Outrage has broken out after online clips began to circulate of a protester against the Harvest Festival in Hualien who was removed by police, despite only silently holding up a sign...
Video of Guangfu Township residents protesting a meeting held by KMT legislative caucus leader Fu Kun-chi attracted a great deal of attention online in late October. This was particularly the case, seeing as Hualien County Council Speaker Chang Chun, a resident of Guangfu, burst into the meeting and kicked Fu’s table...
Political contention over Typhoon Ragasa has already begun in Taiwan. In particular, the typhoon is currently thought to have left fifteen dead, while 34 are still missing...
The KMT claimed 250,000 in attendance at a rally against DPP recalls held yesterday on Ketagalan Boulevard. Aerial photographs do not seem to correspond to this claim, but either way, the pan-Blue camp was out in force against the DPP in what was a de facto campaign rally for the pan-Blue camp. Both the KMT and its smaller ally party, the TPP, were present...
In an unusual exchange in the legislature yesterday, KMT caucus leader Fu Kun-chi lashed out at TSMC’s plans to invest 100 billion USD in the US. This occurred in the course of an exchange between Fu and Premier Cho Jung-tai, who was giving a report to the legislature, and subsequently questioned by legislators...
The detention of a member of Fu Kun-chi’s recent delegation to Hong Kong is likely to reflect badly on the KMT caucus leader, seeing as this took place during one of Fu’s increasingly common trips to China. Fu was traveling with his wife, Hsu Chen-wei, who is the Hualien county magistrate...
Former Nantou county magistrate Lee Chao-ching, a former KMT member, was sentenced on charges totaling 656 years and four months in jail earlier this month. It has been confirmed by the Supreme Court that Lee, who is already in jail, will serve 21 years and two months in prison. Lee is 74 years old, meaning that Lee may spend the rest of his life in prison...
With Chinese residents of Fujian and Shanghai set to be allowed to resume group tours to Taiwan in the near future, it proves a question as to how Chinese and Taiwanese authorities will collaborate on managing such tours...
