The Home Party, founded by key members of the former anti-President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) campaign, may nominate a presidential candidate if the party wins more than 5 percent of the vote for political parties during Saturday's legislative poll, campaign leader Shih Ming-teh (施明德) said yesterday.
Shih told a press conference that it was possible that former United Microelectronics Corp (
In the new "single district, two-vote" system, voters will be able to choose their preferred party in addition to voting for a legislative candidate. A party must win more than 5 percent of the vote to gain legislator-at-large seats.
PHOTO: LIU HSIN-DE, TAIPEI TIMES
Shih accused the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of threatening the survival of smaller parties by running advertisements aimed at boosting voter support for them on Saturday.
Saying that a "corrupt" DPP and a KMT that upholds "black gold" politics may become the only two parties that remain in the legislature after the legislative poll, Shih called on voters to support the Home Party instead.
"If, like me, you are worried about Taiwan being disrupted by the wrangling between the pan-blue and the pan-green camps, are you willing to vote for Taiwan's hope? This is our humble request," he says in the party's new commercial.
"I must warn the KMT and the DPP against trying to `kill off' the smaller parties," Shih said, adding that they should not to underestimate the power of smaller parties.
‘NEVER!’ Taiwan FactCheck Center said it had only received donations from the Open Society Foundations, which supports nonprofits that promote democratic values Taiwan FactCheck Center (TFC) has never received any donation from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), a cofounder of the organization wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday. The Taipei-based organization was established in 2018 by Taiwan Media Watch Foundation and the Association of Quality Journalism to monitor and verify news and information accuracy. It was officially registered as a foundation in 2021. National Chung Cheng University communications professor Lo Shih-hung (羅世宏), a cofounder and chairman of TFC, was responding to online rumors that the TFC receives funding from the US government’s humanitarian assistance agency via the Open Society Foundations (OSF),
ANNUAL LIGHT SHOW: The lanterns are exhibited near Taoyuan’s high-speed rail station and around the Taoyuan Sports Park Station of the airport MRT line More than 400 lanterns are to be on display at the annual Taiwan Lantern Festival, which officially starts in Taoyuan today. The city is hosting the festival for the second time — the first time was in 2016. The Tourism Administration held a rehearsal of the festival last night. Chunghwa Telecom donated the main lantern of the festival to the Taoyuan City Government. The lanterns are exhibited in two main areas: near the high-speed rail (HSR) station in Taoyuan, which is at the A18 station of the Taoyuan Airport MRT, and around the Taoyuan Sports Park Station of the MRT
An alleged US government plan to encourage Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) to form a joint venture with Intel to boost US chipmaking would place the Taiwanese foundry giant in a more disadvantageous position than proposed tariffs on imported chips, a semiconductor expert said yesterday. If TSMC forms a joint venture with its US rival, it faces the risk of technology outflow, said Liu Pei-chen (劉佩真), a researcher at the Taiwan Industry Economics Database of the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research. A report by international financial services firm Baird said that Asia semiconductor supply chain talks suggest that the US government would
Starlux Airlines on Tuesday announced it is to launch new direct flights from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to Ontario, California, on June 2. The carrier said it plans to deploy the new-generation Airbus A350 on the Taipei-Ontario route. The Airbus A350 features a total of 306 seats, including four in first class, 26 in business class, 36 in premium economy and 240 in economy. According to Starlux’s initial schedule, four flights would run between Taoyuan and Ontario per week: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Flights are to depart from Taoyuan at 8:05pm and arrive in California at 5:05pm (local time), while return flights