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Wu Chun-li
Wu Chun-li (; born 1962) is a Taiwanese politician from Taitung county. He was elected Taitung County Magistrate in 2005 but was barred from taking office due to a corruption conviction. Career Taitung Council Wu Chun-li entered politics in 1998 as a KMT representative and became Taitung Council Speaker the following year. He was known for his opposition to the Taitung incinerator and was instrumental in having the budget for the incinerator frozen. In 1999 he was charged with corruption in relation to a budget skimming scheme. Taitung Magistrate elections In 2001 Wu Chun-li ran as the KMT candidate for County Magistrate but lost to Hsu Ching-yuan. In 2002 Wu was sentenced to 16 years jail in relation to the 1999 corruption charge. This was reduced to 7 years and eight months following a High Court review in Hualien. Wu maintained his innocence and appealed the decision. 2005 Election In 2005 Wu again ran for Taitung County Magistrate, this time as an independent. The incu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hsu Ching-yuan
Hsu Ching-yuan () is a former Taiwanese politician. Huang served as a member of the Taitung County Council. During his career he ran as a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) representative, an independent, and a People First Party (PFP) candidate while also forming an alliance with and campaigning for the Democratic Progressive Party The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a Taiwanese nationalist and centre-left political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). Controlling both the Republic of China presidency and the unicameral Legislative Yuan, it is the majori ... (DPP). He rose to become Taitung County Magistrate from 2001-2005 before quitting in the middle of his reelection campaign in 2005 and disappearing from public life. It is believed he left Taiwan to live in Canada. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hsu, Ching-yuan 1957 births Living people Magistrates of Taitung County People First Party Members of the Legislative Yuan Kuomintang politicians in Taiwan M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuang Li-chen
Kuang Li-chen (; born 12 March 1963) is a Taiwanese politician. She was married to Wu Chun-li, who was elected to the Taitung County magistracy in 2005. Wu was suspended immediately after inauguration on charges of corruption and subsequently divorced Kuang so she could run for his post in her own right, as Taiwanese law forbid the appointment of spouses or other relatives as a magisterial deputy. Kuang joined the Kuomintang and won the Taitung magisterial by-election in April 2006, over three independent candidates. During her term, broadband internet access was installed throughout Taitung County. During the transitional justice referendum of 2008, she was a proponent of two-step voting, in which voters mark one ballot for political candidates before receiving a separate ballot for referendum questions. Kuang presided over the eighth Festival of Austronesian Culture and the Taitung portion of the 2007 Wan-an exercise, an annual air-raid drill. She became well-known for promot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma Ying-jeou
Ma Ying-jeou ( zh, 馬英九, born 13 July 1950) is a Hong Kong-born Taiwanese politician who served as president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. Previously, he served as justice minister from 1993 to 1996 and mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006. He served as chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 2005 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2014. Ma first won the presidency by 58.45% of the popular vote in the presidential election of 2008, and was re-elected in 2012 with 51.6% of the vote. He was sworn into office as president on 20 May 2008, and sworn in as the Chairman of the Kuomintang on 17 October 2009; he resigned as chairman of Kuomintang on 3 December 2014. Ma's term as president saw warmer relations with Mainland China. He became the first ROC leader to meet with an incumbent General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party ( PRC top leader) when he met Xi Jinping in Singapore in November 2015. Both leaders addressed each other using the honorific '' Xiansheng'' (Chine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typhoon Fung-wong
Fung-wong may refer to four tropical cyclones in the Pacific Ocean. The name, contributed by Hong Kong, refers to Lantau Peak (Phoenix Mountain), the highest point in Hong Kong's Lantau Island. The name is also the Cantonese pronunciation and romanization of the word for the Chinese phoenix (鳳凰, fènghuáng). * Typhoon Fung-wong (2002) (T0211, 15W, Kaka) – recurved out of the ocean * Typhoon Fung-wong (2008) Typhoon Fung-wong, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Igme, was a deadly typhoon in the 2008 Pacific typhoon season which made landfall on Taiwan and China. Typhoon Fung-wong reached peak intensity of a Category 2 typhoon on the Saffir-Si ... (T0808, 09W, Igme) – struck Taiwan and China * Tropical Storm Fung-wong (2014) (T1416, 16W, Mario) – struck Philippines, Taiwan and Eastern China * Severe Tropical Storm Fung-wong (2019) (T1927, 28W, Sarah) – churned out of the ocean {{DEFAULTSORT:Fung-wong Pacific typhoon set index articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taitung Miramar Resort
