Taipei 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...
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