Mayor Visits San Francisco, Explores Benefits of Innovation (Taipei City...
(Source: Taipei City Government) Mayor Visits San Francisco, Explores Benefits of Innovation Mayor Ko Wen-je visited San Francisco City Hall and met with his counterpart Edwin M. Lee on March 9. Ko...
View ArticleTaipei to follow San Francisco
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday said in the US that Taipei would model its high-tech sector after that of San Francisco to promote innovation and help the city become the innovation hub of Asia....
View ArticleTaipei planning to diversify its tourist base, mayor says
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), when asked to comment on rumors that China is planning to reduce its daily number of tourists to Taiwan, said that he hopes China will not “use business to push politics.”...
View ArticleKo downplays remarks on arresting protesters
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday sought to downplay a remark he made a day earlier that he would have people who oppose his policies “arrested,” saying it was directed at “irrational” people who...
View ArticleMayor Thanks Rescue Association for Making Taipei a Safer City (Taipei City...
(Source: Taipei City Government) City News Mayor Thanks Rescue Association for Making Taipei a Safer City On July 13, Mayor Hau Lung-bin attended the 22nd anniversary celebration of Taipei Rescue...
View ArticleTaiwan plane with 58 aboard crashes in Taipei; 19 killed
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- A Taiwanese flight carrying 58 people turned on its side in midair, clipped an elevated roadway and careened into a shallow river Wednesday shortly after taking off from Taipei,...
View ArticleKo touts new water procedures
The Taipei City Government is to decide upon a new standard operating procedure to regulate water supplies in Taipei and New Taipei City during and after typhoons, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said...
View ArticleKo gets behind expansion of Taipei-Shanghai forum
The Taipei-Shanghai Forum could be expanded to become a cross-strait city forum, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said yesterday, following a meeting with Taipei Chamber of Commerce director-general Wang...
View ArticleThousands stroll with Ko
With their pets and families in tow, tens of thousands of people packed the Taipei MRT’s Taipei Zoo Station yesterday to join independent Taipei mayoral candidate Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) and his wife, Peggy...
View ArticleTaipei mayor heads for Shanghai
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) is scheduled to travel to Shanghai this afternoon to attend this year’s Taipei-Shanghai forum and is expected to meet with Shanghai Mayor Yang Xiong (楊雄) tonight. In...
View ArticleMayor criticizes Taipei lawmakers
Legislators in Taipei are “mostly old people” who spend one-third of their time using their influence on behalf of voters, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said on Sunday. Ko made the remarks at a press...
View ArticleWater Park Inferno: Taipei mayor urges integrated disaster response measures
Taipei’s and New Taipei City’s disaster evacuation procedures should be more closely integrated, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said yesterday. Both cities’ hospitals were flooded with patients following...
View ArticleTaiwan plane with 58 aboard crashes in Taipei; 23 killed
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- A Taiwanese flight carrying 58 people banked sharply onto its side, clipped a highway bridge and careened into a shallow river Wednesday shortly after taking off from Taipei,...
View ArticleKo ‘weak in the knees’ over MeHAS compensation
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday sparred with the city’s Department of Rapid Transit Systems regarding solutions to a dispute over land the Taipei City Government seized for the construction of...
View ArticleTaipei planning new bus routes in Neihu to ease congestion
New bus routes are planned to alleviate traffic congestion in Taipei’s Neihu District (內湖), the Department of Transportation said yesterday. Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) instructed the department to...
View ArticleBig prices in little Taipei: Why is property so expensive in Taiwan's capital?
(CNN)Where are the most expensive cities to buy a home? New York City, London, Hong Kong, Monte Carlo are always the leading contenders. But could there be another, less spoken of candidate, in the Far...
View ArticleCampaign donations to go to charity: Ko Wen-je
Leftover election subsidies will be donated to charity, independent Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said in an interview on Wednesday night. Hosts of a talk show on NextTV showed the mayor a video clip...
