Two recent incidents highlight the continued issue of police brutality in Taiwan. In particular, there are many cases in which police carry out acts of violence against suspects while seeking to avoid accountability...
Ukrainians in Taiwan, joined by others supportive of their cause, rallied today to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since then, tens of thousands have perished as a result of Russia’s military aggression, and the war seems far from over...
Three Chinese asylum seekers were sent back to Malaysia in November, though this news was only reported on earlier this month. The incident proves revealing about the lack of transparency and clear oversight over asylum procedures that occurs as a result of Taiwan’s lack of formal asylum procedures...
The Tsai administration has defended a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked between the Taiwanese government and the Indian government about allowing Indians to work as migrant workers in Taiwan. Namely, in past months, as the two governments finalized the signing of the MoU and the finalization of the draft MoU was reported on in Taiwan, there was a wave of backlash against the prospect...
A political controversy about a banned meat additive has become an object of partisan contestation between the KMT and DPP, with the KMT boycotting a report to the legislature by Premier Chen Chien-jen yesterday. The controversy led to back-and-forth before the Lunar New Year between the health authorities of the Food and Drug Administration and the Ministry of Health and Welfare...
A drowning incident involving two individuals on a Chinese speedboat in Kinmen territorial waters could prove a case that ramps up tensions between Taiwan and China in the coming days, if the Chinese government leverages on the incident for nationalist outrage...
Ahead of the inauguration of Lai Ching-te as the new president, the KMT has continued to call for the revival of the Special Investigation Division of the Ministry of Justice...
Taiwanese civil society groups held a press conference in the legislature on February 2nd to call attention to the third anniversary of the coup in Myanmar, which overturned the democratically elected government and instituted a military regime...
Environmentalists called on the government to take further action against carbon emissions ahead of the Lunar New Year. In particular, the Environmental Justice Foundation and other groups filed a constitutional lawsuit calling for swifter action and a clearer timeline for action on environmental goals. The Climate Change Response Act was criticized for not having short-term and medium-term goals in terms of action to be taken on climate change...
