With the Taipei High Administrative Court ruling that the dismissal of Mckinney Tsai from his position on the board of directors of Mega Bank by the Financial Supervisory Commission was illegal, this deals a blow to efforts aimed at fighting financial corruption in Taiwan...
A memorial ceremony commemorating the one year anniversary of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo’s death was held in Taipei today, with the unveiling of a statue of Liu...
With Super Typhoon Maria passing by Taiwan yesterday, most parts of northern Taiwan outside of Taipei and Keelung have declared a typhoon holiday for today...
Tensions between Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je and the DPP are on the rise, with Ko lashing out at the DPP on several recent occasions. This may not be too surprising, seeing the DPP has decided to nominate its own candidate for 2018 mayoral elections, Pasuya Yao, instead of endorsing Ko as it did in 2016 mayoral elections...
Despite the DPP passing the pension reform bill for public servants, teachers, and military veterans it has struggled to push through legislature for some time, one expects that challenges to the bill will continue in the future...
Recent calls for the death penalty to be applied to two murderers illustrate it continues to be hard to overturn social attitudes which see capital punishment as just retribution for violent crimes in Taiwan...
Anger has followed suit after the winner of a contest to design a new Taiwanese identification card had only 46 votes, disregarding the most popular design, which had 97,498 votes. The winning design was perceived as pro-independence in nature, due to its titling...
Controversy has broken out over actions by Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation director Wu Yin-ning. While opponents of Wu allege corruption or at least incompetence, defenders of Wu allege that Wu has been caught in the crossfire between the KMT, DPP, and Taipei mayor Ko Wen-Je...
A recent five-day visit to Taiwan late last month by Haitian president Jovenel Moïse ended with Haiti walking away with a 150 million dollar investment by Taiwan in Haiti’s power grid...