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Shen Nai-hsun argues that the KMT’s move to legislate judicial caning after its referendum proposal was rejected risks weakening its original case that voters should decide.

Party Chair Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) has not demonstrated an ability to revive the party, and her influence over the local elections has been minimal. The three prominent figures once described as the “Bald Man, Tough Man and Swallow,” referring to Han Kuo-yu, Hou You-yi (侯友宜) and Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕), have also failed to demonstrate the ability to guide the election nationwide. The KMT now faces a serious shortage of political stars

Opinion writer Shen Nai-hsun argues that Kaohsiung’s NT$8.1 billion redevelopment of Cianjhen Fishing Port has failed to provide foreign fishing workers with adequate, affordable accommodation and shower facilities.

Once a magnet for young shoppers, Kaohsiung’s Yu-Chu district has spent years in decline. Lower rents and a wave of bars, music events and independent shops have brought people back at night, but the city still needs a credible plan to make the area work in daylight too.

Prosecutors suspect that some printed circuit boards manufactured in China were shipped to Taiwan and relabeled as “Made in Taiwan,” possibly involving document forgery and false product labeling. Unimicron has said it will cooperate with the investigation and that its operations and finances have not been materially affected.

Military commentator Chris Clifford, better known in Taiwan as YouTuber Uncle Topher, argues that PLA leadership purges may be one explanation for why Beijing’s military spectacle around Taiwan has faded.

By Yu-Jhou (Jonathan) Chen. AI image based on Mayor Chiang’s official portrait. TAIPEI — Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) recently…

Rather than simply adding another theme park or constructing another iconic skyscraper, the plan seeks to comprehensively transform Singapore’s southern coastline over the next two decades, evolving Sentosa from a leisure island into a world-class island destination that integrates tourism, recreation, ecology, culture, and everyday living.

Slow exposure to the joy of thinking and talking about something a student has read can become addictive. And the dopamine hits from a teacher or classmates are not all about praise. The biggest hits come from being understood. That is why Englist’s tagline works so well — Writing is thinking.

The most moving part of the novel is not actually history itself, but how this displacement seeps into everyday life: hotels, railways, cities, food, even ambiguous same-sex relationships. Colonialism is not just an abstract macro-political structure, but a rewriting of subtle modes of perception. Who gets to see, who gets to name, whose language gets written into menus and maps—these details constitute the true technology of colonialism.