Ko Wen-je's TPP has again found itself embroiled in scandal, this time over a performance at a campaign event that involved dancers dressed as female flight attendants. The campaign event was for Chang Chi-hao, a TPP legislative candidate running in the Daan-Wenshan area in Taipei...
Demonstrators protested on Ketagalan Boulevard today for a rally called by former NPP chair Huang Kuo-Chang and influential streamer and bodybuilder Holger Chen. The rally drew tens of thousands, despite intense heat in the afternoon, and can be seen as the first major campaign rally of the 2024 election season. The rally began at 2 PM...
Recent statements by former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je, currently the presidential candidate of the TPP, allege political favoritism in that Ko was not allowed to hold a fundraising concert at the Taipei Music Center...
Former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je, who is running as the TPP’s presidential candidate in the 2024 elections, continues to maintain an ambiguous cross-strait stance...
A recent report in the United Daily News claimed that the US had requested Taiwan to develop bioweapons. The report cited what were reported as the minutes of a secret meeting on June 23rd...
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...
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...
Pan-blue media personality Jaw Shaw-kung, one of the leading figures of the “Fighting Blues” within the KMT, recently took a strong stance against the Tsai administration’s energy transition policy. Jaw criticized the Tsai administration as overly reliant on LNG terminals and instead called for the extension of Reactor No. 2 and Reactor No. 3’s operational lifetimes, as well as the restart of the controversial Lungmen Reactor No. 4. Jaw’s comments are worth examining for how this sheds light upon the pan-Blue camp’s framing of Taiwan’s current energy issues...
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...
