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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 independence is the new mainstream opinion, regardless of which party is in power, foundation chairman Mi...

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Chih-chien (林智堅) should withdraw from Taoyuan’s mayoral election after his National Taiwan University master’s degree was revoked on grounds of plagiarism in his thesis.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 not share an opinion. “The results convey a clear message: When National Taiwan University confirm...

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 shore up the country’s defenses against Chinese aggression, foundation chairman Michael You (游盈隆...