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What Taiwan needs to fight corruption

Taiwan News Editorial

Taiwan's chronic affliction of corruption and graft has resurfaced as an urgent political issue, but whether the decision by President and ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou to set up a specialized anti-corruption "Clean Government Administration" under the justice ministry is the best or even a feasible prescription is open to question.

In a high - profile news conference at the Office of the President Tuesday, Ma shook his fist to display his resolve to realize his campaign promise to purge corruption and graft from our political system.

Foiling graft takes more than words

Taipei Times Editorial

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) on Tuesday called for the establishment of an anti-corruption commission. Such a move was warranted, he said, to combat graft and meet public demands for clean government. He added that success depended on the resolve of government leaders, and therein lies the problem.

Ma is the head of a government, as well as a political party, that has long fought legislative efforts to battle corruption and enact necessary sunshine laws. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) — both in and out of power — has persistently dragged its feet on judicial reform. In addition, Ma wants the commission to be a unit of the Ministry of Justice, instead of being independent.

Swaziland reaffirms that ‘marriage’ with Taiwan will not end

Taipei Times

Swaziland’s foreign affairs minister reaffirmed the country’s ties with Taiwan, describing the relationship between the two countries as a marriage that will not end in a divorce, even if China were to approach the country.

During a talk with Taiwanese media on Tuesday, Swazi Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Lutfo Dlamini said that Swaziland and Taiwan “have [been] married for 42 years and we have a provision that there is no room for divorce.”

Taiwan nears Patriot contract: Raytheon

Taipei Times

Raytheon Co, the world’s largest missile maker, said Taiwan was close to signing a contract for three Patriot missile firing batteries and related equipment that the US agreed to sell to the country in January.

The order could be finalized as early as this year, after the legislature approves the accord, Sanjay Kapoor, vice president of Patriot programs, said in an interview at the Farnborough Air Show near London.

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