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DESCRIPTION:Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's first female candidate for president and the former 
 chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan, will be visiting 
 San Francisco Bay Area as part of her post-election appreciation tour. Tsai 
 will be at Fremont Marriott Hotel of Silicon Valley on October 28, 2012 
 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm. She will be delivering a speech on the current state 
 of political affairs in Taiwan and offer her sincere appreciation to her 
 supporters. Everyone is welcome to attend. Tickets are $50 for center front 
 and $10 for general admission. Tickets are available online at 
 http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4600887378\n \n \n \nTsai Ing-Wen, Ph.D. is 
 the former chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taiwan. 
 Studying in Taiwan, the U.S and the U.K. Tsai earned an LL.B. from National 
 Taiwan University, an LL.M. from Cornell University Law School and a PhD 
 from the London School of Economics. Dr. Tsai held professorial positions 
 at several universities upon returning from her study abroad in 1984. 
 Starting 1993, she was appointed to a series of governmental positions by 
 the then-ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and was one of the chief drafters of the 
 Special state-to-state relations doctrine of President Lee Teng-hui.\n 
 \nAfter DPP President Chen Shui-bian took office in 2000, Tsai was invited 
 to serve as Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council throughout Chen's 
 first term as a non-partisan. She became a DPP member in 2004 and served 
 briefly as a DPP-listed non-constituency member of the Legislative Yuan. 
 From there, she was appointed Vice Premier under Premier Su Tseng-chang 
 until the cabinet's mass resignation in 2007. She was elected and assumed 
 DPP chairpersonship in 2008, following her party's defeat in the 2008 
 presidential election. She resigned as chairperson after losing her 2012 
 presidential election bid.\n \nTsai ran for New Taipei City mayorship in 
 the November 2010 municipal elections but was defeated by another former 
 Vice Premier Eric Chu (KMT). In April 2011, Tsai became the first female 
 presidential candidate in the history of the Republic of China after 
 defeating her former superior, Su Tseng-chang, in the DPP's primary by a 
 slight margin. She was defeated by President Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang 
 in the 5th direct presidential election in 2012.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/15/18723830.php
SUMMARY:Speech by Tsai Ing-Wen, former chairwoman of Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan
LOCATION:Fremont Marriott Hotel of Silicon Valley\n 46100 Landing Parkway \nFremont, 
 CA 94538
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/15/18723830.php
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