Protests in Hong Kong seem unlikely to end in the near future, with Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam yesterday once again refusing to fully withdraw the extradition bill yesterday...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je recently found himself embroiled in controversy during a trip to Shanghai, conducted as part of the city-based cross-straits exchanges with Shanghai that he has pushed for since he became Taipei mayor...
Demonstrations have broken out in Yangluo, a residential district in the Chinese city of Wuhan, against a waste-to-energy disposal plant that the city government intends to construct against the wishes of local residents...
Hundreds of thousands demonstrated outside of the West Kowloon rail station today, the first major demonstration of protests against the extradition bill to take place on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong harbor. The protest had the unusual focus of attempting to outreach to Chinese nationals. Following what is now a familiar pattern, after nightfall, clashes with police broke out ...
The EVA Air flight attendants’ strike came to an end yesterday, with an agreement signed between union representatives from the Taoyuan Flight Attendants’ Union and EVA management. Flight attendants will resume work at 12 AM on July 10th...
Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu became the object of popular mockery last month after a series of incidents involving Kaohsiung high schoolers mocking him publicly at award ceremonies for his presidential ambitions...
Much attention as of late has been focused on Chinese efforts to influence Taiwanese media through either directly channeling funds into Taiwanese media outlets or spreading disinformation. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the KMT had long conducted such manipulation of the media in Taiwan, well before the Internet age, by drawing on traditional clientelist networks. This is visible in unresolved scandals in Hualien regarding former county commissioner Fu Kun-chi...
What should be self-apparent is that in the aftermath of the brief occupation of LegCo in Hong Kong Monday, a discursive battle is currently being fought between pro-democracy activists and government officials regarding the framing of the occupation attempt. Hong Kong government officials have, unsurprisingly, attempted to depict activists as a violent and irrational mob. On the other hand, pro-democracy activists have pointed to the fact that demonstrators were pushed into taking an extreme form of action because of the refusal of the government to back down, that demonstrators were not violent, and that there is no comparing the physical violence used against peaceful demonstrators by riot police to property damage within LegCo...
EVA Air flight attendants currently on strike held a demonstration on Ketagalan Boulevard tonight. The demonstration, which began at 7 PM and ended at around 10:00 PM, had likely in the vicinity of four hundred to five hundred individuals...
