The KMT has continued to militate against the DPP on the issue of the Tsai administration’s decision to lift restrictions on imports of American pork into Taiwan. In the KMT’s latest protest action last week, the KMT threw pig guts and intestines at Premier Su Tseng-chang during a report to the legislature. Some scuffling also took place between pan-Green and pan-Blue legislators during the report...
Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam were sentenced to jail today, receiving sentences of thirteen-and-a-half months, ten months, and seven months in jail respectively...
Measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will be strengthened today, with mask-wearing again mandated in eight forms of public venues including public transportation, educational facilities, government offices, entertainment establishments, places of worship, and other places...
On November 23rd, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan held the inaugural consultation meeting for the “2030 Bilingual Nation” policy, initiating what has been part of the DPP’s stated policy platform since Lai’s premiership in 2018. This process has reignited discussion over the role of English in Taiwanese society, and whether Taiwan should become a “bilingual” country...
An attempted murder-suicide case that took place in New Taipei earlier this year has resulted in a death sentence for a thirty-year-old woman who killed her six-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter before attempting to kill herself. The verdict, which can still be appealed, was made by the New Taipei District Court...
The Judicial Yuan has announced that it has completed a draft bill that would lift some of the currently existing limits on transnational same-sex marriages in Taiwan. The draft bill will next be reviewed by other government bureaus, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Justice, and the Mainland Affairs Council...
