Today was the last day for candidates to register for the presidential election, with the deadline being 5:30 PM. After yesterday’s drama, involving a televised public spat between all of the major pan-Blue presidential candidates, each candidate seemed set to field a separate run, with hopes of a joint ticket scuppered...
The already convoluted saga of a prospective alliance between the TPP and KMT took a turn for the bizarre today. This took the form of a press conference that involved all of the pan-Blue presidential candidates–Hou You-yi of the KMT, Ko Wen-je of the TPP, and independent candidate Terry Gou–openly sparring with each other. Former president Ma Ying-jeou and KMT party chair Eric Chu were also present. The deadline for candidates to register for president is 5:30 PM tomorrow...
Members of the Bahuan community, who are Bunun Indigenous, demonstrated outside of National Taiwan University earlier this week. The demonstration led to some clashes with police, with a large number of police deployed for a relatively small number of protestors...
Despite much expectation that the joint ticket between the TPP and KMT would be announced this morning, with it announced who would be the presidential candidate between TPP chair and presidential candidate Ko Wen-je and KMT candidate Han Kuo-yu at aa press conference scheduled for 10 AM, Ko Wen-je has now pulled out of the alliance. That being said, Ko stated that talks will continue between the two parties...
After weeks of speculation, the TPP and KMT agreed to a joint presidential ticket today. This announcement took place after a meeting today between TPP presidential candidate and chair Ko Wen-je, KMT chair Eric Chu, KMT presidential candidate Hou You-yi, and former president Ma Ying-jeou...
Ahead of elections, China has threatened to end the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement that dates from the time of the Ma administration. In particular, China claims that Taiwan is currently violating the terms of the agreement under the Tsai administration by continuing to maintain trade barriers on some Chinese goods, while also alleging that the Tsai administration has increased the number of Chinese goods blocked from entering Taiwan...
TSMC announced late last month that it would no longer be considering Longtan as a possible location for fab construction. This took place after the company–the major Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing giant–previously considered building facilities in the Longtan Science Park...
The KMT continues to politicize the issue of vaccines in Taiwan, lashing out at the use of Medigen flu vaccines and framing this as the Tsai administration favoring the vaccine developer. This occurs even as Medigen is just one of a number of brands that will be used domestically...
Foxconn has seen inspections by Chinese authorities in past days over taxes in Guangdong and Jiangsu, while inspected over land use in Henan and Hubei...