Posts Tagged ‘KMT’

Taiwan’s President

Friday, December 5, 2008 6:00 Comments

Don’t forget to keep your guesses for the theme contest coming in. I won’t be announcing the winner or correct answer until the end of the month, so there’s still plenty of time to try your luck and plenty of photos to come.

Pictured above are Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), president of Taiwan (ROC), vice president Vincent [...]

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Partying with the Blues

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:29 Comments

The 2008 election season in Taiwan came to an unsurprising conclusion on March 22nd with a resounding win to the KMT (中國國民黨) candidates Ma Ying jeou (馬英九) and running mate Vincent Siew (蕭萬長), ending eight years of DPP rule. Ma and Siew, whose winning margin was 17%, will take office on May 20th, 2008. There’s [...]

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316 Super Sunday

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:20 Comments

Sunday March 16 saw the last weekend rallies for the 2008 Presidential Election take place. In cities all over Taiwan, hundreds of thousands came up to support their preferred party. The DPP’s main rally in Taipei started at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall under the slogan “A Million Giving High-Fives to Reverse the Tide”. The [...]

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