tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post1001932480104916302..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Friday Odds and EndsMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-887250256275231792011-12-11T22:38:35.785+08:002011-12-11T22:38:35.785+08:00Christine Chow worked at HSBC? When? I thought she...Christine Chow worked at HSBC? When? I thought she worked at the KMT-controlled Mega International.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-46521639694313734912011-12-10T11:13:44.824+08:002011-12-10T11:13:44.824+08:00HTC is peopled with former Microsoft folks, so isn...HTC is peopled with former Microsoft folks, so isn't this really a battle of the old giants?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-55522473214794448042011-12-10T06:03:16.352+08:002011-12-10T06:03:16.352+08:00The so-called "Taiwan Gallup Market Research&...The so-called "Taiwan Gallup Market Research" was founded and is being run by a KMT old-timer Timothy Ting (丁庭宇), who is currently also <a href="http://www2.cna.com.tw/ShowNews/Detail.aspx?pNewsID=201108160169&pType0=aALL" rel="nofollow">jobbing as a Taipei City Deputy Mayor</a>.<br /><br />This illegal behavior has been going on for many years. "Taiwan Gallup" (often, "Taiwan" is dropped in their self-identification within Taiwan) generally has been acting like a TVBS in the polling sphere.<br /><br />Another instance is the so-called "ROC Red Cross", which <a href="http://blog.kaishao.idv.tw/?p=2899" rel="nofollow">is not at all affiliated with International Red Cross</a>. The so-called "ROC Red Corss" is run by KMTers and is a place where KMT politicians often seek political "refuge" after leaving a post often due to political troubles, such as<br /><br />1. <a href="www.redcross.org.tw/RedCross/upload/main/Relation%20Info/lbhau/TVBS0610.htm" rel="nofollow">Hau Lung-pin (after leaving his post in the then DDP government; the linked piece is a TVBS propaganda for him)</a>, <br /><br />2. <a href="http://web.redcross.org.tw/news_001.aspx?pid=P_00000173&insid=6" rel="nofollow">Wang Ching-feng (immediately after being sacked from the post of minister of justice in 2010)</a><br /><br />3. <a href="http://www.redcross.org.tw/RedCross/page/pagetypeA1_sub.jsp?groupid=106&webno=1&pageno=410&typeno=1&content=90" rel="nofollow"> the wife of Ma Ying-jeou (after resigning from her HSBC post, an act necessitated by Ma's inauguration three weeks earlier.) </a><br /><br />And many more.<br /><br />Basically, it acts as a career buffer for KMTers. The director (since 2000) Chen Chang-wen, a KMT lawyer closely associated with Ma Ying-jeou, is famous for inventing the so-called "Reservoir Thesis", which argues that Ma's private bank account is associated with his Taipei city treasury account like two linked reservoirs; thus, he argued (successfully) that Ma was "innocent" in being confused about how the money flew between the two accounts.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cross_Society_of_the_Republic_of_China" rel="nofollow">Its Wkipedia entry</a> contains a section narrating it meeting the conditions to be recognized except for "Taiwan not being a signatory power to the Geneva Conventions" (yes, here, they use "Taiwan"; "ROC" is momentarily forgotten.) This is a very KMT way of admitting that they are not part of IRC and have no communication with IRC.<br /><br />The most alarming aspect regarding "ROC Red Cross" is its uses, non-uses (retention) and reassigned uses of donation as well as its dubious administration cost. Bascially, when you donate money you don't know where, how much and when your money goes. They may retain it for a few years and give out some of it for a cause not of your designation and not within the timeframe of your desire, at their own discretion. See <a href="http://wildkidblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_705.html" rel="nofollow">this web page (scroll down to read the text)</a> for a glimpse.SYnoreply@blogger.com