SOCIETY & IDEAS

Zookeepers have called for higher pay, with zookeepers at the Taipei Zoo criticizing stagnant wages for the last thirty years. Currently, zookeepers are usually...

During International Human Rights Day on December 10th, an estimated one thousand migrant workers from Southeast Asia together with Taiwanese labor and human...

Taiwanese social media has seen a wave of posts reacting to the possibility of opening up Taiwan to Indian workers. In particular, the posts are xenophobic in...

The Taiwan Railways Administration was recently fined 300,000 NT for allowing unlicensed staff to drive vehicles used to repair tracks. This is the first time...

The Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan protested outside of a McDonald’s earlier this month to call on the fast-food chain to transition toward using...

Hongkongers—whose freedoms were crushed by the same party who entered into an agreement of ‘no limits’ with Russia in February—are well aware of the fight against...

Civil society groups marked the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre today, as normally takes place in Taiwan annually. As with past years, the...

The governance of Hong Kong is in shambles, and its citizens and workers bear the brunt of it.

The Indigenous occupation in the 228 Peace Memorial Park was dismantled by Taipei city authorities earlier today. The occupation had stood for over 1,800 days,...

Several hundred gathered in front of the Presidential Office today in order to commemorate International Workers' Day, also known as May Day. A color stage was set...

The Tsai administration announced new plans to allow residency from blue-collar migrant workers earlier this week, with the Executive Yuan signing off on a plan...

The 63rd anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day was commemorated last Saturday in Taipei, seeing as the actual anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day falls on a Thursday...

Binaries of “good state capitalism/bad market capitalism” and “undemocratic East/democratic West” hinder radical political imaginaries.

Instead of ceding agency to Western governments, Hongkongers must seek to garner bargaining power through self-empowerment.

The Mainland Affairs Council stated earlier this month that it intends to amend current laws regulating transnational gay marriages in such a manner that...

It has proven odd that leftist thinkers, such as Marxian economist Richard Wolff and Marxist geographer David Harvey, have proven unusually praising of China in...

China Airlines’ labor union reached a deal with management for year-end bonuses to consist of six months’ wages last month. This was a historic high for year-end...

Union groups demonstrated in front of the Executive Yuan earlier this week over pensions, calling for an increase in the minimum contribution to pensions from...

Members of the Bahuan community, who are Bunun Indigenous, demonstrated outside of National Taiwan University earlier this week. The demonstration led to some...

Around sixty drivers from bus operator SF E-bus went on strike late last month, resulting in thirteen routes serviced by the company being unable to operate. Of...

Civil society groups marked the third anniversary of the 2019 Hong Kong protests in Taipei yesterday, with a rally that took place in front of the Bank of China...

Recent comments by Icyang Parod, the head of the Council of Indigenous Peoples, took a stance against legally recognizing Pingpu peoples currently seeking...

The Taiwan Railways Union dropped plans for a strike over the Dragon Boat Holiday late last month, following talks with management

We must contend with more than one state nationalism to see how they all serve the demands of global capital

The Taipei District Court ruled late last month that the 2019 strike by EVA Air flight attendants was legal. This took place after an attempt by the company to...

Civil society groups demonstrated on Friday, March 18th to call for the release of imprisoned Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-che in China. The...

Backlash from pan-Green legislators has led the Mainland Affairs Council to suspend a plan to allow individuals from Hong Kong and Macau to obtain permanent...

A report by the Executive Yuan on the Asia Cement mine on Indigenous land in Taroko Gorge has led to backlash from Indigenous community representatives, after the...

Two labor demonstrations took place outside of the Ministry of Labor on Monday. One drew attention to the care of migrant worker rights, while the other sought to...

We can rely neither on foreign interventions nor local activists and politicians to make it their life’s work to wage Hong Kong’s struggle on Hongkongers’ behalf.

Honouring the memory of 2019 requires us to critically assess where our imagining of how the struggle could develop fell short.

Hong Kong online media outlet Stand News announced that it was ending operations as of today, with the platform’s editor-in-chief Patrick Lam resigning and all...

A recent contest organized by the Ministry of Labor reveals at once the condescending attitude of labor officials to migrant workers in Taiwan. This takes place...

The Kaohsiung Juvenile and Family Court made a historic ruling last month, allowing a gay couple to adopt a child that neither of the two is biologically related...

The corporatization of the Taiwan Railways Administration, changing it from an agency of government into the state-owned enterprise of the Taiwan Railways...

Minister of Health and Welfare Hsueh Jui-yuan said in comments to the media earlier this week that the ministry would propose draft amendments to existing laws to...

Taiwanese female professional soccer players have been left in a lurch after the Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA) abruptly announced that training plans...

Changes to Article 20 of the Act for the Judicial Yuan’s Implementation of Constitutional Interpretation No. 748 cleared review by the Judiciary and Organic Laws...

Taiwan Railways workers may again strike on June 3rd, over the Dragon Boat Holiday, as a show of force against the Taiwan Railways Administration management’s...

On December 25th, 2021, just two days after the University of Hong Kong plastic-wrapped and removed the Pillar of Shame from its campus, Taiwan’s New School For...

Despite its temporary failure, the magnificent 1989 pro-democracy movement has immense historical significance.

New measures that will allow migrant workers to obtain permanent residency will take effect from today. This takes place at a time in which Taiwan faces labor...

Kao Yuan University proves the latest Taiwanese university accused of sending foreign students to work in factories under the auspices of a work-study program. As...

A ruling by the Constitutional Court last week struck down provisions in the ROC constitution tying inheritance of Indigenous status to last names. However, there...

Several hundred rallied at Liberty Plaza yesterday in the largest of a series of solidarity rallies that have taken place in Taipei since late February. The event...

Just as we should not pathologize Covid-19 as a virus of “Oriental” culture, neither should we entertain fantasies of an exceptionally dominant China.

Many Chinese activists disagree with the government, but that does not mean that they should be used as a tool by western media for its propaganda.

Indigenous groups have been critical after a performance held by the Presidential Office as part of new year’s celebrations. In particular, the performance...

Hong Kong held its first “patriots-only” election for the Legislative Council (LegCo) yesterday in an election that was marked by record low turnout. The election...

A significant labor struggle may be upcoming for Taiwanese railways workers. Namely, the Taiwan Railway Labor Union has announced that it may strike next month in...