Chang Ya-chung has won over ‘deep blue’ KMT members and is leading opinion polls. But would he also make a viable presidential candidate when the majority is Taiwan-centric?

Half a dozen candidates could challenge incumbent KMT chairman Johnny Chiang, including talk show host Jaw Shaw-kong.

Veteran lawmaker says he has not ruled out running for any post as he rejoins opposition Kuomintang party after almost 30 years away.

Stanley Fung tells public ‘democracy salon’ that the party needs to get back on its feet to save the Republic of China.

KMT’s multiple electoral failures are just the tip of the iceberg – the problem is incapable leadership. The party must seek reform or risk irrelevance.

Opposition lawmakers knock down voting booths while supporters scuffle with police outside to protest ‘cronyism’.

Beijing must stop trying to buy Taiwanese hearts and minds with business deals, start talking to Tsai Ing-wen’s administration instead of the KMT, and soften its Taiwan policy.

Han Kuo-yu went from the Kuomintang’s great hope to its big disappointment in just two years, as the pro-independence camp gained momentum.

‘Result should be a warning to all politicians that the people can bestow power and can take it back,’ president says after Han Kuo-yu is ousted as Kaohsiung mayor.

Han had been criticised for running as KMT candidate against the DPP incumbent, Tsai Ing-wen, just months after being elected mayor; if he is ousted, the fallout would mean a stronger DPP hold on Taiwan politics and a possible revamping of KMT leadership.

There are an estimated 200 protesters who have fled to the island on extended tourist visas.

Kuomintang leaders step down after sobering loss, promising to take the result ‘very seriously’.

After Taiwanese voters send a message to Beijing, analysts think it might retaliate, further complicating China’s strategic rivalry with Washington.

President’s approach to Beijing was one of the key issues in the election and victory will be seen as a mandate to continue her approach.

Suspect, who said he had no idea he had been on a wanted list for four years, detained at polling station in Kaohsiung.

‘I suffered a lot in the Cultural Revolution and I know how valuable democracy and freedom is,’ 73-year-old retiree says.

Early results show incumbent president with about 57 per cent of the vote, with main rival back on 38 per cent.

The saying that Taiwan is just a ‘ballot away’ from Hong Kong is timely reminder abroad for those from the self-ruled island to go home and vote.President Tsai has said ‘Today’s Hong Kong; tomorrow’s Taiwan’, ahead of Saturday’s polls, in which she seeks re-election.

Fudan team predicts independence-leaning president will be re-elected on Saturday with nearly 60 per cent of the vote, but research is taken down just hours later.

President’s supporters gather in Taipei on night before election with candidate looking to be on course for re-election.

In the final of a five-part series on Taiwan’s election, we look at how relations between Beijing, Taipei and Washington are affecting the presidential poll.

Foreign Minister Joseph Wu also says mainland China shouldn’t ‘read too much into’ Saturday’s vote.

In the second of a five-part series on a presidential race that will affect Beijing’s relations with Washington as well as Taipei, the Post focuses on the KMT’s candidate.

President Tsai Ing-wen has won support from this group, analysts say, as she plays up ‘sense of crisis’ over Beijing and seeks to position herself as open-minded.