
Fourteen days before the nine-in-one election, fifteen DPP county mayor candidates gathered at Shen Boyang’s campaign headquarters and called on voters to return to their hometowns to vote.
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Fourteen days before the nine-in-one election, the Democratic Progressive Party nominated a total of 19 candidates for municipal and county mayors across the country. Fifteen of them met at the Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang's campaign headquarters yesterday.
Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang of the Democratic Progressive Party and Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party nominees for county and city mayors joined together yesterday to call for "Hometown Way, for Hometown, Youth Return, Vote For Home!" to return to their hometowns to vote. (Photo by reporter Tu Jianrong)
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DPP county mayor candidate calls for return to hometown to vote Shen Boyang: One polling station may only be a few votes away
Fourteen days before the nine-in-one election, the Democratic Progressive Party has nominated a total of 19 municipal and county mayor candidates across the country. Fifteen of them gathered at the Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang's campaign headquarters yesterday. By introducing the "hometown flavor" of each county and city and playing a video containing the sound effects of high-speed rail and train departures, they called in unison "Hometown Way, for Hometown, Youth Return, Vote For Home!" and called on voters to return to their hometowns to vote.
For details, see DPP county mayor candidate calls for return to hometown to vote. Shen Boyang: One polling station may only be a few votes away.

The Executive Yuan has sent a letter to all agencies across the country. The year-end work bonus is scheduled to be paid on January 27, 2027. In addition to the 1.5-month year-end work bonus, most military, public and educational personnel can still receive a 1-month performance bonus according to current regulations. The total 2.5-month bonus will be recorded before the Lunar New Year next year.

U.S. President Trump is expected to visit China next week to attend the APEC summit in Shenzhen and meet with President Xi Jinping. This will be the third meeting between the two this year. Before the meeting, the U.S.-China Business Council held its first formal meeting, and the two sides reached a consensus on tariff treatment of non-sensitive goods worth US$30 billion in each direction and agricultural market access.

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan, who is seeking re-election, went to Raohe Night Market to sweep the streets on the evening of November 13. He walked 300 meters for two hours and went to the time-honored restaurant "Dong Fa Hao" for a meal. He interacted with the people, Speaker Dai Xiqin, and legislators Xu Qiaoxin, Li Yanxiu and others, showing his high popularity.

The Legislative Yuan passed the amendments to the Gender Equality Work Law and the Employment Insurance Law on the third reading. Maternity leave will be increased from eight weeks to fourteen weeks, and paternity check-up and paternity leave will be increased from seven days to fourteen days. The application period for childcare leave without pay will be relaxed to children under nine years old. Parents can receive a total of eighteen months of subsidies. The upper age limit for insurance coverage will be deleted at 65 years old. It is expected to be implemented from New Year's Day next year.

The Police Department held a pre-election national video conference, calling for strengthening the investigation of bribery and criminal gangs, and strictly preventing deep fake news from interfering with the election. As of the day before yesterday, the project had been investigated and transferred to 717 people in 149 cases of bribery, 90 people in 68 cases of election violence, and 574 people in 489 cases of other obstruction of elections. According to other statistics, as of the 9th of this month, 248 cases of gangs involving 1,431 people were seized, 278 illegal firearms were seized, 104 money laundering houses were uncovered, and illegal gains of more than 1.45 billion yuan were seized.

The Police Department held a pre-election national video conference, calling for strengthening the investigation of bribery and criminal gangs and strictly preventing deep fake news from interfering with the election. In response to legislator Gao Jin Sumei's "big accountant" Zhang Junjie being implicated in a communist espionage case and absconding, the Police Department planned a nationwide raid on gang activity sites. It targeted nearly 900 strongholds of gangs such as the Bamboo Alliance Gang, the Sihai Gang, and the Tiandao League. It also cracked down on foreign forces colluding with gangs to assist key criminals in their escape and transnational surveillance to suppress the public.