TAIWAN: Ma Ying-jeou wins election by reduced margin

President Ma Ying-jeou and the Kuomintang (KMT) have won Taiwan’s presidential election with a reduced majority of only 51.6 per cent of the vote, down by around 6 per cent on the last election in 2008. Meanwhile, the main opposition party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), represented by its female leader Dr Tsai Ing-wen, scored…