The CECC announced 275 new cases of COVID-19 today. 267 cases were domestic transmission, with 8 imported cases. In line with the continued spread of COVID-19 outside of Taipei and New Taipei, the CECC announced that all areas nationwide would shift to level three status from today onward...
240 new domestic cases and five imported cases of COVID-19 were announced by the Central Epidemic Command Center at its daily press conference today. Schools will be closed nationwide starting tomorrow. Government officials also confirmed news of two deaths due to COVID-19 yesterday, bringing Taiwan's death toll to fourteen in the course of the pandemic ...
At the daily press conference held by the Central Epidemic Command Center, 335 new cases of COVID-19 were announced in Taiwan today. 333 are cases of domestic transmission, while two cases are imported...
The Central Epidemic Command Center, which coordinates Taiwan’s COVID-19 response, announced 207 new cases of COVID-19 today. 206 cases were from domestic transmission, while one case was imported...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has doubled down on comments emphasizing that the Taiwan People’s Party, which he is party chair of, aspires to move beyond the independence versus unification politics that characterize contestation between the pan-Green and pan-Blue camps...
The Taiwan People’s Party, which was formed by Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je in 2019, has been hit with a round of criticism due to the party’s ties with the Greater Taipei Stability Power Alliance...
The annual Autumn Struggle labor demonstration was held yesterday in Taipei. Autumn Struggle is traditionally one of the major labor demonstrations in Taiwan, along with International Workers’ Day on May 1st. Despite the name, it is not unusual for Autumn Struggle to take place during what is actually winter. However, this year’s demonstration saw significant controversy due to the perceived co-optation of the event by the KMT...
With the Tsai administration announcing that Taiwan would be open to imports of ractopamine-treated meat, it is unsurprising that this has led to backlash in Taiwan. The issue is likely to lead to contestation between central and local governments in Taiwan...
It took few by surprise that Chen Chi-mai of the DPP was the winner of the Kaohsiung mayoral by-election today. Chen won by large margins, winning 70% of the vote, and defeating KMT candidate Jane Lee and TPP candidate Wu Yi-jheng. The by-election was the first by-election to replace a mayor who had been recalled from office in Taiwanese history...
Comments by Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je at the TPP's first national congress last week are telling about the current political orientation of the party, as well as the challenges it faces going forward. Ko raised eyebrows by calling for a ‘Silent Revolution” in Taiwanese politics at the party congress, a pointed criticism of the Tsai administration indicative of the party’s pan-Blue leanings. At the same time, Ko did not lean as heavily into pan-Blue rhetoric as much as he did during the TPP’s founding one year ago...
