Pan Shih-wei Resigns as Labor Minister

 Pan Shih-wei Resigns as Labor Minister

Source: All Taipei Newspapers

July 25, 2014

The Executive Yuan (Cabinet) yesterday confirmed that Labor Minister Pan Shih-wei (潘世偉) had verbally tendered his resignation and that  Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) had accepted it. Deputy Labor Minister Hao Feng-ming (郝鳳鳴) will be acting as Labor Minister.

An article in Wednesday's Next Magazine (壹週刊) insinuated that Pan was having an extramarital affair with Wang Mong-chun (王孟純), his assistant. Both of them, however, stepped forward separately on Wednesday to deny the allegations.

Labor Minister Pan Shih-wei, former Education Minister Chiang Wei-ling (蔣偉寧), and Huang Yu-cheng (黃玉振), former Minister of Hakka Affairs Council, have all recently resigned, so the Premier urgently needs to line up their replacements and a Cabinet reshuffle is imminent. 

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