22 Facts About Tsai Hau

Tsai Hau served three terms on the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2008.

Originally elected as a political independent, Tsai joined the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union in 2004, and represented the Kuomintang in the 2009 Taiwanese local elections.

From 2018 to 2019, Tsai Hau was vice chairman of the Congress Party Alliance.

Tsai Hau was involved in the Taiwanese mass media industry, as a shareholder in the New Taipei Mass Communication company, and as shareholder and member of the board of directors in Eastern Multimedia.

Tsai Hau chaired The Commons Daily, and was executive director of the General Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of China.

Tsai Hau was first elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1998, taking office as a political independent representing Pingtung County.

In May 2000, Tsai Hau co-initiated a signature drive within the Legislative Yuan in support of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma.

Tsai Hau was the convener of the National Non-Party League, and helped reform a caucus for independents, known as the Non-partisan Alliance, during his next term in 2002.

Tsai Hau was one of ten founding members of the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union, established in June 2004, and served the new political party as its legislative whip.

Tsai Hau won reelection to the Legislative Yuan as an NPSU candidate later that year, as did five other incumbent legislators representing the party.

Tsai Hau contested the Pingtung County 1 seat, and lost to Su Chen-ching.

Several of the confrontations took place as Tsai Hau served the Home and Nations legislative committee as a convener.

Tsai Hau was gagged by pan-green affiliated legislators as he tried to adjourn a committee meeting on amendments to the Referendum Act in January 2007, and had to dismiss a March 2007 meeting on absentee voting early due to arguments between lawmakers that began before the meeting could be called to order.

Tsai Hau sought election to the Pingtung County Council in 2009, and served as founding vice chairman of the Congress Party Alliance in 2018.

In November 1999, Tsai Hau, representing the Taiwan Development and Trust Corporation, helped the company buy property in Yangmei, Taoyuan, owned by the Far Eastern Silo and Shipping Company.

The Taiwan High Court ruled in May 2007 that Tsai Hau had perpetrated a breach of trust and sentenced him to one year of imprisonment.

In March 2008, the Apple Daily reported that Tsai Hau was one of thirteen people to have received a sum of money from Wang You-theng, Gary Wang's father.

In February 2009, Tsai Hau was called as a witness for a hearing in which the Taipei District Court decided to grant Gary Wang bail.

Tsai Hau was indicted in March 2008 for violating the National Security Law, the Immigration Law, and Offenses of Concealment of Offenders and Destruction of Evidence in aiding convicted banker Wang Hsuan-jen's move to China.

Tsai Hau was sentenced by the Taiwan High Court in June 2010 to six months imprisonment or a fine of NT$180,000.

In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled that Tsai Hau was guilty of vote buying during his 2008 legislative campaign.

Tsai Hau was sentenced to four years imprisonment and had his civil rights suspended for four years.