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By Jason Pan / Staff reporterLin Hsing-er （林杏兒） of the Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） might be denied her post as a Taipei city councilor after the Shilin District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday filed a civil case regarding the Nov. 26 election in Taipei’s first electoral district.

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) deputy secretary-general Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) yesterday requested that party executives offer a public apology for revealing the name of the KMT member who filed a complaint about alleged illicit activities in the KMT Central Standing Committee vote on March 5. The KMT has been rocked by allegations that Legislator Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁) bought votes so that he could play a leading role in the party’s decisionmaking body. “Many people have heard of the vote-buying scandal involving KMT Central Standing Committee members. In my recent trips across Taiwa...

Taipei, Jan. 26 (CNA) The Kuomintang (KMT) on Wednesday expressed its "resolute opposition" to lifting Taiwan's ban on food imports from Japanese prefectures affected by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in the absence of what it called science-backed measures to guarantee the safety of such imported products.

The Chinese military’s record number of incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) has undermined peace in the region, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday, warning Beijing against further actions that could accidentally spark conflict across the Taiwan Strait. “Chinese aggression has severely undermined regional peace and stability,” Tsai said at the weekly meeting of the Democratic Progressive Party’s Central Standing Committee. “Beijing must refrain from going too far and accidentally sparking conflict across the Strait.” A total of 149 Chines...