Speculation is on the rise regarding who the KMT intends to field for its next presidential candidate. All indications are that there will be significant in-fighting in the KMT on this matter...
The offices of TPP legislator Ann Kao, who is the mayor-elect of Hsinchu, were searched by prosecutors yesterday. Kao and other witnesses were also questioned by prosecutors...
Earlier this month, on November 3rd, President Tsai Ing-wen called for an end to “black gold” politics in an appeal to voters to place their votes for the DPP’s county magistrate candidates in Yilan, Miaoli, and Nantou. This is significant, in that this reflects that the DPP has chosen an angle of attack that will focus on the KMT over issues of corruption...
The future of the TPP remains unclear in November elections. Namely, the elections will prove an important testing ground for the party as to its strength, with the TPP having won five seats in the legislature to overtake the NPP in the 2020 elections...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je held the last Taipei-Shanghai forum of his mayoral administration earlier this week. Namely, Ko is at the end of his second term as Taipei mayor, and cannot run for another. Due to the effects of COVID-19 on global travel, Ko did not attend in person, as the event was held virtually for the third year in a row...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has stirred up controversy after recent comments calling for the construction of a bridge between Kinmen and Xiamen. Kinmen is the closest part of Taiwan to China, given that it is only ten kilometers away from Xiamen, and the two are accessible by ferry from each other...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je and his administration have come under fire with accusations that PTT accounts run by Taipei city government employees are used as part of a “cyber-army” aimed at improving Ko’s public image. PTT is an Internet forum popularly used in Taiwan, sometimes compared to Reddit in other parts of the world. The criticisms of Ko, as advanced by pan-Green politicians, broke out into controversy after a report by the Taipei city government...
Cremations for individuals that recently died of COVID-19 has become the latest issue that is contested between pan-Blue local governments and the central government...
Contestation local governments controlled by the pan-Blue camp and the central government regarding COVID-19 continues. The latest issue to be contested is that of temporary vaccination stations set up by the central government to boost vaccination among children...
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 ...
