The Taiwan Railways Corporation has announced price hikes of 26.8%. The price hikes have already been approved by the Executive Yuan. Nevertheless, the price hikes will be the first time in thirty years that the Taiwan Railways has raised prices. They will take effect on June 23rd...
Sung Chien-liang, the leader of the KMT’s efforts to recall DPP legislator Lee Kun-cheng, has sparked controversy after appearing in court wearing a Nazi uniform. Sung was photographed making a Roman salute, also known as a Nazi salute, and holding a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf...
Cambodia has sent 179 Taiwanese fraud suspects to China. This is thought to be a gesture of goodwill by Cambodia to China, as a gesture of recognizing China’s claims of sovereignty over Taiwan...
A legal proposal by 18 DPP legislators would raise the number of years required for Hongkongers to obtain permanent residency in Taiwan to six years...
The KMT has been criticized over proposals, which mostly stem from Kinmen legislator Chen Yu-jen, to establish a free trade zone in Taiwan’s outlying islands. This would take place through amending Article 18-1 of the Offshore Islands Development Act...
Unsurprisingly, the tariffs that US President Donald Trump has threatened the world with have led to strong reactions in Taiwan. In particular, Trump originally suggested that Taiwan would face 32% tariffs, having previously lashed out at Taiwan for “stealing” the US semiconductor industry and suggesting that Taiwan should pay the US for its defense...
A controversy has again broken out regarding the pro-unification left in Taiwan. In particular, this scandal revolves around the strong stance that pro-unification left groups have taken in defense of “Yaya in Taiwan”, the Chinese Douyin influencer who expressed support for the military unification of Taiwan and China. Defense for Yaya has largely been framed as defense of freedom of speech–and against the DPP’s curbs on freedoms of speech in the name of security...
Shares for the Taiwan Stock Exchange, or Taiex, plunged yesterday by 9.7% at opening. What ensued was the largest one-day drop on record for Taiex, triggering a circuit breaker that briefly halted trading. Tuesday proved similar, with steep drops at open...
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is the first Filipino and the first Asian to be arrested by the International Criminal Court. He has been accused of orchestrating a series of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) that occurred during his time as mayor of Davao City (2011–2016) and continued under his anti-drug campaign as president (2016–2019). According to the ICC Prosecutor, this falls under what is called crimes against humanity—killings or exterminations committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population...
Literary translation is having a moment, particularly in Taiwan. You might have seen the recent, glowing New York Times profile of Tilted Axis, a British publisher specializing in translated literature, or witnessed the frenzy over Lin King and Yang Shuang-zi (楊双子)’s National Book Award win for King’s brilliant translation of Taiwan Travelogue. Riding that wave is Ká-sióng (the Taiwanese Hokkien romanization of 假想), a collection of five newly translated Taiwanese short stories recently published by Strangers Press in partnership with the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, National Museum of Taiwan Literature, and Books from Taiwan. The stories in Ká-sióng, each of which has a different author and translator, are almost dizzyingly diverse, from body horror in an Indigenous Atayal village to sci-fi memory manipulation in a futuristic, flooded Taipei. The stories–which are presented in arbitrary sequence–offer a polyphonic, cacophonous vision of Taiwanese fiction and culture...
