DistantNews
Support us
🇹🇼 Taiwan /Disasters & Emergencies

Sheltered workshop stunned by ‘one call, eight-word cold reply’ as KMT responds

From Liberty Times · () Chinese

Translated from Chinese and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

News Official statement Outcome reported
  • The Kuomintang said it completed orders for 9,780 Mid-Autumn Festival gift boxes from 20 sheltered workshops after 37 suppliers lost orders from the Presidential Office.
  • A Pingtung workshop said the party had asked about 300 boxes but had not followed up with an order.
  • Party officials said the workshop was not among the 37 affected suppliers, but agreed to expand the purchase after the communication was clarified.

The Pingtung sheltered workshop Manman Hengchun said it received an inquiry from the Kuomintang about 300 Mid-Autumn Festival gift boxes, then waited in vain for the order. The complaint came after Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wen pledged to take over orders canceled by the Presidential Office.

Kuomintang officials said the party had contacted the workshop, but found that it was not one of the 37 sheltered workshops named by the Presidential Office as having lost orders. They described the contact as a misunderstanding and said the party was nevertheless willing to add the purchase to broaden its support.

The party said Cheng had personally undertaken to buy the canceled mooncake orders. Of the 37 workshops, 20 could still supply the products, totaling 9,780 boxes worth about NT$4.02 million. The orders have now been completed, and local party workers will distribute the boxes to disadvantaged families around Taiwan for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Party officials said Taiwan has nearly 170 sheltered workshops. Although the Kuomintang could not place orders with all of them this time, they said it would continue buying products from sheltered workshops to support disadvantaged groups.

Please let political figures make their statements clear.

· Manman Hengchun sheltered workshopThe Pingtung workshop called for clarification after saying it had not received the discussed order.
About this summary

Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

More Stories

From Our Blog