View ArticleTRADE PACT SIEGE: Kaohsiung sets April 7 to honor freedom fighter
Greater Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) announced the designation of yesterday, April 7, as the city’s Freedom of Expression Day in honor of late democracy advocate Deng Nan-jung’s (鄭南榕) sacrifice. Deng...
View ArticleStarting up Made Easy @ COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2016 (COMPUTEX TAIPEI)
(Source: COMPUTEX TAIPEI) New Exhibit: InnoVEX - ICT & IoT Platform for Startups IoT related applications and products are more than just popular. Out of 1,700 exhibitors, there were more than 700...
View ArticleKo broke law on water during typhoon: KMT
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday said Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) violated the Water Supply Act (自來水法) by providing turbid water to parts of Taipei following Typhoon Soudelor, which...
View ArticleTyphoon Soudelor: Taipei Dome debris wreaks havoc
The Farglory Group (遠雄集團) is to be fined and ordered to strip the Taipei Dome’s roofing after large pieces of metal paneling were blown off the structure during Typhoon Soudelor, Taipei’s Department of...
View ArticleTaipei rivals go head-to-head in Ice Bucket Challenge
Taiwanese politicians and celebrities have joined in on one of the latest trends making the rounds on social media in which a person films themselves pouring ice water on their head, posts the video...
View ArticleNo Ko vendetta: tax bureau
The National Taxation Bureau denied “deliberate targeting” of Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) in a probe into whether money he had received from his parents had been a loan or a gift. On Monday, former...
View ArticleUK transport official Susan Kramer lauds tighter Taiwan ties
British Minister of State for Transport Susan Kramer yesterday said that she looks forward to much closer collaboration between Taiwan and the UK to bring more opportunities for both sides after she...
View ArticleCreative demand: Taiwan says radical school reform will set it apart
Taiwan plans a radical reform of its education system, one aiming to set it apart in East Asia by playing up creativity and student initiative instead of the rote memorization that dominates classroom...
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Civil powers vs dirty tricks The first stop of independent Taipei mayoral candidate Ko Wen-je’s (柯文哲) six-day whirlwind visit to the US was the San Francisco Bay Area. During lunch on Wednesday, he met...
View ArticleTaipei mayor opts out of 228 Incident ceremonies
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) is not scheduled to attend a memorial ceremony on Sunday to mark the 69th anniversary of the 228 Incident. Taiwan Nation Alliance convener Yao Chia-wen (姚嘉文) quoted the...
View ArticleFault for turbid tap water lies upstream: Mayor Ko
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday attributed the turbidity of tap water in areas of the city following Typhoon Soudelor to poor soil and water conservation efforts upstream of Nanshih River (南勢溪),...
View Article6 die as Typhoon Soudelor hits Taiwan; 4.2 feet of rain in one area
Typhoon Soudelor made landfall on Taiwan before daybreak Saturday, lashing the island with torrential rain and winds up to 129 mph and leaving at least six people dead and nearly 3 million households...
View ArticleTaiwan diaries: Rare snapshot into a country which in many ways is a place...
(ILLUSTRATIONS: ANIRBAN BORA) The Republic of China - not to be confused with mainland China — is in many ways a country like no other. ET Magazine's intrepid writer who spent a week there as an...
View ArticleTaipei countdown features singers, mayor
Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to Taipei’s Xinyi District (信義) on Thursday night for the city government’s New Year’s Eve countdown party and to celebrate the new year. The star-studded party...
View ArticleConstruction to cause congestion on Taipei roads
A “severe test” awaits commuters returning to work today after the nine-day Lunar New Year holiday, as a new road construction project is to begin following the demolition of a Zhongxiao Bridge (忠孝橋)...
View ArticleTaipei, New Taipei City residents report murky water supply
Despite water suspensions implemented by the Taipei City Government to prevent murky water supplies in the wake of Typhoon Dujuan, some Taipei and New Taipei City residents said they still had murky...
