A New York Times correspondent, Vivian Wang, has been expelled from China after the newspaper published an interview with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te...
A number of Taiwanese NGOs have withdrawn from the international crowdfunding platform GlobalGiving over the recent announcement that Taiwan would be listed as “Chinese Taipei” going forward...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was recently asked about possible plans to source workers from Eswatini. Eswatini is Taiwan’s only diplomatic ally in Africa...
The saga of the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation has taken another strange turn, with an investigative team convened to look into allegations of financial wrongdoing by two former employees instead clearing them, but questions raised about the integrity of the investigation...
Thousands demonstrated on Sunday against the KMT’s cuts to defense spending, which reduced spending from 1.25 trillion NT to 780 billion NT. The main organizer of the demonstration was the Economic Democracy Union, the politically progressive social movement organization that played a key role in the 2014 Sunflower Movement and 2024 Bluebird Movement...
At the start of May, during Labor Day weekend, the right-wing Taiwan Solidarity Party (TSP, formerly known as the Taiwan Solidarity Union) held two rallies in Taipei to protest against migrant workers from South and Southeast Asia. The first rally, held in the morning before the Labor Day march, featured a man tabling with an SS insignia on his arm, and a student was arrested for throwing a water balloon at TSP chairwoman Chou, Ni-An (周倪安). The second rally, held the next day, which the TSP, working with the International Association of Family and Employers with Disabilities (IAFED, also known as Taiwan Employers Association), dubbed “employer’s day,” followed up with the physical assault of a counter protester by a man donning a TSP vest...
Taiwan's offshore wind programme is one of the most ambitious in Asia outside China. Capacity targets run into double-digit gigawatts. A domestic supply chain is being built. European developers have anchored projects off the western coast. The strategic ambition is real...
Taiwan Travelogue, written by Yang Shuang-zi and translated by Lin King, has again put Taiwan on the international stage. After winning the US National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2024, the book has now won the International Booker Prize...
A recent argument between Presidential Office secretary-general Pan Meng-an and KMT legislator Weng Hsiao-ling in the legislature reminds of how Taiwan’s constitutional crisis continues...
An attempt by the KMT and TPP to impeach President Lai Ching-te failed earlier this week. This was not surprising, seeing as the two parties did not have the votes to impeach Lai. As such, the impeachment was defeated...
