DPP defends Taoyuan mayoral candidate accused of plagiarism

The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Tuesday said that it believes former Hsinchu mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅), who is currently the party's candidate in the Taoyuan mayoral race in November, did not plagiarize his master's thesis when he was enrolled at National Taiwan University (NTU), despite a determination by an academic ethics review committee Tuesday that he did.

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