POLITICS & NEWS

Recognise that the Labor Standards Act is missing a clear audible ring on the misery of labour that is not offered voluntarily but without a menace of penalty. Let...

Police brutality become discussed in Taiwan after an incident involving police beating a man causing a disturbance in a 7/11. The 7/11 was located in Zhongli,...

Former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has continued efforts to shift perceptions of his stance on cross-strait relations in recent days. Namely, Ko seems to be trying to...

Me Too-style sexual harassment allegations continue to embroil Taiwan. Accusations remain mostly centered on the political world, though there have been...

Written by Huynh Tam Sang and Phan Van Tim. Liz Truss’s journey is in the limelight as the first ex-British prime minister to set foot in Taiwan nearly thirty...

Written by Aaron Su. In March 2023, yet another round of protests broke out in response to development plans on Taipei’s Shezidao, a flood-prone peninsula on the...

Written by Kuei-Chih Yang. In 2018, the Puyuma Ziqiang train derailed on Taiwan Railway, and then in 2021, the Taroko overturn accident occurred again on Taiwan...

Written by Chung-chun Wang. Since museums are highly and closely related to society and the public with their transformation, the new definition demonstrates that...

Taiwanese Americans had back-to-back reasons to gather this weekend in the Bay Area. 
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FoxConn founder Terry Gou announced his intentions to run for president earlier this week. Gou emphasized that he believed that “Taiwan needs a great CEO” to serve...

The KMT announced late last month that its primary process to decide its presidential candidate for 2024 elections would not take place as an open primary, but...

Former Taichung legislator Yen Kuan-heng, who is seeking to run as the KMT’s candidate in 2024 once again, was released on bail earlier this week after he and his...

Taiwan just had another round of elections last month, and we’re not ready to move on–from thinking about why elections matter.

The by-election to fill the seat formerly occupied by Taipei mayor-elect Chiang Wan-an has taken on an unusual significance with regard to some of the proposals...

The Constitutional Court heard arguments on divorce in mid-November, with regard to current conditions that allow divorces to take place. The hearing was held on...

Questions have been raised about whether pan-Blue independent Chung Tung-chin, who is the current Miaoli county magistrate-elect, may be removed from office and...

Written by Daniel Jia. In late 2021, international investors felt a real chill from China: China’s real estate giant, China Evergrande Group, defaulted on interest...

A scandal has broken out with regard to the DPP’s candidate nomination for the 2024 legislative elections, with Zhongzheng-Wanhua city councilor Wu Pei-yi...

eSwatini's continued diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan) have become an issue that has drawn attention both locally and internationally. This...

A public outcry has ensued after a number of incidents at the National Taiwan University involving racism and sexism among the student body. NTU is traditionally...

Flash mobs involving hundreds demonstrated earlier this month for pedestrian safety in Taiwan. The flash mobs were coordinated to take place across Taiwan, taking...

Written by Wasiq Silan. Is going green hurting Indigenous communities? Not necessarily. However, exclusionary conservation measures create a lose-lose outcome for...

The sometimes blurry line between organized crime and electoral politics, particularly in rural parts of Taiwan, can be observed in the recent sentencing of former...

Written by Doris T. Chang. Among all the gains made by Taiwanese women in the past century, achieving leadership roles in the political arena is perhaps Taiwanese...

Written by Yi-hsiang Shih. Human trafficking is nothing new to the world, yet, the term certainly receives much more attention than ever in 2022 Taiwan. Taiwanese...

Recent comments by China’s ambassador to the Philippines, Huang Xilian, threatened the 150,000 Filipinos living in Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion of...

Two recent incidents highlight how corporal punishment and bullying, sometimes from teachers themselves, continues to be an issue in Taiwan

The multi-year saga of the Taiwan Railways Administration corporatization continues, with the Taiwan Railways Union threatening a strike on May 1st over debt...

A spat has broken out between Hsu Chiao-hsin, the KMT city councilor from Taipei, and senior members of the party. Hsu, known as something of a political firebrand...

Xi Jinping is becoming ever more authoritarian, and the future looks bleak. As Taiwanese and Taiwanese Americans, what should we do?

The Taiwanese government plans to ban TikTok/Douyin in the public sector, mandating that public sector workers cannot use the app, with rising concerns about the...

FoxConn founder Terry Gou has recently begun publicly criticizing the Central Epidemic Command Center that coordinates Taiwan’s COVID-19 strategy over its apparent...

The DPP suffered a loss in the Chiayi mayoral election over the weekend. This adds another defeat to the losses suffered by the DPP in nine-in-one elections

Written by Tsung-Mei Cheng. Chronic financial instability and the difficulty the government has with raising the premium rate to balance the budget aside, the NHI...

The DPP announced a slate of legislative candidates earlier this week, particularly with an aim on highlighting the young candidates it was fielding. This includes...

史瓦帝尼（Eswatini）與台灣的外交關係已成為吸引本地及國際關注的話題。尤其因為史瓦帝尼現在是台灣在非洲唯一的邦交國。許多人認為史瓦帝尼恐將喪失機會參與中國宏大的發展計畫，但另一方面人們也相信台灣是不可隨意拋棄的長期友邦。

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Taiwan was again denied entrance to the World Health Association, the governing body of the World Health Organization this year

Written by Ian Inkster. Liz Truss led her charge into Taiwan on 16 May with the notion of Britain backing a Taiwan move to join the Pacific trade block, the CPTPP,...

Written by The Fengze Strategy. Taiwan’s 2024 presidential election is approaching. Although candidates from different major parties have yet to stand out...

News broke over the weekend that Li Yanhe, the editor-in-chief of Gusa Publishing, had been detained in China. Li is a Chinese national, but is married to a...

Written by Peter C.Y. Chow. By the end of the 20th century, most former colonies had become independent though few qualify as modern states. Taiwan is an...

I had just turned eleven years old when my gonggong passed away. I never got to know him very well; my memories of him are pieced together from summer trips to...

A number of civil society groups, as well as political parties, have sought to call attention to the current procedure by which justices on the Constitutional...

Student representative groups demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Education at the end of March against the ministry not conducting a vote on draft amendments...

Concerns have been raised regarding the use of genetic information for more than 600,000 patients for an Academia Sinica research project. Consequently, this led...

If 2022 was a year for autocrats like Putin and Xi, it’s up to all of us to make 2023 the year for democracy.

The offices of TPP legislator Ann Kao, who is the mayor-elect of Hsinchu, were searched by prosecutors yesterday. Kao and other witnesses were also questioned by...

President Tsai Ing-wen today announced the extension of the military draft to one year from the current four months at a press conference that began at 3:30 PM....

Pan-green legislators from the DPP and NPP held a press conference last weekend to call attention to the issue of unregulated organ harvesting and trafficking from...

Gang-related ties and past criminal charges did not prove to be an obstacle for pan-Blue candidates winning office in the last set of elections. Namely, criminal...