Keelung LNG Terminal Contention Recalls Longstanding Dynamics

Brian Hioe

Pan-Blue Camp Criticized for Celebrating Sport Victories While Cutting Funding

Brian Hioe

Animal Rights Groups Call for New Measures

Brian Hioe

Government Contemplates Raising Barriers for Hongkongers to Reside in Taiwan Yet Again

Brian Hioe

Despite Executions Continuing to Take Place in Taiwan, KMT Calls for Referendum on Capital Punishment

Brian Hioe

66th Anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day Commemorated with March in Taipei

Brian Hioe

Social Movements

Civil Society Groups Ask Control Yuan to Investigate Ministry of the Interior for Maintaining Compulsory Surgery

Yo-Ling Chen
This morning at 10 AM, civil society groups held a press conference outside of the Control Yuan to condemn the Ministry of the Interior’s (MOI) inaction in changing its 2008 executive order (內政部97年11月3日內授中戶字第0970066240號令) requiring sexual organ removal surgery to change one’s legal gender, despite a total of six administrative court rulings in the past three years that clearly condemn the surgery requirement. After the press conference, a group of civil society group representatives and transgender community members met privately with a Control Yuan official to cordially request that the Control Yuan open an investigation on the MOI for delaying the abolition of compulsory surgery...
EnglishGender/SexualityMarch 2025Social Movements10 min read

Media Fixation on Johanne Liou Illustrates Continued Sexism, A Decade After the Sunflower Movement

Brian Hioe
Former Sunflower Movement participant Johanne Liou is to be deported from the US next month, facing charges related to drug trafficking and fraud. The arrest was conducted by ICE, with Taiwanese authorities stating that they requested Liou’s extradition. Liou did not appear at the New Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office in 2023, which resulted in charges against her...
EnglishFebruary 2025Gender/SexualityPoliticsSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements4 min read

Dark Indonesia: The New Student Movement Stirring in Southeast Asia

Girard Mariano Lopez
Thousands of Indonesian students across the country are taking to the streets protesting the current Prabowo administration. This comes as the controversial former military general reaches five months in office, with great dissatisfaction with the current political situation across the country. Various issues from police reform, a 3-kg LPG controversy, mining licenses, land clearing in West Papua, and a re-evaluation of Prabowo’s ‘fat ministry’ are riveting the nation–but at the heart of public anger is the “budget efficiency policy” of Prabowo...
EnglishFebruary 2025Social MovementsYouth Movements5 min read

Court Rules in Favor of EVA Air Over Demand for Compensation for 2019 Strike

Brian Hioe
The Taoyuan Flight Attendant's Union has stated that it will seek a constitutional interpretation after a ruling by the Taiwan High Court that required the union to pay EVA Air compensation for losses incurred during a 2019 strike. As the decision can no longer be appealed, the Taoyuan Flight Attendant’s Union likely plans to escalate in this way...
EnglishFebruary 2025LaborSocial Movements5 min read