5,108 confirmed cases, 113 imported cases, and zero deaths were reported by the Central Epidemic Command Center at its daily COVID-19 press conference today. 106 of the imported cases were found on arrival, while seven were found while in quarantine...
With KMT party primaries underway, all indications are that internal divides within the party continue to be strong. Namely, current KMT chair Eric Chu seems to be increasingly embattled, as facing challenges from within the party. This may be the result of the KMT’s current system in which the KMT chair cannot simultaneously serve as the party’s presidential candidate. But, despite that this is the case, it is often thought that Chu in fact harbors presidential ambitions, having served the KMT’s 2016 presidential candidate after he was swapped in to replace Hung Hsiu-chu...
Mirror Media's efforts to establish a television network have faced continual issues in the past months. Mirror Media currently hopes to establish a television network called Mirror News...
Yilan county magistrate Lin Zi-miao has come under further scrutiny for corruption charges, due to checks worth over 100 million NT received by Lin or her family members from former KMT legislator Yang Chi-hsiung...
Cannabis decriminalization advocacy group Green Sensation 2.0 demonstrated over the weekend at Liberty Plaza and outside the Ministry of Justice on Saturday, April 16th...
On International Labor Day on May 1st, also known as May Day in other parts of the world, more than 12,000 Taiwan Railways Administration workers will take a day off in order to protest attempts by management to corporatize. The Taiwan Railways Administration is currently run as a part of government...
Taiwan reported 1,209 domestic cases of COVID-19 today. Apart from being the highest number of cases reported to date, this is also the first time that Taiwan has broken 1,000 daily domestic cases. Otherwise, 75 imported cases were 68 of which were found while on arrival, while 7 were found while in quarantine. Zero deaths were reported...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je, who is the founder and chair of the Taiwan People’s Party, has found himself in a spat with other TPP politicians after calling party member Lin Shu-hui a “dog” that needed to be “disciplined.” Lin is the director of TPP legislator Lai Hsiang-ling’s office and the chair of the TPP’s central review committee ...
The Central Epidemic Command Center reported 551 domestic cases, 112 imported cases, and zero deaths today. 551 domestic cases is the highest number of daily cases recorded in Taiwan since the start of the pandemic, though daily case counts from last year were subject to revision because of delays in processing backlogged COVID-19 test results...
