OVER 100,000 Taiwanese protesters converged on the presidential office in Taipei on August 3rd, accusing the defence ministry of cover-ups and calling for justice.
Other SDP candidates include a lesbian-rights activist who is expected to run in a glitzy commercial district of Taipei, possibly against a stuffy KMT lawmaker who opposes gay marriage.
Although the DPP's candidate lost the mayorship of Taipei to the opposition Kuomintang, the ruling party narrowly held on to Kaohsiung.The electorate in the Indonesian province of Aceh had its first chance to vote directly for a governor and other officials.
Being a doctor (he is chairman of the traumatology department at National Taiwan University Hospital), not a politician, appears to have helped him.The DPP decided not to field a candidate in Taipei after the party's polls showed that Mr Ko was more popular within the DPP than any candidate it could field itself.
Taipei fell 6.9% over the week and reached its lowest level for 18 months.
But to Taiwan this would amount to surrender.The stand-off might have gone on almost indefinitely but for the intervention of the Clinton administration in ways which Taipei has seen as prejudicial to its position.
At present the tallest is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which was completed in 2010 and, at 828 metres, shot past the previous record-holder, the 508-metre Taipei 101 tower.
Last November, a Taiwanese publisher hosted a lavish banquet in Taipei as the centrepiece of an academic conference on Mr Cha's writing.
And a long-awaited high-speed rail link between Taipei and Kaohsiung will be inaugurated in October 2005.
The foreign ministry in Taipei says there has been no communication with Beijing over these plans.
NEARLY three days into their occupation of the debating chamber of the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan's parliament, in Taipei, dozens of activists, mostly students, show no sign of flagging.
