Priminent Taiwanese medtech company Taidoc Technology Corporation has fired all leaders of its company-based union, all of whom are Filipino migrant workers in Taiwan. Such termination marks a major escalation in what workers describe as weeks of union crackdowns...
Activists on Saturday staged a demonstration outside the Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition, accusing dozens of participating companies of profiting from Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza and urging the government to block arms-related exports linked to alleged war crimes...
About 100 members of civil society groups marched through Taipei on Saturday urging voters to reject a referendum on restarting Taiwan’s last nuclear power plant...
Students rallied Monday at National Taiwan University to denounce a talk by U.S. defense-technology entrepreneur Palmer Luckey, accusing him of being a “radical Zionist” whose company profits from alleged Israeli war crimes...
Labor groups rallied at the Ministry of Labor to call for an end to the 12-to-14 year working limit for migrant workers last Sunday, May 18, 2025. They also demanded reform of the long-term retention scheme for “mid-level skilled workers” as well as the promotion of direct hiring and gradual abolishment of the broker system...
On Sunday, May 4th, a Taiwanese Christian group led dozens of participants from different religions and faiths on a 41 km pilgrimage from Zhongli Train Station in Taoyuan City to Taipei City’s Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in solidarity with Palestine...
On Sunday, dozens of migrant workers in Taipei gathered at the city’s central train station to protest gender violence against migrant women as well as raise awareness about the plight of Palestinian women and children through a flash mob performance. This was in celebration of “One Billion Rising”, an annual campaign against rape and gender violence held in 60 countries worldwide. The name comes from a statistic that within their lifetime, at least one in three women across the world will have encountered gender violence, which totals to around one billion people...
Thousands of Indonesian students across the country are taking to the streets protesting the current Prabowo administration. This comes as the controversial former military general reaches five months in office, with great dissatisfaction with the current political situation across the country. Various issues from police reform, a 3-kg LPG controversy, mining licenses, land clearing in West Papua, and a re-evaluation of Prabowo’s ‘fat ministry’ are riveting the nation–but at the heart of public anger is the “budget efficiency policy” of Prabowo...
Local and international community members across Taipei gathered on Sunday at Liberty Square in Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall to commemorate the 42,000 Palestinian lives that have been murdered by Israeli offensives in the past year, as well as the hundreds recently killed in recent Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon. On the morning of October 7th, organizers from the Taiwan Alliance for a Free Palestine also held a flash mob outside of the Israeli Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei in the World Trade Center...
Girard Mariano Lopez is a first year Filipino undergraduate at National Chengchi University, and a volunteer at various human rights and civic organizations in the Philippines and Taiwan.
