The PFP will support the KMT's candidates in the Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral races, the KMT said yesterday.
The KMT plans to field incumbent Ma Ying-jeou (
"I plan to meet PFP Chairman James Soong (
The KMT plans to formally nominate Ma at its weekly Central Standing Committee tomorrow.
Because Lien plans to travel abroad beginning on Thursday, he has asked party officials to contact the PFP within the next two days to arrange a meeting between him and Soong.
In addition to Huang, other KMT members hoping to get the party's nod to run in Kaohsiung have included Huang Chi-chuan (
But KMT headquarters recently revealed to the media that Huang Chun-ying would be the party's choice to run for Kaohsiung mayor.
Lin Feng-cheng (
"I have to reiterate: The only way to beat the ruling DPP is successful cooperation between the KMT and the PFP," Lin said yesterday.
Though apparently out of the running, Huang Chi-chuan -- who was physically attacked by pro-DPP supporters and hospitalized in Kaohsiung last month -- said yesterday he was still determined to win his party's nomination.
The city council speaker paid a visit to Pan Chia-sen (
"We could feel his determination at the meeting," Pan said.
"I think negotiations for the final decision should take place at central party headquarters," the party official said.
Considering that most countries issue more than five denominations of banknotes, the central bank has decided to redesign all five denominations, the bank said as it prepares for the first major overhaul of the banknotes in more than 24 years. Central bank Governor Yang Chin-lung (楊金龍) is expected to report to the Legislative Yuan today on the bank’s operations and the redesign’s progress. The bank in a report sent to the legislature ahead of today’s meeting said it had commissioned a survey on the public’s preferences. Survey results showed that NT$100 and NT$1,000 banknotes are the most commonly used, while NT$200 and NT$2,000
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday reported the first case of a new COVID-19 subvariant — BA.3.2 — in a 10-year-old Singaporean girl who had a fever upon arrival in Taiwan and tested positive for the disease. The girl left Taiwan on March 20 and the case did not have a direct impact on the local community, it said. The WHO added the BA.3.2 strain to its list of Variants Under Monitoring in December last year, but this was the first imported case of the COVID-19 variant in Taiwan, CDC Deputy Director-General Lin Ming-cheng (林明誠) said. The girl arrived in Taiwan on
South Korea is planning to revise its controversial electronic arrival card, a step Taiwanese officials said prompted them to hold off on planned retaliatory measures, a South Korean media report said yesterday. A Yonhap News Agency report said that the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs is planning to remove the “previous departure place” and “next destination” fields from its e-arrival card system. The plan, reached after interagency consultations, is under review and aims to simplify entry procedures and align the electronic form with the paper version, a South Korean ministry official said. The fields — which appeared only on the electronic form
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) is suspending retaliation measures against South Korea that were set to take effect tomorrow, after Seoul said it is updating its e-arrival system, MOFA said today. The measures were to be a new round of retaliation after Taiwan on March 1 changed South Korea's designation on government-issued alien resident certificates held by South Korean nationals to "South Korea” from the "Republic of Korea," the country’s official name. The move came after months of protests to Seoul over its listing of Taiwan as "China (Taiwan)" in dropdown menus on its new online immigration entry system. MOFA last week
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