Politics
By RK Shih/Staff Photo shows Lai speaking to the media in September 2025. Via Yahoo News. TAIPEI — When the new Legislative…
Chiu said that if elected mayor, she would construct a levee-top expressway running parallel to the Gaoping River (高屏溪堤岸), forming the backbone of a proposed “30-minute Greater Kaohsiung Living Circle.” The corridor would link Kaohsiung (高雄), Pingtung (屏東), and Tainan (台南) into a unified “Southern Taiwan Metropolitan Region.”
A speaker at a DPP mayoral candidate’s rally told supporters to adjust their answers in political polls. Critics say that’s cheating. The candidate says it was just an explanation of how polls work.
Taiwan is often in the international news … [and] will continue to be a topic that foreign media and scholars write about.
Unfortunately, many of these materials will have errors, or even fake news. Who benefits from this?
Speaking before about a hundred supporters in Kaohsiung, Cheng said a top priority if elected would be to “end the long rule of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Tainan and Kaohsiung.”
Once buoyed by strong early polling and factional backing, legislator Lin Dai-hua’s (林岱樺), decline has reportedly left the DPP’s Kaohsiung network — known as the Chu faction (菊系), linked to former Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) — divided and unmotivated to unite behind a single candidate.
Despite calls for unity, none of the four DPP candidates appear ready to drop out and endorse a rival DPP lawmaker Lin Tai-hua (林岱樺)…
The KMT says the events aim to build unity ahead of the 2026 local elections and the 2028 presidential race , with the goal of returning…
Saying both sides are to blame here is like insisting that Poland provoked pre-1941 buddies Hitler and Stalin by existing. AI Generated…
DPP Candidate for Kaohsiung Mayor Hsu Chih-chieh (許智傑) Opens Campaign Office in Zuoying
Worries grow over a surprise KMT win in next year’s election
