Changhua became the first city in Taiwan to declare a climate emergency earlier this month following an announcement by Changhua mayor Lin Shih-shen. The announcement was made at a march to call attention to climate change organized by ten NGOs and twenty different medical groups on August 8th...
Issues of forced eviction are back in the news, with outrage from activists and others after attempts by the Taiwan Railways Administration to evict residential households in Tainan for the sake of developing the Tainan Urban District Railway Underground Project...
News that semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC intends to switch to 100% renewable energy has been welcomed by environmentalists. However, this has also seen controversy, given plans by TSMC to construct a solar farm in Pingtung by clearing reforested land...
The Losheng Sanatorium was again in the news earlier this month after a demonstration by Losheng residents and their supporters outside of the Executive Yuan. Losheng residents were demonstrating a new overpass that is to be constructed outside of the sanatorium...
A report by Greenpeace released last week suggests that human rights abuses in Taiwan’s fishing industry continue to take place, with little change having occurred in spite of criticisms in past years from Greenpeace and other environmental and labor NGOs. Taiwan has over 20,000 migrant workers that work on deepwater fishing vessels and one-third of tuna catches in the world come from Taiwanese vessels...
Plans by Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics to build a 9.2 billion USD plastics complex in the St. James Parish in Louisiana should once again call attention to Formosa’s blatant disregard for the environment and human life in other countries...
Two recent demonstrations prove significant, for attempting to raise key issues before the elections by targeting all of the major parties in Taiwan...
Clashes between local residents and police broke out late last month in the Chinese township of Wenlou over plans to build a crematorium in the city of Maoming, which Wenlou is a part of. Wenlou is located in Guangdong, approximately 100 kilometers north of Hong Kong, and has a population of 60,000...
The decision of the Taipei District Court in mid-October to dismiss a lawsuit filed by close to 8,000 Vietnamese fishermen against Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics claim proves an appalling move where Taiwan’s international human rights record is concerned. The ruling was handed down on October 14th...
Hundreds demonstrated in Taipei on November 9th to call for housing justice. The demonstration took place as the culmination of a weeklong camp-out in Taipei’s East District that began on November 2nd, organized by the Housing Right Reform Union...