Fubon Life’s Aozihdi development will combine offices, a hotel, department store and aquarium beside the MRT and light rail, making it one of north Kaohsiung’s most consequential projects.

Kaohsiung’s Asia New Bay Area is attracting banks and family-office services, but it is too soon to conclude that the financial push has already transformed the local property market.

A Kaohsiung poll puts Mayor Chen Chi-mai’s job approval at 83.5%, but the landline survey is a measure of reported sentiment, not a forecast of November’s mayoral race.

Six passengers climbed out of a stalled elevator by ladder after waiting nearly 90 minutes for rescue at Kaohsiung Main Station.

Drivers on a stretch of Jiangong Road (建工路) in Sanmin District (三民區) are now subject to a reduced speed limit of 30 kph as construction continues on Yellow Line (黃線) Station Y8, part of the city’s second MRT line.

Kaohsiung expects more shared tax revenue in 2027 but says a larger loss of central project grants will leave its overall budget NT$4.9 billion smaller. The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) disputes that explanation, arguing that the law increased Kaohsiung’s share of national tax revenue and that the reduction in project grants was a separate decision by the central government.

Kaohsiung’s final water-themed event of the summer will bring giant sea-creature installations, children’s activities, performances and a food market to Singguang Waterfront Park this weekend.

Chen Chi-mai’s new book recounts six years of Kaohsiung projects, political negotiations and late-night calls that former president Tsai Ing-wen jokingly described as “torture.”

Police took more than 200 people in for questioning after raiding a makeshift weekend nightclub in Daliao. The same venue was reportedly shut down following a major drug investigation in 2024 but later reopened.

Taiwan’s first N700ST high-speed train has arrived through the Port of Kaohsiung, beginning a major expansion that will eventually increase the railway’s peak-hour capacity by about 25%.