The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday completed its primaries for the year-end mayoral and county commissioner elections, and announced nominees for six electoral districts.
According to the primary results, former DPP vice chairman Chiu Tai-san (
Although his competitor, former DPP legislator Lin Feng-hsi (
Lin refused to concede his defeat in the primary, and threatened to resign from his post of National Assembly delegate.
In the primaries, six counties and cities were contested for by DPP candidates. After completing two polls six nominees were confirmed yesterday.
In Ilan County, former minister of justice Chen Ding-nan (陳定南) will seek the chance to head the county government that he led before. Hsinchu City Councilor Cheng Kwai-yuan (鄭貴元) and the Legislator-at-large Tsai Huang-liang (蔡煌瑯) will campaign for the top posts in Hsinchu City and Nantou County. In Yunlin County, former DPP legislator Su Chih-fen (蘇治芬) will campaign for the commissionership.
Taipei on Thursday held urban resilience air raid drills, with residents in one of the exercises’ three “key verification zones” reporting little to no difference compared with previous years, despite government pledges of stricter enforcement. Formerly known as the Wanan exercise, the air raid drills, which concluded yesterday, are now part of the “Urban Resilience Exercise,” which also incorporates the Minan disaster prevention and rescue exercise. In Taipei, the designated key verification zones — where the government said more stringent measures would be enforced — were Songshan (松山), Zhongshan (中山) and Zhongzheng (中正) districts. Air raid sirens sounded at 1:30pm, signaling the
The number of people who reported a same-sex spouse on their income tax increased 1.5-fold from 2020 to 2023, while the overall proportion of taxpayers reporting a spouse decreased by 4.4 percent from 2014 to 2023, Ministry of Finance data showed yesterday. The number of people reporting a spouse on their income tax trended upward from 2014 to 2019, the Department of Statistics said. However, the number decreased in 2020 and 2021, likely due to a drop in marriages during the COVID-19 pandemic and the income of some households falling below the taxable threshold, it said. The number of spousal tax filings rebounded
A saleswoman, surnamed Chen (陳), earlier this month was handed an 18-month prison term for embezzling more than 2,000 pairs of shoes while working at a department store in Tainan. The Tainan District Court convicted Chen of embezzlement in a ruling on July 7, sentencing her to prison for illegally profiting NT$7.32 million (US$248,929) at the expense of her employer. Chen was also given the opportunity to reach a financial settlement, but she declined. Chen was responsible for the sales counter of Nike shoes at Tainan’s Shinkong Mitsukoshi Zhongshan branch, where she had been employed since October 2019. She had previously worked
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