The KMT faces an internal quandary, with a recent standing committee election having resulted in controversy over vote buying and corruption. KMT chair Eric Chu has vowed to investigate and get to the bottom of any corruption, stating that he will take action within two weeks...
Taiwanese Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung stated during a radio interview with Hit FM this afternoon that plans to purchase five million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had possibly been blocked because of Chinese government interference...
The Central Epidemic Command Center, which coordinates Taiwan’s response to COVID-19, has been increasingly questioned on the timeline for vaccine availability in past weeks...
The question of who will become the KMT’s next party chair remains opaque, with party heavyweights still refraining from throwing their hat into the race...
In surprising fashion, the KMT and DPP may be converging on similar tactics in its choice of political candidates in 2018 elections, at least where Taipei mayoral candidates are concerned. This perhaps illustrates that the DPP and KMT are in many ways caught in the same bind politically at present...
The past victory of opposition forces over the KMT in the nine-in-one elections held last Saturday came as a surprise, with independent candidate Ko Wen-Je triumphing over KMT candidate Sean Lien in vying for the position of Taipei mayor...
In consideration of that what has come to be known as the "Opposition Alliance" has backed independent candidate Ko Wen-Je in this year’s Taipei mayoral election, the overall the behavior of individuals and camps in this year’s election is surprising...
With less than a month left until Taiwan’s “nine-in-one” elections, the stakes of the political game are high. The “nine-in-one” elections come as quite possibly the most significant event for Taiwanese electoral politics outside of presidential elections...
