10.26.05
Poor old Pasuya: Incompetence or a witch-hunt?
The head of the Government Information Office (GIO) Pasuya Yao has had a rough couple of months:
- In late August, it was reported that a fund the GIO had setup to help victims of the December Tsunami had not paid out a single dollar. Several charities which had cooperated with the GIO were in serious financial difficulties because of this.
- On an official trip to the Carribbean, he was reported to have been having late night drinking sessions with an airhostess, midnight frolics on the beach with some nurses, and falling asleep during a press conference by President Chen.
- The premier annual Taiwanese radio and TV award ceremony, the ‘Golden Bell’ awards were thrown into confusion after nominations were released (leaked?), but then recalled by the GIO.
- The GIO took out a full-page advert in many newspapers to attack the proposed pan-Blue NCC law, and defend the DPP proposal. He was heavily criticized for this partisan move.
- When questioned by legislators, he admited he didn’t know his own salary.
No wonder some are now calling him the George Costanza of Taiwanese politics!
Why have all these news stories come out recently? Well, of course, the most obvious answer is that Yao is an incompetent minister with a knack for putting his foot in it. However, it can hardly be coincidence that all these stories have come out after he was responsible for refusing to renew the licenses of several TV channels - thus drawing the ire of Taiwanese media. Freedom of the press means that if you piss off the press, then they will get their revenge. Pasuya Yao must be yearning for the ‘good old days’ of the GIO (otherwise known as the ‘James Soong years’) when anyone critical of the GIO would have been shipped off to Green Island, and their newspaper shut down.
But wait, it gets worse
Just when he thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did:
- The legislature finally managed to pass a bill without bloodshed: The whole purpose of the NCC bill is to disband the GIO, and so put poor old Pasuya out of a job.
- Ten days ago Pasuya Yao signed an information exchange pact with Senegal:
Yao said the GIO has endeavored to push forward international information exchange as a way to expand Taiwan’s diplomatic space and strengthen the nation’s relations with its allies.
The poor guy must have been pleased with that, until he found out what the first bit of information that would be exchanged was: Yesterday Senegal announced it was switching diplomatic ties from Taiwan to China. Sometimes it seems like the whole world is conspiring against you …
snakefighter said,
October 30, 2005 at 7:41 am
Quick, name some other ministers in the Taiwanese gov’t–where do they work? Ministry of Foreign Affairs? Ministry of blahblahblah? 甚麼甚麼部? Now–where does “Minister” Yao work? What’s that? The Government Information OFFICE? 新聞局? Yes, he insists he’s a “minister” in English even though he’s not a 部長– a little promotion via translation.
The View from Taiwan said,
November 1, 2005 at 12:32 am
in Taiwan will report on the story, then “Deep Throat” can always speak to the media outside of Taiwan while shining the light on the new White Terror regime inside Taiwan. The “new white terror regime…” [HOWLS WITH LAUGHTER]. Anyone who thinks theinept Pasuya Yao, head of the GIO, is the hand of a new White Terror regime is, frankly speaking, on crack. Some of us around here are old enough to have been on a White Terror blacklist, and anyone who opens a book can read about, say, the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident, in which 50
Wandering to Tamshui said,
January 22, 2006 at 10:45 pm
let us not grieve the passing of the man who gave himself an aboriginal name, but honor his many feats by revisiting some of his finer moments as GIO Minister over the past few months: Oct. 13, 2005: “P-Yao and his another antic” Oct. 26, 2005:”Poor Old Pasuya: Incompetence or a witch-hunt?” (Jujuflop) Nov. 15, 2005: “GIO Budget slashed” (The View From Taiwan) Nov. 23, 2005: “I was in the pool, Jerry!” Nov. 25, 2005: “The Pasuya show continues” (Jujuflop) Nov. 26, 2005: “Ruffians and heroes need not apply”
Politics from Taiwan » The NCC: The Non-Constitutional Commission said,
August 4, 2006 at 11:57 am
[...] The reason for this mess, is that Taiwan’s political atmosphere makes it virtually impossible to nominate an impartial set of experts on any politically sensitive topic. When the media watchdog job was handled by the GIO, we had the famously idiotic Pasuya Yao - who I wouldn’t trust to regulate a baby’s beauty contest. Yet when the legislature is given the job of coming up with a new body, they’re so obsessed with who will control it that they produce an unconstitutional mess. [...]
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