Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) confirmed yesterday that he was considering a management reshuffle for state-run enterprises.
Wu said he planned to use the Lunar New Year holiday to think about the planned reshuffle at state-run companies, as well as changes in the Cabinet. He did not elaborate.
Wu made the remark on his way to inspect police officers on duty during the Lunar New Year holiday.
He was responding to a report by the Chinese-language United Daily News yesterday that quoted an unnamed high-ranking politician as saying that the government would review the performance of state-run enterprises, including CPC Corp, Taiwan, which caused an uproar recently for overcharging consumers for air pollution fees and other types of fees.
A reshuffle would also involve changes in the Cabinet, following the replacement of Government Information Office (GIO) Minister Su Jun-pin (蘇俊賓), the paper quoted the official as saying.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Secretary-General King Pu-tsung (金溥聰) said on Friday that Su would formally take over as KMT spokesman on Feb. 24, while KMT Cultural and Communication Committee head Lee Chien-jung (李建榮) would take a position at the Straits Exchange Foundation.
Lawyer and TV anchor Hsieh Zhen-wu (謝震武) has been short-listed to head the GIO, the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times' sister newspaper) reported yesterday.
The premier said he was acquainted with Hsieh, but did not confirm when asked whether he would appoint Hsieh as Su's successor.
“I have many names in mind. Some of them are afraid of working for the government because they have to follow many requirements,” Wu said.
Asked to comment on King’s suggestion that Vice Premier Eric Chu (朱立倫) run for mayor of the to be established Sinbei City on behalf of the party in the year-end special municipality elections, Wu said this would only happen if the person in question were willing to accept the nomination.
“But so far none of this has happened,” Wu said.
The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) and Chunghwa Telecom yesterday confirmed that an international undersea cable near Keelung Harbor had been cut by a Chinese ship, the Shunxin-39, a freighter registered in Cameroon. Chunghwa Telecom said the cable had its own backup equipment, and the incident would not affect telecommunications within Taiwan. The CGA said it dispatched a ship under its first fleet after receiving word of the incident and located the Shunxin-39 7 nautical miles (13km) north of Yehliu (野柳) at about 4:40pm on Friday. The CGA demanded that the Shunxin-39 return to seas closer to Keelung Harbor for investigation over the
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The Taipei City Government yesterday said contractors organizing its New Year’s Eve celebrations would be held responsible after a jumbo screen played a Beijing-ran television channel near the event’s end. An image showing China Central Television (CCTV) Channel 3 being displayed was posted on the social media platform Threads, sparking an outcry on the Internet over Beijing’s alleged political infiltration of the municipal government. A Taipei Department of Information and Tourism spokesman said event workers had made a “grave mistake” and that the Television Broadcasts Satellite (TVBS) group had the contract to operate the screens. The city would apply contractual penalties on TVBS
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