The KMT's Lien-Siew ticket (連蕭配) is the front-runner in the upcoming election in most areas of the country, KMT campaign manager Jason Hu (胡自強) said yesterday.
Hu told a Taipei meeting of journalists that the only regions where extra help is needed are the country's most densely populated regions, the cities of Taipei and Kaohsiung.
Acting Speaker of the National Assembly Chen Chin-jang (陳金讓) campaigned yesterday for the Lien-Siew ticket on Kinmen island, according to reports.
He also attended a spring worshipping ceremony for the Chen-clan Association (陳姓宗親會) and then visited several township offices on the island.
Chen told Kinmen residents that Lien is the only candidate who has the ability to maintain national security and national prosperity.
Lien Fang Yu (連方瑀), Lien's wife, was also on the campaign trail yesterday, stumping for her husband in various military dependents' villages in Kaohsiung County.
She was accompanied by Koahsiung County Councilor Lu Shumei (陸淑美) as she went door-to-door to solicit votes. She said that if her husband is elected, he would take special care of veterans's needs.
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications yesterday inaugurated the Danjiang Bridge across the Tamsui River in New Taipei City, saying that the structure would be an architectural icon and traffic artery for Taiwan. Feted as a major engineering achievement, the Danjiang Bridge is 920m long, 211m tall at the top of its pylon, and is the longest single-pylon asymmetric cable-stayed bridge in the world, the government’s Web site for the structure said. It was designed by late Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid. The structure, with a maximum deck of 70m, accommodates road and light rail traffic, and affords a 200m navigation channel for boats,
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), the world’s largest foundry service provider, yesterday said that global semiconductor revenue is projected to hit US$1.5 trillion in 2030, after the figure exceeds US$1 trillion this year, as artificial intelligence (AI) demand boosts consumption of token and compute power. “We are still at the beginning of the AI revolution, but we already see a significant impact across the whole semiconductor ecosystem,” TSMC deputy cochief operating officer Kevin Zhang (張曉強) said at the company’s annual technology symposium in Hsinchu City. “It is fair to say that in the past decade, smartphones and other mobile devices were
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