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05, 2012 - Page 8　News List  KMT assets put lie to ‘clean’ image
By Yang Hsien-hung 楊憲宏  When the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)
government “relocated” to Taiwan 63 years ago in 1949, the party
had no assets in Taiwan. Today, it owns a large amount of land,
property and stocks, earning several billion New Taiwan dollars
from those assets every year. The question is: How many of these
assets were obtained through inappropriate means? There has yet
to be an investigation into this.  On Thursday, the Cabinet
approved a draft political party act, which will be submitted to
the legislature for review. This is an attempt by the KMT to
legitimize its assets, and an effrontery to the principle of
fairness and justice: What it should be doing is returning these
assets to the public.  President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who also
serves as KMT chairman, seems to be in on this rather
underhanded maneuver. Once again, Ma has showed his “clean”
image for the sham th