Taiwanese civil society groups called for the release of Hong Kong activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung on June 1st outside of Taipei’s Ximending shopping district...
A 29-year-old woman surnamed Wu died earlier this month after being accidentally strangled at an escape room. Wu was playing a part in the escape room, pretending to be a ghost who had died by hanging...
Thousands demonstrated on Sunday against the KMT’s cuts to defense spending, which reduced spending from 1.25 trillion NT to 780 billion NT. The main organizer of the demonstration was the Economic Democracy Union, the politically progressive social movement organization that played a key role in the 2014 Sunflower Movement and 2024 Bluebird Movement...
At the start of May, during Labor Day weekend, the right-wing Taiwan Solidarity Party (TSP, formerly known as the Taiwan Solidarity Union) held two rallies in Taipei to protest against migrant workers from South and Southeast Asia. The first rally, held in the morning before the Labor Day march, featured a man tabling with an SS insignia on his arm, and a student was arrested for throwing a water balloon at TSP chairwoman Chou, Ni-An (周倪安). The second rally, held the next day, which the TSP, working with the International Association of Family and Employers with Disabilities (IAFED, also known as Taiwan Employers Association), dubbed “employer’s day,” followed up with the physical assault of a counter protester by a man donning a TSP vest...
Taiwan's offshore wind programme is one of the most ambitious in Asia outside China. Capacity targets run into double-digit gigawatts. A domestic supply chain is being built. European developers have anchored projects off the western coast. The strategic ambition is real...
A recent letter published in Counterpunch, signed by individuals ranging from Ajamu Baraka to Vijay Prashad, proves a remarkable episode in authoritarian apologia from the left...
The Historic Second Global Summit on Indigenous Peacebuilding convened on April 25–26 at Thomas Berry Place in Jamaica Estates, New York, bringing together Indigenous leaders, policymakers, scholars, and activists from around the world. The Summit was organized under the theme “Indigenous Leadership for Protecting People, Peace, and Planet,” highlighting the role of Indigenous leadership in responding to global crises. ...
Nineteen people were killed in a massacre by the Philippine military after an alleged “encounter” began at four in the morning and did not end until three in the afternoon. The fighting reportedly ended at a fish pond where the bodies of RJ and a few other civilians were found—all of whom had bandoliers and guns planted on them right after (in an awkward position, by the way) to justify that they had all been combatants and therefore rightfully gunned down...
Public sector workers, civil servants, and unions of state-owned enterprises demonstrated in late April to call for an increase in pay. This included groups that traditionally are not allowed to have unions, in that public sector workers are not allowed to unionize. This has been a matter of controversy in past years, particularly after deaths of firefighters that led to calls for firefighters being allowed to unionize...
