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).
Starlux Airlines, Taiwan’s newest international carrier, has announced it would apply to join the Oneworld global airline alliance before the end of next year. In an investor conference on Monday, Starlux Airlines chief executive officer Glenn Chai (翟健華) said joining the alliance would help it access Taiwan. Chai said that if accepted, Starlux would work with other airlines in the alliance on flight schedules, passenger transits and frequent flyer programs. The Oneworld alliance has 13 members, including American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Qantas, and serves more than 900 destinations in 170 territories. Joining Oneworld would also help boost
A new tropical storm formed late yesterday near Guam and is to approach closest to Taiwan on Thursday, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. Tropical Storm Pulasan became the 14th named storm of the year at 9:25pm yesterday, the agency said. As of 8am today, it was near Guam traveling northwest at 21kph, it said. The storm’s structure is relatively loose and conditions for strengthening are limited, WeatherRisk analyst Wu Sheng-yu (吳聖宇) said on Facebook. Its path is likely to be similar to Typhoon Bebinca, which passed north of Taiwan over Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and made landfall in Shanghai this morning, he said. However, it
Taiwan's Gold Apollo Co (金阿波羅通信) said today that the pagers used in detonations in Lebanon the day before were not made by it, but by a company called BAC which has a license to use its brand. At least nine people were killed and nearly 3,000 wounded when pagers used by Hezbollah members detonated simultaneously across Lebanon yesterday. Images of destroyed pagers analyzed by Reuters showed a format and stickers on the back that were consistent with pagers made by Gold Apollo. A senior Lebanese security source told Reuters that Hezbollah had ordered 5,000 pagers from Taiwan-based Gold Apollo. "The product was not
COLD FACTS: ‘Snow skin’ mooncakes, made with a glutinous rice skin and kept at a low temperature, have relatively few calories compared with other mooncakes Traditional mooncakes are a typical treat for many Taiwanese in the lead-up to the Mid-Autumn Festival, but a Taipei-based dietitian has urged people not to eat more than one per day and not to have them every day due to their high fat and calorie content. As mooncakes contain a lot of oil and sugar, they can have negative health effects on older people and those with diabetes, said Lai Yu-han (賴俞含), a dietitian at Taipei Hospital of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. “The maximum you can have is one mooncake a day, and do not eat them every day,” Lai
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