Labor groups want next year’s minimum monthly wage raised to NT$31,792, citing rising living costs in Kaohsiung and elsewhere.

A councilor wants tougher action against repeat misuse of 119 after citing nearly 5,900 calls made “without cause” last year and no fines.

Kaohsiung environmental authorities have fined and referred for prosecution a couple and 44 waste clearance companies involved in illegally dumping nearly 14,000 tons of scrap wood on agricultural land in Yongan District.

A modern Taiwanese opera production at Weiwuying blended the story of Cleopatra with Middle Eastern dance, Chinese martial arts and an all-female trio of leading performers.

Kaohsiung is studying an 18.3-kilometer MRT Green Line through five eastern districts, but the project has no approved budget or construction schedule and could take decades to complete.

Kaohsiung plans to open the Niaosong–Weiwuying section of the MRT Yellow Line in 2032, while completion of the full 22.91-kilometer network remains targeted for 2034.

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an and DPP Taipei candidate Shen Po-yang traveled to Kaohsiung on the same day, helping their parties turn the city’s mayoral race into a contest with national visibility.

A preferred development team has been chosen for a NT$7.2 billion project beside R17 World Games Station, bringing planned housing, offices and childcare closer to Kaohsiung’s growing semiconductor corridor.

Kaohsiung Port could gain 508 hectares of new land under a reclamation project lasting from 2029 to 2059. The plan would absorb construction and dredging material but must first pass a full environmental review.

Judicial Reform Party mayoral candidate Chang Ching has proposed removing Kaohsiung’s former railway station building, putting the light rail underground and making public transportation free. No costs or implementation schedules were released.