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 Hsinchu mayoral policy presentation took place on November 21st. The following article will focus on the three primary candidates, DPP candidate and former deputy mayor Shen Hui-hung, legislator Ann Kao of the TPP, and Hsinchu city councilor Lin Ken-jeng of the KMT. The debate took the form of thirty-minute speeches by each of the candidates, though candidates did use the opportunity to criticize each other...
The Taoyuan mayoral debate took place earlier this week. The debate pitted the four major candidates–legislator Cheng Yun-peng of the DPP, former DPP legislator Cheng Pao-ching, legislator Lai Hsiang-ling of the TPP, and Simon Chang of the KMT–against each other...
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...
The Taipei mayoral debate, which was held on Saturday, saw the three major candidates exchange barbs. The three candidates represented in the debate were legislator Chiang Wan-an of the KMT, deputy mayor Huang Shan-shan of the TPP, and former Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung of the DPP...
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...
