Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Johnny Chiang, center, chairs a meeting of the party’s Central Standing Committee at the KMT’s headquarters in Taipei yesterday. “We urge Tsai Ing-wen, the current president, not to contradict last year’s Tsai Ing-wen, the presidential candidate,” he said. In other news, the British Office Taipei is encouraging Taiwanese to purchase British pork products, which do not contain ractopamine because the UK has banned it. Since allowing British pork into the country two years ago, Taiwan has imported more than ￡10 million (US$13 million) of the products, the office wrote on Facebook yesterday. The event sought to help local supermarket retailers and hotel caterers appreciate the flavor of British pork products in various cuisines, it added.

Source: Taipei Times September 16, 2020 15:56 UTC