DPP's Taoyuan mayoral candidate pulls out over thesis plagiarism

The ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) candidate for Taoyuan mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) has withdrawn his candidacy after having been found to have plagiarized another person's work in his master's degree thesis.

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