Yang Chung-tse

Yang Chung-tse is a Taiwanese politician.

Education Yang holds a master of business administration from Tunghai University. and removed from office in 2003.

During his legislative term, Yang drew media attention for missing several sessions of the Legislative Yuan, including a vote of no confidence against President Chen Shui-bian, and, in particular, did not attend any committee-level meetings throughout the fourth session of the Sixth Legislative Yuan. As a legislator, he supported initiatives for animal rights and welfare, and co-sponsored an online referendum to select a Taiwanese national bird.

Yang ran as an independent candidate for Changhua County's third district in the 2008 legislative election, but finished behind and .

Legal judgments Yang had been removed from political office in Xihu in 2003, after being sentenced to fourteen years in prison during the first trial of a bribery case against him. In May 2012, an appeal was heard by the Taichung branch of the Taiwan High Court, and his prison sentence was reduced to thirteen years. The Supreme Court ruled on the case in September 2018, further reducing Yang's sentence to nine years.