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In Response to Food Oil Scandal, Chiang Wan-an Calls for Expediting Legislative Elections

The KMT rallied for food safety last weekend, lashing out at the Lai administration over a food oil safety scandal after accusations of cooking oil adulteration by Central Oil Corporation. This would be hitting out at a familiar political issue in Taiwan, one that routinely leads to scandals every decade or so. Indeed, the previous major food scandal affected Ting Hsin and was leveraged to attack the then-ruling Ma administration by the DPP. One notes that food safety scandals can be reliably counted on to galvanize rage in Taiwanese politics...

Civil Society Groups Demonstrate Lack of Progress on Social Housing

Civil society groups demonstrated outside of DPP headquarters late last month, in protest against the Lai administration’s failure to live up to campaign promises to build social housing. In particular, civil society groups criticized the Lai administration for promising to build 130,000 units of social housing during elections, then quietly revising this down to 40,000 units...

Thousands Demonstrate Against KMT Cuts to Defense Spending

Thousands demonstrated on Sunday against the KMT’s cuts to defense spending, which reduced spending from 1.25 trillion NT to 780 billion NT. The main organizer of the demonstration was the Economic Democracy Union, the politically progressive social movement organization that played a key role in the 2014 Sunflower Movement and 2024 Bluebird Movement...