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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 16 July 2019

Taiwan party picks mayor over ex-Foxconn chief for 2020 run

By RALPH JENNINGS years of Nationalist leaders,
Associated Press she said, "Han Kuo-yu is the
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Tai- only candidate who has a
wan's main opposition really strong appeal to the
party picked a pro-China lower middle-class voters."
populist mayor Monday as Tsai has vociferously stood
its candidate for the 2020 up to China since taking of-
presidential race against fice in 2016 and particularly
an incumbent who often since Chinese President Xi
bashes Beijing. Jinping advocated earlier
The Nationalist Party said this year that China gov-
Han Kuo-yu had won the ern Taiwan under the same
presidential primary after "one country, two systems"
opinion poll results gave setup as it rules Hong Kong.
him a 45 percent support Millions of Hong Kong citi-
rating. He defeated four zens have protested in the
other candidates including streets since June against
former Foxconn Technol- elements of Chinese rule.
ogy chairman Terry Gou Tsai's ruling Democratic
and will face incumbent Progressive Party suffered
Tsai Ing-wen in the January a major setback in the No-
election. Kaohsiung city mayor Han Kuo-yu raises hands during a media conference after winning the vember local elections that
Han has vowed to make candidacy of the opposition of the Nationalist Party (KMT) for the upcoming presidential elections gave Han the mayoral job.
peace with China, and at the party headquarters, Monday, July 15, 2019, in Taipei, Taiwan. Voters said then that they
signed deals with four Chi- Associated Press felt dissatisfied with Tsai's
nese cities in March to sell management of the econ-
5.2 billion New Taiwan dol- shirt sleeves rolled halfway class and the lower mid- CEO of the Taiwan-based omy, but her anti-China
lars ($167 million) worth up. dle class without paying Chunghua 21st Century stance has boosted her rat-
of Taiwanese agricultural "Han mobilized the middle money," said Joanna Lei, Think Tank. Over the past 12 ings this year.q
products. Tsai has refused
to negotiate with China
on Beijing's condition that Building collapse kills 12 in India after monsoon rains
the two sides belong under
one flag. Associated Press the building when it col-
China and Taiwan have NEW DELHI (AP) — Eleven lapsed. One civilian also
been separately ruled soldiers were among a doz- was killed.
since 1949, but Beijing still en bodies recovered from Several soldiers were
claims sovereignty over the the debris of a three-story among the 31 people res-
island and occasionally building that collapsed af- cued after the collapse
threatens use of force to ter monsoon rains hit a hilly occurred in Solan, a town
take it, if needed. A Taiwan area of northern India, offi- in Himachal Pradesh state.
government public opinion cials said Monday. The area is 310 kilometers
survey in January showed Rescuers were looking for (195 miles) north of New
that most Taiwanese prefer two to three people still un- Delhi.
self-rule. accounted after Sunday's More than 70 NDRF rescu-
In November, Han was collapse, said Gaurav Sriv- ers and 40 fire officers have
elected mayor of the port astav, an official from the been clearing the rubble,
city of Kaohsiung, a tradi- National Disaster Response using earth movers, drillers
tional ruling party strong- Force, or NDRF. and gas cutters.
hold, largely by pledging Fire official Raja Ram Bha- The building shook and col- Rescuers of India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)
to improve the local econ- gate said the dead includ- lapsed in no time, the Press look for survivors after a three-story building collapsed in mon-
omy. A rising star, he is a ed 11 army soldiers who Trust of India news agency, soon rains near the town of Solan, a hilly area 310 kilometers
charismatic speaker who were having a party in a or PTI, quoted an injured (195 miles) north of New Delhi, India, Monday, July 15, 2019.
often appears with his blue ground floor restaurant in soldier as saying.q Associated Press