A historic recall of Kinmen County Council Speaker Hung Yun-tien failed earlier this month. The recall was the first of its kind, in that those exist on the books for municipal county speakers to recall a county speaker under Article 46 of the Local Government Act, this was never before attempted since the law was passed in 1999...
China announced that it would be ending its ban on Taiwanese pomelos earlier this month. The ban had been in place since August 2022. Nevertheless, the Chinese government’s framing of the move indicates that the move is aimed at politically influencing Taiwan through economic means...
Appointments to the Constitutional Court are likely to be fought between the pan-Blue camp and DPP in the coming months. Namely, the terms of seven of the fifteen justices are set to end in October...
"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 TPP continues to face controversy, with party leader Ko Wen-je’s release without bail now revoked. As such, Ko is again held incommunicado. Ko was sent directly to prison this time and is not being held at the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office. Ko is in a cell with three other inmates and authorities have emphasized that Ko will be treated as any other prisoner would...
Taoyuan mayor Simon Chang has been criticized for disregarding the results of an online poll to name new MRT stations that are part of the Green Line of the Taoyuan MRT, which will be opened in 2026...
The Economic Democracy Union, one of the primary coordinating groups of the Bluebird Movement, has sought to call attention to upcoming legislation advanced by the KMT that could prove dangerous to Taiwan’s sovereignty...
Chinese rapper Wang Yi-tai was denied permission to perform in Taiwan last month by the Mainland Affairs Council. This was on account of several reasons, including that Mercury Entertainment, which represents Wang, began selling tickets on July 1st...
