Ma Ying-jeou News

The ruling Kuomintang called for solidarity for the local elections on Dec. 5 while the main opposition aims to significantly extend its seats of mayors and magistrates.

EVERYONE'S A CRITIC: With Ma s approval rating below 40 percent, the DPP is hoping that next month s regional elections will be a vote of no confidence in his government By Jenny W. Hsu STAFF REPORTER Sunday, Nov 22, 2009, Page 3 Chinese Nationalist Party Chairman Ma Ying-jeou, right, chants election slogans with the party s candidate for Hsinchu ...

Chinese Nationalist Party Chairman Ma Ying-jeou s absence from the party s latest campaign commercial for next month s local government head elections sparked speculation yesterday about Ma s popularity with the party s candidates.

President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday his administration plans to open a cultural center in Tokyo to facilitate the promotion of cultural exchanges between Taiwan and Japan.

"Hatta Yoichi" is a Japanese animated film about a Japanese engineer who was responsible for the development of irrigation systems in southern Taiwan.

" New Vice Foreign Minister Shen Lyushun marked his debut appearance at the Legislative Yuan amid vehement verbal clashes with aides and lawmakers alike, reports said Friday.

President Ma Ying-jeou expressed his support for the government vaccination campaign against the A swine flu virus by volunteering for a Taiwanese-made vaccine.

SUMMIT MEETING: The Chinese president told Ma Ying-jeou s APEC summit envoy that talks on a proposed ECFA would begin before the year is out AGENCIES , SINGAPORE Sunday, Nov 15, 2009, Page 1 Chinese President Hu Jintao promised Taiwan s APEC envoy Lien Chan that talks on a proposed economic cooperation framework agreement would start this year.

Taiwan should make a greater contribution to the worldwide effort to cope with climate change, President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday.

President Ma Ying-jeou receives an A vaccination at an elementary school in Taipei County yesterday.

Taiwan stocks fell and the currency pared earlier gains on concern a financial cooperation agreement with China lacked details and will take months to implement.

The Republican Party emerged victorious from this month s gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey.

Opposition Democratic Progressive Party Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen demanded that President Ma Ying-jeou`s Chinese Nationalist Party government re-negotiate a controversial protocol signed last month with Washington to open the Taiwan market to imports of American ``beef on bone,`` ground beef and intestines.

Presidential Office spokesman Wang Yu-chi made the remarks in response to a call by Chinese President Hu Jintao in Singapore the previous day that "both sides of the Taiwan Strait should create conditions that are conducive to setting them free from political quandaries." Hu promised Lien Chan, Taiwan's representative at the 2009 Asia Pacific ...

JUMPING THE GUN: The president s age group is slated as the last on a priority list for inoculation, but he is trying to build public confidence in local vaccinations STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA Sunday, Nov 15, 2009, Page 2 President Ma Ying-jeou will be inoculated with a locally produced vaccine against influenza A , also known as swine flu, tomorrow ...

Thousands of Taiwanese Saturday marched in the capital Taipei to protest against the end of a six-year ban on the import of some types of US beef products- which they fear could spread the deadly mad cow disease.

Taipei, Nov. 12 The following is a brief roundup of selected local newspaper editorials Thursday: Liberty Times: SMIC's failure sounds an alarm for policy of promoting investment in China The China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.

Taiwan's envoy to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit said Friday a wide-ranging trade agreement with China to bolster the island's competitiveness could be completed by the end of 2010.

Former vice president Annette Lu yesterday welcomed the Control Yuan's report on the attack on her and then-president Chen Shui-bian on the eve of the presidential election on March 19, 2004, but urged the government watchdog to produce more concrete evidence before it dismisses the investigation conducted by the Tainan Public Prosecutor's Office.

In Kaohsiung, the largest city in southern Taiwan, they know what it means to offend the Chinese government.