Nearly 60 percent of Taipei citizens wouldn't mind having a female mayor, a recent survey showed.
According to the survey, conducted by the Decision Making Research Center, PFP legislator Lee Ching-an (李慶安), Council for Hakka Affairs Chairwoman Yeh Chu-lan (葉菊蘭) and independent legislator Sisy Chen (陳文茜) were the top choices among Taipei citizens to be a woman mayor.
DPP legislator Wang Hsueh-fung (
As Ma, of the KMT, has already expressed an interest in running for re-election, other parties have been searching for candidates strong enough to take him on.
Wang said she believed Yeh could gain enormous support from Taipei's citizens.
Wang and Lee Wen-ying (李文英), convener of a women's advocacy group, said they would start a petition soon to ask DPP party headquarters to nominate Yeh for the Taipei mayoral race.
Rather than persist in having a male candidate, Wang said, the DPP should take a different perspective and nominate a female candidate for the position.
Meanwhile, DPP legislator Luo Wen-jia (羅文嘉) yesterday said that the party would name its candidate for the mayoral election by June. Luo said the DPP was confident it would field a qualified candidate to run against Ma.
President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) already has a candidate in mind, Luo said, but the time has not yet come to make public the candidate's name.
Luo declined to comment on possible DPP candidates. Speculation has centered on Minister of Justice Chen Ding-nan (
Though he is not expected to run in this year's election, Luo, a close aid of President Chen and a former director of the DPP's Department of Culture and Information, has been tipped by many as a possible DPP Taipei mayoral candidate in the future.
The Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Wanda-Zhonghe Line is 81.7 percent complete, with public opening targeted for the end of 2027, New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) said today. Surrounding roads are to be open to the public by the end of next year, Hou said during an inspection of construction progress. The 9.5km line, featuring nine underground stations and one depot, is expected to connect Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Station to Chukuang Station in New Taipei City’s Jhonghe District (中和). All 18 tunnels for the line are complete, while the main structures of the stations and depot are mostly finished, he
The first global hotel Keys Selection by the Michelin Guide includes four hotels in Taiwan, Michelin announced yesterday. All four received the “Michelin One Key,” indicating guests are to experience a “very special stay” at any of the locations as the establishments are “a true gem with personality. Service always goes the extra mile, and the hotel provides much more than others in its price range.” Of the four hotels, three are located in Taipei and one in Taichung. In Taipei, the One Key accolades were awarded to the Capella Taipei, Kimpton Da An Taipei and Mandarin Oriental Taipei. Capella Taipei was described by
Minister of Economic Affairs Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫) yesterday said that private-sector refiners are willing to stop buying Russian naphtha should the EU ask them to, after a group of non-governmental organizations, including the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), criticized the nation’s continued business with the country. While Taiwan joined the US and its Western allies in putting broad sanctions on Russia after it invaded Ukraine in 2022, it did not explicitly ban imports of naphtha, a major hard-currency earner for Russia. While state-owned firms stopped importing Russian oil in 2023, there is no restriction on private companies to
INDUSTRY: Beijing’s latest export measures go beyond targeting the US and would likely affect any country that uses Chinese rare earths or related tech, an academic said Taiwanese industries could face significant disruption from China’s newly tightened export controls on rare earth elements, as much of Taiwan’s supply indirectly depends on Chinese materials processed in Japan, a local expert said yesterday. Kristy Hsu (徐遵慈), director of the Taiwan ASEAN Studies Center at the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, said that China’s latest export measures go far beyond targeting the US and would likely affect any country that uses Chinese rare earths or related technologies. With Japan and Southeast Asian countries among those expected to be hit, Taiwan could feel the impact through its reliance on Japanese-made semi-finished products and
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