2020/12/31 17:23 (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) BBC News has released a video highlighting major events that occurred in the last 12 months, including four pivotal moments in Taiwan s political timeline. The BBC s video looking back at 2020 was posted on YouTube last weekend, with the description reading that the year has been a reminder of all the courage and love in the world. Besides the global COVID-19 outbreak, the video also features the Taiwan presidential election, the Kaohsiung mayoral recall, the passing of Taiwan s first directly-elected president, and the closure of CTi News. On Jan. 11, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) was reelected in a landslide victory with more than 8 million votes against Kuomintang candidate Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) and People First Party candidate James Soong (宋楚瑜). She set a new record for the highest number of votes received by a candidate in the country s direct presidential
he s a moderate. conservative congressman ron paul is an advocate for small government. he won 23%. former speaker of the house of representatives, newt gingrich and former senator, rick santorum tied with 9%. south carolina is a conservative state. republicans there will hold their primary on january 21st. over the past 30 years, the winner of this primary ended up clinching the party s nomination every time. romney is the frontrunner. he ll close in on the nomination with another win. iranian authorities see it as an ominous pattern and say foreign agents are to blame. the government says a car bomb wednesday killed another of the country s nuclear scientists. nhk world has this report from the capital of tehran. reporter: this area was the sight of a huge explosion today. iranian security authorities say a moving car suddenly blew up. a 32-year-old university professor and another man died. a third person was hurt. investigators say a motorcyclist placed the bomb.
stage, the primary next week in the state of south carolina. romney garnered 20% of the vote, following his win last week in iowa. he s a moderate. ron paul is an advocate for small government. he won 23 bank account. former speaker of the house of representatives, newt gingrich, and former senator rick san tore r santorum tied at 6%. over the past 30 years, the winner of this primary ended up clinching the party s nomination every time. romney s the front runner and will close in on the nomination with another win. iranian authorities see it as an ominous pattern and say foreign agents are to blame. the government says a car bomb wednesday killed another of the country s nuclear scientists. nhk reports from the capitol, tehran. reporter: this area in central tehran was a site of a huge explosion today. iranian security authorities say a moving car suddenly blew up. a 32-year-old university professor and another man died. a third person was hurt. investigators say a m
winner of the latest contest, the new hampshire primary. nhk world has details. tonight we re reporter: romney won 39% of the vote on tuesday. conservative congressman ron paul took 23%. he ran on the platform of a small government. the moderate jon huntsman focuses campaign on new hampshire. he finished third in 17%. former senator rick santorum had a strong showing in the iowa caucus last week. in new hampshire, he tied for fourth with former house of representative speaker newt gingrich. both candidates won 9%. romney is the first candidate to win in iowa and new hampshire in 30 years of republican party races. he told his supporters they had made history. romney ran for the republican party nomination four years ago, but after failing to win in either iowa or new hampshire, he was forced to withdraw from the race. the next primary he will be in conservative south carolina on saturday next week. nhk world, new hampshire. people in taiwan are heading to the polls th