Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Vote counting completed at 5:41 p.m. with DPP's Tsai Pei-hui winning the by-election with 45,218 votes. Her main rival, KMT's Lin Ming-chen, received 43,293 votes.
TRADE
<strong>Deng meets with UK officials</strong>
Minister Without Portfolio John Deng (鄧振中) last month met with senior British economic and trade officials, US news site Politico reported yesterday. They discussed bilateral trade issues and Deng asked for advice on Taiwan’s bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, a spokesperson for the Taipei Representative Office in the UK was quoted as telling Politico. China reacted by warning the UK that “Taiwan is an inseparable part of China,” the report added. The British Department for International Trade, which had not made the meeting public, confirmed that it had met with