What New Zealand and Taiwan Can Learn From Each Other About Disaster Resilience

Tom Wilson

Civil Society Groups Demonstrate Lack of Progress on Social Housing

Brian Hioe

Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary, Protest Held to Call for Release of Hong Kong Activists

Brian Hioe

Escape Room Death Should Remind of Need to Improve Workplace Safety

Brian Hioe

Thousands Demonstrate Against KMT Cuts to Defense Spending

Brian Hioe

At Start of May, Counter-Protestor Assaulted at Taiwan Solidarity Party Demonstration Against Migrant Workers

Andy Liu

Social Movements

Civil Society Groups Criticize Continued Attempts to Remove Transgender Draft Exemptions

Yo-Ling Chen
At 10:15 AM this morning on Transgender Day of Visibility, the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights co-hosted a press conference with Amnesty International Taiwan, Student Alliance for Gender Equality, Taiwan Non-binary Queer Sluts, and the Intersex, Transgender and Transsexual People Care Association condemning the Ministry of the Interior for procedural issues regarding changes to Taiwan’s conscription criteria that removes blanket exemptions for transgender people. Press conference attendees rallied around the slogan: “Procedural injustice and unreasonable amendments! Reject inappropriately raising draft exemption thresholds for transgender people!” Overall, the press conference revealed striking details about the Ministry of the Interior's sidelining of civil society and transgender community concerns over the past three and half months of negotiations, putting into question whether there is any hope for changing course...
EnglishGender/SexualityMarch 2026Social Movements11 min read

Tibetan Uprising Commemorations Harassed by Disrupters

Brian Hioe
Tibetan Uprising Day was commemorated in Taipei on Saturday, March 7th outside of the Zhongxiao Fuxing SOGO. Tibetan Uprising Day is commemorated annually to memorialize a protest by around 10,000 Tibetans on March 10th, 1959 to demonstrate against the CCP’s annexation of Tibet. The protest was subsequently cracked down on by Chinese military forces. This year marked the 67th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day...
EnglishMarch 2026Self-DeterminationSocial Movements4 min read

Solar Energy Debate Points to Pan-Blue Stance Against Renewables

Brian Hioe
Last year, the pan-Blue camp went on the attack over the destruction of 145,000 solar panels by Typhoon Danas. In particular, pan-Blue media outlets, as well as KMT legislators, alleged that this shows government corruption in terms of the push toward solar power. More broadly, the pan-Blue camp has used the destruction of the solar panels to allege that the DPP is only interested in green power because of graft, and to cast doubt on green energy as a whole. This proves telling about the contentious energy debate in Taiwan at present...
EnglishEnvironmentalMarch 2026PoliticsSocial Movements4 min read