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 National Immigration Agency (NIA) said yesterday that it will revoke the dependent-based residence permit of a Chinese social media influencer who reportedly “openly advocated for [China’s] unification through military force” with Taiwan. The Chinese national, identified by her surname Liu (劉), will have her residence permit revoked in accordance with Article 14 of the “Measures for the permission of family- based residence, long-term residence and settlement of people from the Mainland Area in the Taiwan Area,” the NIA said in a news release. The agency explained it received reports that Liu made “unifying Taiwan through military force” statements on her online
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off Taitung County at 1:09pm today, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. The hypocenter was 53km northeast of Taitung County Hall at a depth of 12.5km, CWA data showed. The intensity of the quake, which gauges the actual effect of a seismic event, measured 4 in Taitung County and Hualien County on Taiwan's seven-tier intensity scale, the data showed. The quake had an intensity of 3 in Nantou County, Chiayi County, Yunlin County, Kaohsiung and Tainan, the data showed. There were no immediate reports of damage following the quake.
Tung Tzu-hsien (童子賢), a Taiwanese businessman and deputy convener of the nation’s National Climate Change Committee, said yesterday that “electrical power is national power” and nuclear energy is “very important to Taiwan.” Tung made the remarks, suggesting that his views do not align with the country’s current official policy of phasing out nuclear energy, at a forum organized by the Taiwan People’s Party titled “Challenges and Prospects of Taiwan’s AI Industry and Energy Policy.” “Taiwan is currently pursuing industries with high added- value and is developing vigorously, and this all requires electricity,” said the chairman
Actor Darren Wang (王大陸) is to begin his one-year alternative military service tomorrow amid ongoing legal issues, the Ministry of the Interior said yesterday. Wang, who last month was released on bail of NT$150,000 (US$4,561) as he faces charges of allegedly attempting to evade military service and forging documents, has been ordered to report to Taipei Railway Station at 9am tomorrow, the Alternative Military Service Training and Management Center said. The 33-year-old would join about 1,300 other conscripts in the 263rd cohort of general alternative service for training at the Chenggong Ling camp in Taichung, a center official told reporters. Wang would first
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