There has been increased scrutiny on long-term elderly care facilities in Taiwan after a fire that killed three late last month. The fire broke out in an illegal long-term care facility located in a residential building in Neihu...
It should have proven of little surprise when Taiwan found itself on the US Department of Labor’s list of goods believed to be produced by forced labor for the first time late last month...
Constitutional reform is set to take center stage as a leading issue in the current legislative session, with a number of key issues on the table. However, it is less clear what the ultimate results of constitutional reform will be, given conflicting and irreconcilable imperatives between the pan-Green and pan-Blue camps...
The KMT surprised yesterday by proposing two resolutions that passed unanimously in the Legislative Yuan, in a rare show of bipartisanship in Taiwanese electoral politics...
DPP legislators Fan Yun and Chang Jui-hsiung recently called for the requirement that elected officials swear their oaths to a portrait of Sun Yat-sen to be dropped. Unsurprisingly, this has prompted backlash from KMT legislators such as Chen Yixin, who accused this of being the DPP’s latest effort to erase symbols of the ROC...
A recent report by the Jamestown Foundation suggested that the Chinese government had begun introducing Xinjiang-style “militarized vocational training” to Tibet, with thousands of Tibetans having passed through such training programs. The report states that over 500,000 Tibetans have passed through such programs—a not insignificant number, seeing as the global Tibetan population is thought to be around 6.5 million...
A number of recent incidents highlight Taiwan’s exclusion from the international community. In particular, reference to even just the name “Taiwan” has sometimes led to strong reactions from China. This occurs at all levels...
A recent controversy regarding the distribution of counterfeit “Made in Taiwan” masks proves the COVID-19 edition of a long-running social issue in Taiwan...