Referendum

IGNORANCE OF VOTERS: A poll showed that 53.3 percent of respondents were unaware that the referendum would be held alongside the nine-in-one elections.

Three polls released in the past two weeks — by the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation, the Chinese Association of Public Opinion Research and online media Convergence Media — showed that 60 to 78 percent of respondents were not worried about large-scale live-fire military drills launched by Beijing in the wake of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei on Aug. Beijing is expected to continue flexing its muscles ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) National Congress in the autumn, stoking fears of a cross-strait military crisis. A member of the British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Kearns in June proposed an amendment to the Higher Education Bill, which would give the government the power to shut down China’s Confucius Institutes over Police in Changhua County said the 41-year-old female suspect, surnamed Chang (張), has been detained on suspicion of working with a Chinese human trafficking ring, and is alleged to have sent 50 Taiwanese over a five-month period to Cambodia, after posting adverts online promising high-paying jobs. 26, the first time a referendum is to decide whether the Constitution will be amended. It garnered 1,519 valid responses at a confidence level of 95 percent and has a margin of error of 2.51 percentage points.