The campaign headquarters of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taipei mayoral candidate Frank Hsieh (
Hsiao Yu-chen (
For example, Hsiao said, Hau had violated electoral regulations by erecting campaign boards long before the permitted time.
According to the Election and Recall Law of Civil Servants (公務人員選舉罷免法), campaign boards cannot be erected until two months prior to election day.
Hsiao accused Hau of giving out breakfasts to people taking part in former DPP chairman Shih Ming-teh's (施明德) anti-Chen campaign sit-in on Ketagalan Boulevard in order to "bribe" them.
She also said Dajia Riverside Park was filled with trash after Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (
She urged Hau to "face the problems" mentioned by Hsieh's headquarters and respond to the charges.
Hau's campaign spokeswoman Jen Hsiao-chi (任孝琦) said in a telephone interview that the campaign has responded previously to the issues raised and therefore further comment was unnecessary.
However, she said it was impossible that Hau had tried to "bribe" people with food as he had only brought a pot of red bean soup to the sit-in, and such a small amount would not have gone far.
She also said there had not been barbecues at the Dajia event and that campaign staffers had tried to discourage people from having barbecue in the park earlier that day.
The Central Weather Administration (CWA) today issued a sea warning for Typhoon Fung-wong effective from 5:30pm, while local governments canceled school and work for tomorrow. A land warning is expected to be issued tomorrow morning before it is expected to make landfall on Wednesday, the agency said. Taoyuan, and well as Yilan, Hualien and Penghu counties canceled work and school for tomorrow, as well as mountainous district of Taipei and New Taipei City. For updated information on closures, please visit the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration Web site. As of 5pm today, Fung-wong was about 490km south-southwest of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan's southernmost point.
Almost a quarter of volunteer soldiers who signed up from 2021 to last year have sought early discharge, the Legislative Yuan’s Budget Center said in a report. The report said that 12,884 of 52,674 people who volunteered in the period had sought an early exit from the military, returning NT$895.96 million (US$28.86 million) to the government. In 2021, there was a 105.34 percent rise in the volunteer recruitment rate, but the number has steadily declined since then, missing recruitment targets, the Chinese-language United Daily News said, citing the report. In 2021, only 521 volunteers dropped out of the military, the report said, citing
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Kaohsiung at 1pm today, the Central Weather Administration said. The epicenter was in Jiasian District (甲仙), 72.1km north-northeast of Kaohsiung City Hall, at a depth of 7.8km, agency data showed. There were no immediate reports of damage. The earthquake's intensity, which gauges the actual effects of a temblor, was highest in Kaohsiung and Tainan, where it measured a 4 on Taiwan's seven-tier intensity scale. It also measured a 3 in parts of Chiayi City, as well as Pingtung, Yunlin and Hualien counties, data showed.
Nearly 5 million people have signed up to receive the government’s NT$10,000 (US$322) universal cash handout since registration opened on Wednesday last week, with deposits expected to begin tomorrow, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday. After a staggered sign-up last week — based on the final digit of the applicant’s national ID or Alien Resident Certificate number — online registration is open to all eligible Taiwanese nationals, foreign permanent residents and spouses of Taiwanese nationals. Banks are expected to start issuing deposits from 6pm today, the ministry said. Those who completed registration by yesterday are expected to receive their NT$10,000 tomorrow, National Treasury
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