Taiwan Post may regain old name
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) president-elect Ma Ying-jeou assumes office in May, company sources said yesterday.
The KMT never agreed to the company’s name change, which it viewed as part of a campaign by the outgoing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration.
Responding to a KMT legislator’s question at the Legislative Yuan yesterday, Premier Chang Chun-hsiung said the issue would be handled using the “legal procedures” by which the company’s name was changed.
On Feb. 12 last year, Chunghwa Post Co was formally renamed Taiwan Post, after the board of the company approved the move and the Executive Yuan exercised an administrative order to implement the change.
At that time, the DPP administration conducted a series of name changes to state-owned enterprises that carried the words “China” or “Chinese” in a bid to underscore that Taiwan’s distinct national identity was separate from China.
The name change was opposed by the company’s workers’ union, as well as pan-blue legislators who accused the Executive Yuan of infringing on legislative approval.
So far, the KMT-controlled Legislative Yuan has not passed the bill that would legalize the name change.
The Chunghwa Postal Workers’ Union is expected to put forward a proposal to revert to the firm’s previous name at a company board meeting that is scheduled for June.
State-owned Taiwan Post Co might switch back to its old name “Chunghwa Post” after Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) president-elect Ma Ying-jeou assumes office in May, company sources said yesterday.
The KMT never agreed to the company’s name change, which it viewed as part of a campaign by the outgoing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration.
Ma, who won the presidential election by a decisive margin last Saturday, is scheduled to be inaugurated on May 20.
Responding to a KMT legislator’s question at the Legislative Yuan yesterday, Premier Chang Chun-hsiung said the issue would be handled using the “legal procedures” by which the company’s name was changed.
On Feb. 12 last year, Chunghwa Post Co was formally renamed Taiwan Post, after the board of the company approved the move and the Executive Yuan exercised an administrative order to implement the change.
At that time, the DPP administration conducted a series of name changes to state-owned enterprises that carried the words “China” or “Chinese” in a bid to underscore that Taiwan’s distinct national identity was separate from China.
“Chunghwa” means “China” in Chinese.
The name change was opposed by the company’s workers’ union, as well as pan-blue legislators who accused the Executive Yuan of infringing on legislative approval.
So far, the KMT-controlled Legislative Yuan has not passed the bill that would legalize the name change.
The Chunghwa Postal Workers’ Union is expected to put forward a proposal to revert to the firm’s previous name at a company board meeting that is scheduled for June.
