Transportation workers in Taiwan continue to be overworked, as reflected in reports that bus drivers working for the Taoyuan Bus Company were made to fake their working hours by their employers...
Protests took place in Hong Kong yesterday, on the day that Legislative Council elections were originally supposed to take place before the announcement in July that elections would be delayed for a year...
Arrests and acts of police violence took place yesterday night in Hong Kong, on the one-year anniversary of the Prince Edward MTR attacks, which took place last year on August 31st...
There has been increased focus on the issue of migrant fishermen abuses in Taiwan in the past month as a result of a Control Yuan probe into a 2019 report by Greenpeace ...
For the past month, a broad political movement, primarily led by Thai youth, has advanced a series of increasingly provocative protests against the military government...
For this week's installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with Lev Nachman. Lev Nachman is a Fulbright Research Fellow in Taiwan and a Ph. D candidate in political science at UC Irvine currently conducting fieldwork in Taiwan...
Discourse in Taiwan has long been one that contrasted the pro-unification left with the pro-independence camp, implying a lack of (traditional) leftist politics on the part of pro-independence forces. This has been exacerbated by pro-unification left voices having often been given more prominence in the English-speaking world and taken as representing the Taiwanese left. Since many of these issues can be traced back to the 1970 Baodiao Movement, a preliminary look at the history of postwar Taiwanese leftism since then can help shed a light on some of the paradoxes and shortcomings of both the pro-unification left and the pro-independence camp, as well as teach valuable lessons for alternatives for a Taiwanese left moving forward...
Changhua became the first city in Taiwan to declare a climate emergency earlier this month following an announcement by Changhua mayor Lin Shih-shen. The announcement was made at a march to call attention to climate change organized by ten NGOs and twenty different medical groups on August 8th...
One distinctly pervasive, and shockingly permissive, form of genocide is that of cultural genocide—in particular, the extinction of languages, whether actively by force or as a set of passive policies. Linguistic genocide whittles away at bits and pieces of society until there is nothing of a people remaining...
Members of the Taiwan Railways Union protested outside of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications earlier this month. Workers called for the Taiwan Railways Administration to pay overtime it owes its workers for the months of May and June and demonstrated against a new work schedule that would begin to be implemented next year...