One year after the KMT stoked controversy over pushing through the largest set of budget cuts in Taiwanese history–freezing or cutting 1/3rd of the government’s operation expenses–it appears that the party intends to continue efforts to drastically reduce government funding...
According to the Ministry of National Defense, KMT legislator Ma Wen-chun, the co-chair of the defense committee in the legislature, had scuppered Taiwan’s plans to acquire explosive material RDX through purchase from India by exporting it through the Home-Max Furniture Trading Company. This is not the first time that Ma has been accused of leaking confidential details about the Taiwanese military...
Outrage has broken out after online clips began to circulate of a protester against the Harvest Festival in Hualien who was removed by police, despite only silently holding up a sign...
A recent series of tweets by Elbridge Colby, Under Secretary of War in the Trump administration, lashes out at the idea of “middle powers” supplanting US dominance. Colby claims that “We at [the Department of War] are not concerned that this is a serious possibility. Rather, we are more concerned that a few allies and partners will *think it is* and waste valuable time, money, and political capital on a distraction.”...
Recent reports in international media have highlighted concern over Taiwanese taking out loans in order to pay for tech stocks. Specifically, it may be that the current growth in the tech sector in Taiwan, especially over the AI boom, is pushing young Taiwanese to take out loans with the belief that the tech sector will continually rise...
A mourning ceremony was held in Liberty Plaza on Wednesday night, to memorialize the self-immolation of Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen. Rangzen self-immolated outside of the United Nations headquarters earlier this month. It is thought that Rangzen’s self-immolation was timed to take place one day before China’s new ethnic unity law went into effect, with Rangzen–a well-known Tibetan activist–calling friends by video call shortly before he set fire to himself...
