According to Taiwan's United Daily News, "The Power of the Times" members of the Taipei City MPs and candidates revealed on the 1st that the doctoral thesis of the "Institute of Urban Planning" of Taipei University, Tsai Shiying, the candidate for Keelung mayor of the Democratic Progressive Party, involved plagiarism. Tsai Shiying held a press conference today (2nd) to admit that the references were missed. Taipei University confirmed at noon today that it had received a letter of report on the paper and the review process will be initiated in the future.
Cai Shiying's data picture (Picture source: China Times News Network)
reported that Cai Shiying claimed at a press conference this morning that some references were indeed missed, but not as many as 25 copies, and most of the original materials were listed.
Taipei University confirmed at noon today that it had received the paper report registered mail . After receiving the report as required, it will form an audit committee to conduct the paper investigation, and the committee will complete the review within 3 months. However, as for who the whistleblower is, it must be kept confidential according to the school regulations.
Recently, the "paper gate" on the island continued. After Lin Zhijian, a former candidate for Taoyuan mayor of the DPP, retired from the election for suspected plagiarism of the paper, Cai Shiying was also exposed to be suspected of plagiarism of her doctoral thesis. Taiwanese media said that recently, some people reported that Tsai Shiying was suspected of plagiarizing the paper. After page-by-page comparison, they found that there were three major problems with the paper, namely, plagiarizing 30 documents, of which 25 of which were not included in the reference documents. The conclusion was as high as 33%, and the content was even copied by Wikipedia and Baidu Encyclopedia.
Keelung City Council candidate Jiang Xinyi said: "As the candidate for the mayor of Keelung , Tsai Shiying has serious flaws in academic ethics and integrity. How can this make Keelung people believe that he can lead Keelung forward?" Regarding the further essay scandal within the Democratic Progressive Party, some netizens left messages under relevant news, saying, "Everyone knows whether the Democratic Progressive Party has real talents and knowledge", "It is only lawless, which makes people sigh."
column editor: Gu Wanquan Text editor: Fang Ying Title picture source: Visual China Picture editor: Su Wei
Source: Author: Global Network Yin Yanhui
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