public over her “investments” in military housing units, while stressing that all the transactions were legal and that she is concerned about issues that affect people from disadvantaged groups, though a look at her political career shows just the opposite.

Ma’s failure to accept democracy

Jerome Keating

As Taiwanese voters gear up for the Jan. 16 presidential and legislative elections, a stark irony has become apparent. Not only has President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) popularity continued to hover at extremely low levels of between 9 and 19 percent for the past year, but he has also been described by the international media as a “yesterday man,” even before he has completed his second term as president.

CCP is the terror group threatening the nation

Paul Lin 林保華

Late last month, during a speech at the East Asia summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, US President Barack Obama said that in the Asia-Pacific region, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea are among the members of its coalition against the Islamic State group. Several days later, the extremists released a video featuring the flags of the members of Obama’s coalition that included a Republic of China (ROC) flag.

Students abandon curriculum meeting

Taipei Times

Students who participated in an “expert consultation meeting” at National Taiwan Normal University yesterday protest outside the venue after withdrawing from the meeting in protest of what they said was the Ministry of Education’s attempt to downplay controversy.
Photo: Wu Po-hsuen, Taipei Times

Students who participated in a so-called “expert consultation meeting” yesterday to review issues surrounding controversial history curriculum changes unanimously withdrew from the meeting venue in protest of what they said was the Ministry of Education’s attempt to downplay the controversy.

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