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Chinese music awards
performances in Taipei approved
Staff writer, with CNA
Members of the Taiwan Solidarity
Union protest outside the National Immigration Agency in Taipei yesterday
against the holding of a Chinese pop chart show in Taipei, which they say would
degrade the nation's sovereignty.
Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times
An inter-agency meeting gave the go-ahead
yesterday for a controversial China-based music event to be held in Taiwan,
although it will be limited to performances only, with no award ceremony
permitted, according to the National Immigration Agency (NIA).
After a third round of deliberations by officials from 26 government agencies,
the event co-organizer, the Taipei Artist Agency Association, was told to revise
the name and the content of the program, the NIA said.
In addition, the Chinese Music Chart Awards (¤¤°êºq¦±±Æ¦æº]), originally planned to
take place in Taiwan to mark its 20th anniversary, must avoid all language
related to ¡§the 20th anniversary¡¨ and can only promote the Taipei event as a
concert.
At least one Taiwanese must be employed as a host of the event that is scheduled
to take place at the Taipei Arena on Dec. 29. The introduction of the geographic
areas included in the production will have to be based on the legal terms used
by Taiwan ¡X the Taiwan Area, the Mainland Area, Hong Kong and Macau, the NIA
said.
The NIA, the Ministry of Culture and the Mainland Affairs Council are to send
staff to the rehearsals and to the event itself to make sure that no regulations
are violated.
Organizers of the Chinese Music Chart Awards, a famous Mandarin pop music awards
in China, announced in Beijing on Nov. 30 that the 2012 award presentation
ceremony would be held in Taipei to mark the chart¡¦s 20th anniversary.
The announcement drew the ire of opposition parties, which said that if the
event were to take place in Taipei, it would be a denigration of the Republic of
China¡¦s sovereign status because the 16 categories of the awards are divided
into two groups ¡X China and Hong Kong/Taiwan.
Meanwhile, the Taiwan Solidarity Union protested outside the NIA yesterday.
TSU official Hsiao Kuan-yu (¿½³eÅA) said that a green light should not be granted
under any circumstances and demanded that the NIA reject the application.
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