Taitung Miramar Resort () is a BOT (Build Operate Transfer) development on Shanyuan (杉原灣)/Fudafudak in Beinan Township, Taitung County, Taiwan. In 2004, a contract was signed by Miramar Resort Taitung Ltd (majority owned by Huang Chun-fa) and the Taitung County Government under then County Magistrate Hsu Ching-yuan. It was supported by three subsequently elected magistrates. Although still standing, Miramar was unable to open due to Supreme Court rulings relating to the legality of its construction. BOT approval In 2003, the Taitung County Government received Central Government permission to employ the BOT model to demolish the change room and camping facilities at Shanyuan/Fudafudak and build a ‘theme restaurant’ and new change-room facilities in conjunction with a private partner. This was unusual as BOT schemes are generally reserved for major infrastructure projects such as subway systems and toll roads. At the time, Hsu Ching-yuan was three years into his first ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Huang
Justin Huang (; born 6 November 1959) is a Taiwanese politician. Like his father Huang Ching-fong, Justin Huang joined the Kuomintang. He was a member of the National Assembly from 1996 to 2000. Huang was first elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2001. He served two full terms on the Legislative Yuan, and was reelected to a third in 2008. Huang stepped as a legislator in 2009 to run for Taitung County Magistrate. After two terms as county magistrate, Huang left office in 2018. Education Huang obtained his bachelor's degree from the Department of International Trade of National Chengchi University. In 1981 he left Taiwan to study at Santa Clara University in the United States, where he completed a Master of Business Administration. National Assembly On 23 March 1996, Huang ran for the 1996 Republic of China National Assembly election for Taitung County Constituency in which he and two other Kuomintang (KMT) candidates won and took office on 20 May 1996. Legislative Yuan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rao Ching-ling
Rao Ching-ling (; born 23 November 1969) is a Taiwanese politician. Education Rao obtained her doctoral degree from National Taiwan Normal University in political science. Political career Rao was elected to the Taitung County Council after winning the local election on 3 December 2005, making her the youngest councilor to be elected at the age of 36. In 2010, she was elected as the speaker of the county council. While serving on the county council, Rao explored bids for higher office, contesting Kuang Li-chen for the Taitung magistracy in 2009, and a seat on the Legislative Yuan in 2012. In 2016, Rao was appointed a deputy secretary-general of the Kuomintang, under chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu. 2018 Taitung County magistrate election Rao defeated Liao Kuo-tung in a Kuomintang primary and subsequently received her party's nomination to contest the Taitung magistracy in 2018. She faced Democratic Progressive Party challenger Liu Chao-hao and three independent candidates, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Births
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuomintang Politicians In Taiwan
The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Taiwan after 1949. It was the sole party in China during the Republican Era from 1928 to 1949, when most of the Chinese mainland was under its control. The party retreated from the mainland to Taiwan on 7 December 1949, following its defeat in the Chinese Civil War. Chiang Kai-shek declared martial law and retained its authoritarian rule over Taiwan under the '' Dang Guo'' system until democratic reforms were enacted in the 1980s and full democratization in the 1990s. In Taiwanese politics, the KMT is the dominant party in the Pan-Blue Coalition and primarily competes with the rival Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). It is currently the largest opposition party in the Legislative Yuan. The current chairman is Eric Chu. The party originate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magistrates Of Taitung County
The magistrate of Taitung is the chief executive of the government of Taitung County. This list includes directly elected magistrates of the county. The incumbent Magistrate is Rao Ching-ling of Kuomintang since 25 December 2018. Directly elected County Magistrates Timeline See also * Taitung County Government The Taitung County Government () is the local government of Taitung County, Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacif ... References External links Magistrates - Taitung County Government {{The current heads of the local government in ROC (Taiwan) Lists of magistrates of places in Taiwan, Taitung County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwanese Politicians Convicted Of Corruption
Taiwanese may refer to: * Taiwanese language, another name for Taiwanese Hokkien * Something from or related to Taiwan (Formosa) * Taiwanese aborigines, the indigenous people of Taiwan * Han Taiwanese, the Han people of Taiwan * Taiwanese people, residents of Taiwan or people of Taiwanese descent * Taiwanese language (other) * Taiwanese culture * Taiwanese cuisine * Taiwanese identity Taiwanese people may be generally considered the people of Taiwan who share a common culture, ancestry and speak Taiwanese Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka or indigenous Taiwanese languages as a mother tongue. Taiwanese people may also refer to the i ... See also * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
