TAIPEI: Taiwan's government has ordered a freeze on the opposition Kuomintang's bank account, officials said Thursday, as part of an investigation into its allegedly ill-gotten political assets.

The order comes as political tensions remain high on the deeply divided island after the Beijing-friendly KMT were ousted by a landslide in January elections.

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