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Students bid to remove Chiang Kai-shek statues

Taipei Times

Students stand in front of a statue of Chiang Kai-shek at Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School on Monday, holding signs calling for the statue and all others like it to be removed from campuses nationwide.
Photo taken from YouTube

A group of high-school students from across the nation has launched a campaign advocating the removal of statues of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) from all campuses natiownide, announcing their initiative through a video released on Monday.

Taipei Chenggong High School (成功高中) started filming the clip and was later joined by various high schools, including Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School (建國中學), Taipei First Girls’ High School (北一女中), the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University (師大附中), National Tainan Girls’ Senior High School (台南女中) and St Ignatius High School (徐匯中學).

Taiwan and Hong Kong on similar pathways

Lin Thung-hong 林宗弘

A storm has been brewing in Hong Kong over the past month or so. First, 180,000 people took part in the biggest-ever candlelit commemoration of the June 4, 1989, crackdown on China’s democracy movement.

Then, on June 6, opponents of a plan to build two new towns in the northeastern New Territories briefly occupied the Legislative Council lobby.

Toward the end of last month, 780,000 people voted in an unofficial referendum initiated by supporters of the pressure group Occupy Central with Love and Peace, about how citizens should be able to nominate candidates for Hong Kong’s chief executive.

KMT has double standards

Taipei Times Editorial

In one swift move, the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Central Standing Committee on Wednesday approved a motion withdrawing its nomination of scandal-ridden Keelung Council Speaker Huang Ching-tai (黃景泰) as its candidate for the year-end Keelung mayoral election.

According to the motion tabled by Taipei Mayor and KMT Vice Chairman Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) and three other committee members, the party’s image and reputation have been greatly tarnished as a result of the claims that Huang took bribes from a real-estate developer, adding that several polling agencies have also released figures indicating Huang’s declining popularity among voters in the constituency.

Sunflower movement helped lift economy

Huang Tien-lin 黃天麟

Academia Sinica member and Yu Chang Biologics Co founder Chen Lan-bo (陳良博) said recently that the Sunflower movement was “the mightiest movement Taiwan has seen in several decades” and that “this student movement will kick-start the development of Taiwan’s biotech industry.”

In fact, the Sunflower movement will not only give the biotech industry a boost, it has lifted the economy in general and the stock market, and this is not a case of hindsight being 20/20.

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