Focus Taiwan
Date: 01/06/2020
Taiwan is holding its presidential and legislative elections on Jan. 11, and the candidates are traveling the country this week to make their final appeals to voters.
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who is running for re-election, opened a five-day campaign tour on Monday in her hometown Fenggang Village in Pingtung County in southern Taiwan.
Tsai later traveled through Pingtung, Kaohsiung and Tainan, and she is scheduled to appear Monday night at a rally in Chiayi, which is being hosted by DPP legislative candidates in the county.
Meanwhile, Kuomintang (KMT) presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) started Monday with a visit to the National Palace Museum, accompanied by Chou Kung-shin (周功鑫), a former president of the museum. [FULL STORY]