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Ma Ying-jeou (; POJ: Má Eng-kiú; born July 13, 1950) (also formerly used Mark Ma as his English name though he no longer uses this name) is the incumbent President of the Republic of China. He formerly served as Justice Minister from 1993 to 1996, Mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006, and Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 2005 to 2007.
Ma was elected Mayor of Taipei in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. He was elected Chairman of the Kuomintang by party members on July 16, 2005. He announced his resignation on February 13, 2007 after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of misuse of mayoral funds during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei. Ma subsequently won the presidency in the ROC presidential election of 2008. He was sworn into office on 20 May 2008.
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China offers risky drip line to recession-hit Taiwan
...CHINESE MONEY Fresh evidence of China's keenness to invest in Taiwan has appeared almost daily since Beijing-friendly Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou took office in May 2008 and signed trade deals to open up the tourism and transport...
President of Taiwan shifts isle stopover to weekend
...are scheduled be greeted by Gov. Linda Lingle tomorrow night at Honolulu Airport. Ma is on his way back to Taiwan from Central America, where he attended Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli's inauguration Wednesday. His trip --...
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Videos
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Ma Ying-jeou TalkAsia interview (02-2007) Part 1/3
First airing on Saturday, February 3, 2007, this TalkAsia interview with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Ma Ying-jeou had host Anjali Rao fluffing Ma, pushing his "Mr. Clean" propaganda, and letting him show himself generally talking like a fool with things like (barely a parody-phrase) "I couldn't possibly be guilty of anything because I donated blood a whole bunch of times, and I also donated to charity a lot of that money that rightfully belongs to the taxpayers ot Taiwan." He ...
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FTV interviews Ma Ying-jeou, Part 1 of about 8
On the night of December 9, 2008, Taiwan's Formosa Television (FTV/民視) interviewed Taiwan's president, Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九). Grimace as he struggles to greet the audience using Taiwanese. Squirm in your seat as he complains about the interviewer judging him based upon what happened after he took office instead of talking about the good stuff that happened in the last few months of his predecessor Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) term. Witness Mr. Ma smile as he talks about quarter after quarter ...