The two and a half hours of the first presidential candidate debate took place on December 27th. Given that polling shows Eric Chu and James Soong lag far behind Tsai Ing-wen, good faith and a miracle would be needed to assume the debate would turn the tables at all. So, unsurprisingly, this debate was largely empty talk....
Although the display of nationalistic sentiments is not a new concept to the sporting world, recent sports matches in Hong Kong highlight the tense relationship between Hong Kong and China in light of changing political realities...
Freddy Lim’s recent concert at Freedom Plaza has drawn international attention on the basis of the unusual nature of a political rally which was in part a concert by a heavy metal band...
26 years ago, on October 15, 1989, on October 15, 1989, a group of Asian filmmakers at the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Yamagata, Japan published the "Asian Documentary Filmmaker’s Manifesto"...
That the Thai government manages to bring Taiwanese television series Justice Bao to Thai screens again and again is revealing. The central ideals of Justice Bao are what the present military regime would like to instill within Thai citizens...
The rally for migrant workers' rights which took place in Taipei this past Sunday points to how the role of migrant workers in Taiwan remains precarious...
South Korea may be poised on the brink of a general strike. We can situate current events in South Korea within broader regional trends of neoliberal economic conditions and the actions of resurgent authoritarian governments in East Asia...
