The KMT’s Kaohsiung mayoral by-election candidate, Jane Lee, also known as Li Mei-jhen, has come under public scrutiny after accusations that she plagiarized her master’s thesis...
President Tsai Ing-wen signaled a renewed focus on constitutional reform for her second term earlier this week in public comments at the DPP’s national congress. Tsai gave these comments in her capacity as chair of the DPP. Likewise, Tsai emphasized that the next major electoral task ahead of the DPP was winning the Kaohsiung by-election, which she phrased as “restoring the glory of Kaohsiung”...
Chinese asylum seeker and political dissident Li Jia-bao, age twenty-two and only until very recently a student, continues to face the possibility of being deported from Taiwan...
For this week's installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with William Yang. William Yang is East Asia Correspondent for Deutsche Welle and Vice President of Taiwan's Foreign Correspondent's Club...
Issues of forced eviction are back in the news, with outrage from activists and others after attempts by the Taiwan Railways Administration to evict residential households in Tainan for the sake of developing the Tainan Urban District Railway Underground Project...
Today, Xi Jinping, in his eighth year as China’s president and seeking to expand his government’s global influence, has loaded all discussions on friendship with Beijing with complicated conditions and fine print. This can be observed in China's recent border clashes with India, as well as with regards to the new national security law passed in Hong Kong...
Concerns have been raised regarding the Chinese government disseminating propaganda and disinformation in Taiwan through unregulated OTT providers in past weeks by members of the pan-Green camp. OTT providers are online streaming services such as Netflix, as distinguished from traditional cable or satellite networks...
The appointment of Chen Chu and 27 other individuals to the Control Yuan was confirmed today, putting an end to weeks of protracted struggle between the pan-Green and pan-Blue camps within the legislature...