Taiwan's Tsai romps to 2nd term win in presidential race

TAIPEI - Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party won a second term in Saturday's presidential election, defeating her main rival by a wide margin and setting the stage for a continued standoff with rival China.The Central Election Commission said Tsai received almost 8.2 million votes, a record high since the island's first democratic presidential election in 1996.Han Kuo-yu of the pro-unification Nationalist Party (KMT) garnered around 5.5 million votes, it said at a press conference.Voter turnout was 74.9 percent of the island's 19 million eligible …READ FULL ARTICLE