Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has stirred up controversy after recent comments calling for the construction of a bridge between Kinmen and Xiamen. Kinmen is the closest part of Taiwan to China, given that it is only ten kilometers away from Xiamen, and the two are accessible by ferry from each other...
Keelung civil society groups and local politicians have been critical of plans to build a liquified natural gas receiving station by Taipower, Taiwan’s state-owned energy utility. Protests around the issue took place earlier this month...
Issues of corruption continue to be endemic in Taiwanese politics. This can be observed in a number of incidents. In many cases, these charges return to embezzlement or fraud related to loans...
Local residents demonstrated late last month against plans by the Chung Shyang Hospital to relocate to a building in the Farglory Industrial Park in Zhonghe, New Taipei. The Farglory Industrial Park mostly consists of electronics and printing factories...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je and his administration have come under fire with accusations that PTT accounts run by Taipei city government employees are used as part of a “cyber-army” aimed at improving Ko’s public image. PTT is an Internet forum popularly used in Taiwan, sometimes compared to Reddit in other parts of the world. The criticisms of Ko, as advanced by pan-Green politicians, broke out into controversy after a report by the Taipei city government...
Taiwan has expressed dissatisfaction after China acted to block imports of grouper last Friday, alleging that it had found oxytetracycline and other prohibited chemicals in excessive amounts in grouper imports from Taiwan. For its part, Taiwan has suggested that China’s actions are politically motivated, similar to China blocking imports of pineapple, wax apple, and custard apple, as a way to hit back at Taiwan’s agricultural sector...
Reports from Hong Kong’s Ming Pao and local media outlets suggest that the Apple Daily Taiwan has a buyer. This is reported as being Hong Kong businessman Kenny Wee and Singaporean 17LIVE co-founder Joseph Phua...
Civil society groups marked the third anniversary of the 2019 Hong Kong protests in Taipei yesterday, with a rally that took place in front of the Bank of China building in Xinyi...
Icyang Parod, the head of the Council for Indigenous Affairs, expressed regret for recent statements made by Indigenous Taiwanese celebrities supportive of unification with China in comments late last month...