TAIWAN’S LEGISLATIVE SPEAKER OUSTED IN POLITICAL SCANDAL

September 13, 2013

Just over a month after the death of a conscripted Army recruit caused protests and political upheaval in Taiwan, another scandal is threatening to cause a rift in the Chinese Nationalist Party (also known as the Kuomintang or KMT). On September 10, a KMT disciplinary committee decided to strip Wang Jin-pyng, the long-time speaker of Taiwan