Taipei, Dec. 15 (CNA) Representatives of the cultural sector were scheduled to question the three presidential candidates in a face-to-face meeting Thursday, the first such dialogue in Taiwan between presidential candidates and the cultural sector, according to the Preparatory Institute of the Foundation of the Inaugural Year for Culture, which is organizing the meeting. "We hope the event will target crucial cultural policies for good communication and open up a long-term, transparent and private sector participation in a monitoring platform and mechanism for charting the course of the nation's cultural policies," the foundation said. According to the schedule, each of the three presidential candidates will be given one hour, with Tsai Ing-wen of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party speaking first, followed by James Soong of the People First Party, and President Ma Ying-jeou of the ruling Kuomintang. The trio will each have 20 minutes to elaborate on their cultural policies and will then answer questions from 12 cultural representatives. The meeting will be aired live on the Public Television Service. The questions posed could include the nation's stance and values on cultural and economic development, the dearth of cultural and art exhibition halls, the brain drain of cultural talent, more positive exchanges of Taiwanese culture with world culture, and how the candidates plan to prevent the nation's cultural and artistic resources from being dominated by an oligarchy. (By Sabine Cheng and Lilian Wu)
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