A press conference to raise legal funds for four Sunflower Movement demonstrators facing charges related to the encirclement and blockade of Zhongzheng First Police Precinct by demonstrators on April 11th, 2014 was held on Wednesday...
Issues of land evictions and land appropriation have once again seen protest as of late in Taiwan, with increasing calls that the Tsai administration take action to prevent another wave of land eviction cases from sweeping Taiwan, as occurred under the Ma administration...
Was today a victory for organized labor in Taiwan and a defeat for the DPP? In the end, following a grueling day of protest which began at 9 AM and saw no less than three attempts to storm the Legislative Yuan, the committee meeting in which planned changes to the Labor Standards Act were to be reviewed was cancelled. But what now for attempts to stop these changes from being passed into law?...
It has been a chaotic day of protest both inside and outside the Legislative Yuan. With the review of planned changes to the Labor Standards Act scheduled for today and the changes set to take effect in the next few months after passing this review, it was anticipated by many that today would be a day of intensive protests against the DPP attempting to force these changes into law. And indeed, protests today have been intensive, seeing multiple attempts to storm the Legislative Yuan, with more protests planned for night...
Outrage has ensued against the DPP’s compromise of its values with the passage of new changes to the Labor Standards Act, particularly following conflict between DPP legislators and Hsu Yung-ming of the NPP in the Legislative Yuan, during which DPP legislator Chiu Yi-ying lashed out verbally at Sunflower Movement activists...
The Ching Fu scandal continues to unfold, regarding the suspicious circumstances in which a 35.8 billion NTD contract was awarded to the Ching Fu Corporation to construct minesweepers for the navy, something it later proved unable to do. The KMT has taken the unusual tactic of trying to pin a scandal that occurred under Ma Ying-Jeou onto the DPP, however...
Suggestions by Chinese researchers that Austronesian populations in the Asia Pacific did not originate from Taiwan but, in fact, originated from Fujian province are predictable. Nevertheless, this raises some of the issues for scientific research in Taiwan concerning identity contestation...
As with other recent national referendums in Catalonia and Iraqi Kurdistan, are there any other lessons for referendum reform in Taiwan which can be derived from the referendum on gay marriage that was recently held in Australia?...
Donald Trump's recently concluded Asia trip was the site of much bizarre spectacle and pageantry, with Asia Pacific leaders going out of their way to tickle Trump’s ego. This illustrates that Asia Pacific leaders hope to keep Trump pacified through flattery, even when they could otherwise benefit from an American loss of face on the world stage...
The ongoing struggle of Far Eastern Air Transport flight attendants against their management has taken on another layer, with accusations by female flight attendants that they were called on to serve alcohol for clients by their management, something decidedly not part of the job of flight attendants. Union representatives allege that this evidences sexism and objectification of female flight attendants by the management...
