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TESTING ELECTION TEMPERATURE: The survey also showed approval for Hou You-yi over William Lai in a presidential election was 47.4 percent to 32.7 percentBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter

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By Lin Liang-sheng and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerIt would be a tight contest between Vice President William Lai （賴清得）, New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi （侯友宜） and former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je （柯文哲） if next year’s presidential election involved the three potential candidates, a public opinion poll released yesterday said.

By Chen Yu-fu and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerAbout 60 percent of respondents did not blame the government for import restrictions imposed on Taiwanese goods by Beijing, while nearly three-quarters supported extending mandatory military conscription to one year, a poll released yesterday by the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation showed.

EYE ON PRESIDENT: The survey showed that 48.6 percent approved of President Tsai Ing-wen’s management of cross-strait ties, while 43.3 percent did not approveBy Chen Yu-fu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer

State-funded English-language streaming service TaiwanPlus is to start broadcasting on terrestrial television and through Chunghwa Telecom’s multimedia-on-demand service on Oct. 10 after its broadcast application was yesterday approved by the National Communications Commission (NCC). The NCC assigned TaiwanPlus to use the frequency block between 542 megahertz (MHz) and 548MHz — designated for use by the

Half of Taiwanese support independence, according to the results of a poll released yesterday by the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation, which also found that President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) support rating fell by 7 percentage points. Fifty percent of respondents supported independence, 25.7 percent supported maintaining the “status quo” and 11.8 percent supported unification, while 12.1 percent had no opinion, did not know or refused to answer, the foundation said. Support for indep...

Almost 50 percent of respondents to a survey said that former Hsinchu City mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) should withdraw from Taoyuan’s mayoral election after his National Taiwan University master’s degree was revoked on grounds of plagiarism in his thesis. The Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation asked participants if Lin should withdraw if accusations of plagiarism were substantiated. Forty-eight percent of the respondents said “yes,” 28.3 percent said “no,” and 23.7 percent did ...

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

As Ukrainians defend their country from a Russian invasion, an overwhelming majority of Taiwanese responding to a Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation survey said they think Taiwan’s mandatory military service is too short. The survey — conducted by the foundation on Monday and Tuesday last week — found that 76.8 percent of respondents aged 20 or older disapproved of Taiwan’s mandatory military service, with 75.9 percent saying that it should be lengthened to one year as a measure to shor...