Notes from Central Taiwan: As Taiwan booms, workers want their cut

A poll earlier this week by Taipei Trust in Democracy Association had challenger Puma Shen (沈伯洋) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ahead by 17 percentage points in the Taipei mayoral race over incumbent Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). Yet the upheaval in the polit