The Central Election Commission has approved a referendum on resuming operations for the recently shuttered Ma-anshan nuclear power plant, while rejecting a referendum on capital punishment...
With the DPP seeking a constitutional interpretation on the KMT’s attempt to block the Executive Yuan’s budget, the KMT has hit out at the move. The KMT has framed the matter as the DPP using its control of the Constitutional Court to block any and all measures pushed for by the KMT...
With the shutdown of the Ma-anshan nuclear reactor, it can be expected that partisan contention regarding nuclear energy will continue rather than stop...
Labor groups rallied at the Ministry of Labor to call for an end to the 12-to-14 year working limit for migrant workers last Sunday, May 18, 2025. They also demanded reform of the long-term retention scheme for “mid-level skilled workers” as well as the promotion of direct hiring and gradual abolishment of the broker system...
On Sunday, May 4th, a Taiwanese Christian group led dozens of participants from different religions and faiths on a 41 km pilgrimage from Zhongli Train Station in Taoyuan City to Taipei City’s Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in solidarity with Palestine...
The Ministry of Labor has halted a plan that would have opened up six new categories of work to foreign students who have graduated from university in Taiwan. These new categories are in nursing, driving buses, cargo inventory, cargo vehicle driving, safety personnel for buses, and inventory management...
Siraya civil society groups took a stand against a move from the KMT to create a new legal category called “Pingpu Indigenous” earlier this month, holding a press conference on the matter. The proposal, which originates from KMT legislator Sra Kacaw, who is Amis, would be a means of denying Siraya recognition as Indigenous...
An escalation of tensions in the Taiwan Strait—whether it transpires as a maritime blockade or a kinetic attack—would bring about disastrous social and economic consequences. Given the importance of the Taiwan Strait to international maritime trade and Taiwan’s critical role in supply chains of strategic technologies, including semiconductors, crisis scenarios consider several grave repercussions. These include immediate disruptions to global economic activity valued at over two trillion dollars, threats to Japan’s energy security, and shortages in the EU, which would exacerbate economic inequality, poverty, and the functioning of critical sectors...
In its quest to diversify its political and economic engagements with the world, Taiwan keeps looking south. At the recent Yushan Forum, Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation Chairman Michael Hsiao proudly announced the launch of six new strategic corridors under the framework of the New Southbound Policy (NSP). This includes government-led initiatives to facilitate cooperation on technology, health, and resilience, as well as think tank, NGO, and youth corridors led by civil society...
Can gender equity issues like women's and LGBTQ rights be discussed along with Taiwan independence? Is there one more important and urgent topic among all the issues concerning different marginalized people? When issues such as feminism and LGBTQ rights are discussed together with social news, there is often criticism that talking about marginalized people is a way to distract people and divert public resources from the issue of Taiwan independence. However, from a decolonial perspective, gender equity and Taiwan independence move in the same direction and support each other...
