While the pan-green camp was able to retain its grip on southern Taiwan, with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidates for Tainan City, as well as Tainan, Chiayi and Kaohsiung counties succeeding in their re-election bids, it gave up seats in other areas to the pan-blue camp.
Aside from losing Chiayi City and Ilan County, the DPP also handed Changhua County to the KMT, with KMT candidate Cho Po-yuan (
In Nantou County, the pan-green camp lost to the KMT as a result of the pan-green vote being split between two candidates. KMT candidate Lee Chao-ching (
In Keelung, things got off to a bumpy start in the morning when Taipei Mayor and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (
Ma was accused of trying to sway voters.
But the day ended well for the pan-blue camp in Keelung, however, with the incumbent Hsu emerging victorious, maintaining a clear and steady lead over People First Party (PFP) candidate Liu Wen-hsiung (
In Taoyuan County, despite the release of a controversial video that attacked the reputation of KMT Mayor Chu Li-lun (朱立倫) during the campaign, Chu reclaimed his seat, beating DPP candidate Cheng Po-ching (鄭寶清).
In Miaoli County, voters notably elected a non-Hakka candidate to represent them, selecting KMT candidate Liu Cheng-hung (劉政鴻), of Hoklo ethnicity, over DPP candidate Chiu Bing-kun (邱炳坤) and independent candidate Hsu Yao-chang (徐耀昌).
FLU SEASON: Twenty-six severe cases were reported from Tuesday last week to Monday, including a seven-year-old girl diagnosed with influenza-associated encephalopathy Nearly 140,000 people sought medical assistance for diarrhea last week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said on Tuesday. From April 7 to Saturday last week, 139,848 people sought medical help for diarrhea-related illness, a 15.7 percent increase from last week’s 120,868 reports, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Center Deputy Director Lee Chia-lin (李佳琳) said. The number of people who reported diarrhea-related illness last week was the fourth highest in the same time period over the past decade, Lee said. Over the past four weeks, 203 mass illness cases had been reported, nearly four times higher than the 54 cases documented in the same period
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not