TaiwanPlus News – News at 18:00, December 26, 2024

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Former Taipei mayor and presidential candidate Ko Wen-je has been charged with accepting bribes in connection with real estate dealings during his time in office. Taiwan's Presidential Office has carried out tabletop exercises to practice a nationwide civil defense response to  an invasion by China. And how the Taiex, Taiwan's main stock index came to outperform all other major Asian markets in 2024. Plus: - Twenty years on from the Indian Ocean tsunami, survivors in Thailand describe what they lost in the disaster and what they have found in the two decades since. - New Taipei residents oppose plans to demolish a centuries-old home next to a historic canal system. - Russia launched a massive aerial attack into Ukraine on Christmas Day, targeting the country's energy infrastructure with the war now in its third winter.