“Leaving Gaza was surreal. As we left the buffer zone from Gaza, people care little about throwing away half a bottle of soda, or flicking a cigarette, like how things are in a normal world,“ said Dr. Wu. According to Dr. Wu, just about 10 kilometers away from the blockade, only one out of the four sinks at Dr.Wu’s workstation in Nasser Hospital supplied a somewhat stable source of clean water. According to CSIS, Oxfam International, The United Nations Children’s Fund, BBC, CNN, there were barely any sanitation standards for water outside of hospitals because of Israel’s targeted strikes on Gaza’s infrastructure....
“Do legislators have the right to paralyze the Constitutional Court?” the former Constitutional Court justice Huang Hong-Sia asked the protestors at Peace Memorial Park on 17th October. To her rhetorical question, her audience chanted “No!”...
"China intentionally release COVID virus?" reads the title of one of the plaque boards on the information device placed in front of Taipei 101 at a juncture that saw heavy tourist traffic. Consisted of multiple plaque boards, a screen and speaker on auto replay, free pamphlets, and a mock 101 on top, the art device resembled a news booth. The information, listed in multiple languages, included China’s human rights abuses, calls to end CCP, but also patently unfounded conspiracy theories about the Chinese government intentionally releasing the COVID virus that put China itself in a 2 years lockdown, and an economic coma from which it has yet to fully recover....
The young audience exclaimed when the dancers of Cal Y Canto dance group wheeled a giant goldfish kite to swoop over them, aghast with wonder. Cal Y Canto‘s performances at the New Taipei City Children’s Art Festival had created a following for themselves. Their performances between July 14 to July 20 at the Children’s Art Festival regularly gathered a crowd of youthful audience every night at 8:30pm. The dancers saw their free for all performances for children as a way to “recover the public space"...
China challenges the legitimacy of international law while the US bends international law to its interest. In the Shangri-La Dialogue, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations politely voiced their concerns regarding the deteriorating international rules-based order between the two superpowers. ...
Taiwan has distanced itself from the Israel-Gaza conflict since the very beginning of the Gaza war. Namely, Taiwan’s callouts to Gaza are few and far between...