View ArticleKo promotes ties with a Taipei twin, Yokohama
Promoting exchanges between Taiwan and Japan is necessary for upholding Taiwan’s national security, as well as for maintaining peace and security throughout East Asia, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said...
View ArticleMurky water avoidable: official
The debate over murky tap water seen in Taipei and New Taipei City following Typhoon Soudelor continued yesterday as Vice Minister of Economic Affairs Yang Wei-fu (楊偉甫) accused the Taipei City...
View ArticleKo says not interested in presidential race in 2020
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday said he has no interest in running for president in 2020. Amid speculation that his recent appearances with legislative candidates have been aimed at building...
View ArticleTaipei authorities boosting fines for cigarette butt litter
After a local resident allegedly attempted to shower Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) with cigarette butts, the Taipei City Government announced over the weekend that littering fines for cigarette butts...
View ArticleTaipei mayor contenders hold debate
The two main rivals for Taipei mayor faced off in a televised debate last night, crossing swords on issues ranging from labor, gender equality and national identity to ethics, nuclear energy and the...
View ArticleDebate over Taipei fund
The Taipei City Council’s Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus could make concessions over its plan to cut a substantial portion of the large second reserve fund proposed by Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je...
View ArticlePrice hikes planned before lead pipe concerns: Taipei
The Taipei Water Department yesterday said that an upcoming water price hike by the city had been planned before the media began reporting on health concerns over lead pipes over the past week. While...
View ArticleTaipei decided to supply turbid tap water: Cabinet
Executive Yuan spokesperson Sun Lih-chyun (孫立群) yesterday said that it was the Taipei City Government’s decision to supply turbid water to parts of Taipei following Typhoon Soudelor. The murky tap...
View ArticleWater supply disrupted in Taipei
Water supplies to parts of Taipei and New Taipei City were suspended last night as a result of soaring raw water turbidity caused by Typhoon Dujuan, the Taipei Water Department said. Department Deputy...
View ArticleKo makes NT$1m donation to Pearl S. Buck Foundation
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday attended a fundraising event for the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, making a donation of NT$1 million (US$32,090) using campaign...
View ArticleTyphoon Soudelor: Ko Wen-je vows action on Taipei’s 6,000 fallen trees
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday attributed the multitude of trees felled by Typhoon Soudelor to the tiny planting pits used to plant road trees, which he said was due to the design of the city’s...
View ArticleTaipei mayor heads delegation to the US to explore high-tech businesses
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) on Tuesday next week is scheduled to lead a delegation of business leaders, officials and Taipei City councilors to the US, with Ko’s aides saying that the focus of the...
View ArticleTaiwan: Powerful typhoon kills 2, injuring 66, disrupts power, transport
As fast-moving Typhoon Nepartak makes its way across the Philippines Sea, large waves crash against the breakwaters in Ilan County, eastern coast of Taiwan, Thursday, July 7, 2016. Nepartak is expected...
View ArticleKo’s transportation commissioner quits
Taipei Department of Transportation Commissioner Chung Hui-yu (鍾慧諭) has become the latest official to exit Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je’s (柯文哲) administration. Chung told a news conference yesterday she had...
View ArticleTaipei vice mayor questions reliability of transport reports
Taipei Deputy Mayor Chen Ching-jun (陳景峻) yesterday questioned the realiability of the Taipei Police Department’s statistics on traffic violations and faulted the Taipei Rapid Transit Corp (TRTC) for...
View ArticleWater stations set up across Taipei
The Taipei Water Department yesterday said that it had deployed 120 water stations at public schools across the city that can be used by residents if water supplies are cut off during Typhoon Nepartak....
View ArticleTaipei rail plan panned by adviser
The Taipei City Government’s plan to build a light-rail system from Xinyi District (信義) to Neihu District (內湖) would not solve Neihu’s traffic problems and is wholly unnecessary, Taipei City Government...
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