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TAIPEI, Dec 26 (AP): Four executives have resigned from two Taiwanese television stations to show support for a government plan to relinquish its control of the media, as the government failed to meet its Monday deadline for the reforms.
The government had planned to sell its 47 per cent of shares in Taiwan Television and 75 per cent in Chinese Television by Monday, as part of President Chen Shui-bian's 2000 election pledge to end state control of news media.
But the shares have yet to go on sale.
The four government-appointed executives are: Chiang Hsia, president, and Chou Rong-sheng, chairman, of Chinese Television System; and Chairman Lai Kuo-chou and President Cheng You of Taiwan Television Enterprise.
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