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Taiwan shares rise following DPP election win

Taiwan stocks rose 0.75 percent to 7720.13 points as of 0507GMT on Monday (January 18), after the Democratic Progressive Party’s Tsai Ing-wen won the presidential election over the weekend on the island. Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which is less friendly to China, won a convincing victory in both presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday (January 16), in what could usher in a new round of instability with China, which claims self-ruled […]