Politics would be behind much of the contestation in Taiwan about whether the ban on Japanese food from areas affected by radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster should be lifted...
With demonstrations of over 100,000 in South Korea this week calling on President Park Geun-hye to step down, political reckoning would be at hand for the Park administration...
Hong Kong would seem to be in the streets again, with a demonstration Sunday against Beijing’s intervention into Hong Kong legislature which saw over 13,000 participate, according to organizers. Namely, Beijing has ruled to bar pro-independence legislators-elect Yau Wai-Ching and Sixtus “Baggio” Leung from taking office after a political crisis prompted by their refusal to properly take oaths to be sworn into office...
In an unsurprising turn of events, the new government led by the bourgeois Democratic Progressive Party has began its assault on the working class by continuing the previous KMT administration’s policy to lengthen the work hours by cutting holidays and refusing to legislate for a full two day weekend...
It seems likely that the Tama Talum case can now be added to the growing list of issues that Tsai Ing-Wen promised to take action on during campaigning but has failed to substantially push for while in office...
