TaiwanPlus News – 18:30, November 22, 2022

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With local elections days away, TaiwanPlus News takes a look at some of the women who have blazed a trail for gender equity in the country's politics and talks to Annette Lu, Taiwan's first female vice president. We also meet the leader of the Chinese Unification Promotion Party, a minority party that advocates for cross-strait unification under Beijing's favored "one country, two systems" model. And prosecutors say a Taiwanese army officer took monthly bribes from China starting in 2019, promising to surrender in the event of a Chinese invasion. Also: - Ko Tzu-hai, a man who became known for unusual and colorful protests in a range of causes, has died aged 66 - Taiwan's export orders dropped by more than 6% year-on-year in October amid weak global demand - The first flock of black-faced spoonbills, an endangered migratory waterbird, has arrived to winter in Taiwan's south