Cannabis Decriminalization Advocates Hold Annual 420 Rally Outside of Legislature

Brian Hioe04/20/2024

Four Decades of Strife and Resistance: A Deep Dive Into What’s Happening in West Papua

Girard Mariano Lopez04/16/2024

Interview: Kawtorpai Church

Patrick Huang04/14/2024

Electricity Price Hikes Likely to Lead to Political Contestation

Brian Hioe04/04/2024

Civil Society Groups Mark Anniversary of Fukushima Disaster Earlier This Month

Brian Hioe03/29/2024

Freeway and High-Speed Rail Proposal by the KMT Stokes Controversy

Brian Hioe03/28/2024

Social Movements

Railway Workers Demonstrate Against Owed Pay, New Work Schedule

Brian Hioe08/17/2020

Members of the Taiwan Railways Union protested outside of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications earlier this month. Workers called for the Taiwan Railways Administration to pay overtime it owes its workers for the months of May and June and demonstrated against a new work schedule that would begin to be implemented next year...

August 2020EnglishLaborSocial Movements6 min read

Solidarity Rally for Demonstrations in Thailand Held in Taipei Main Station

Brian Hioe08/16/2020

A solidarity rally for the ongoing protests in Thailand was held in Taipei Main Station today. Many participants were Thai residents of Taiwan, particularly students...

August 2020EnglishSocial MovementsYouth Movements7 min read

Despite High-Profile Diplomatic Visits, COVID-19 Still Used as a Pretext to Block Hong Kong Refugees

Brian Hioe08/13/2020

Despite that Taiwan’s borders are now open for foreign diplomats, the majority of international students, and medical travelers, the Tsai administration has still done little to assist Hongkongers seeking asylum in Taiwan...

August 2020EnglishSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements15 min read

Apple Daily Arrests, Raid Likely Intended to Have a Chilling Effect in Hong Kong’s Media Environment

Brian Hioe08/10/2020

Jimmy Lai, the owner of the Apple Daily and Next Digital, was arrested today under the provisions of the Hong Kong national security law. Lai’s two sons and at least seven other senior staff members were also taken into custody on various charges. Shortly after Lai's arrest, which took place at 7 AM, over two hundred police were mobilized to search the Apple Daily and Next Digital's offices at 10 AM...

August 2020EnglishSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements8 min read

In Discriminatory Policy Reversal, Chinese Students Prevented from Returning to Taiwan

Brian Hioe08/07/2020

Student demonstrators held a press conference outside of the Ministry of Education today, criticizing the announcement by the ministry yesterday that, while students from foreign countries enrolled in degree programs will be allowed to return to Taiwan, Chinese students will be excluded...

August 2020EnglishSocial MovementsYouth Movements9 min read

As Government Targets Overseas Groups, Election Delay Puts Hong Kong in Unprecedented Legal Territory

Brian Hioe08/04/2020

News broke last week that the Hong Kong government intended to disqualify a dozen pro-democracy candidates from the Hong Kong Legislative Council elections, which were originally scheduled to take place in September...

August 2020EnglishSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements7 min read

Political Crackdown in Hong Kong Continues, With Disqualification of Twelve Pro-Democracy Candidates

Brian Hioe07/31/2020

Twelve pro-democracy candidates running in the Hong Kong Legislative Council elections were disqualified from running yesterday. The Hong Kong government previously suggested that it delay elections by one year, using the current COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to do so. However, the Hong Kong government may be hedging its bets by also disqualifying pro-democracy candidates beforehand, eliminating choices apart from pro-Beijing candidates...

EnglishJuly 2020Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements6 min read

Student Activist Arrests in Hong Kong Suggest Dangerous Implications Regarding Security Law

Brian Hioe07/30/2020

Four students, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, were arrested yesterday by the Hong Kong police under charges of sedition...

EnglishJuly 2020Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements8 min read

Anger After Forced Evictions for Urban Railway Development in Tainan

Brian Hioe07/21/2020

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...

EnglishEnvironmentalJuly 2020Social Movements7 min read

TSMC Solar Farm Controversy Occurs Along Familiar Grounds

Brian Hioe07/16/2020

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...

EnglishEnvironmentalJuly 2020Social Movements5 min read

Arts/Culture

Calling For a Return to Sinocentrism in the Name of Opposing It: Responding to ‘Reconsidering Sinophone Studies’

Re/writing COVID-19 in China: Solidarity as Metonym for Historical Truth?

How Taipei Became the Home of Live Comedy During the Pandemic

International

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

After Nine Years, Second Ma-Xi Meeting Occurs in Beijing

DPP Aims to Strengthen Laws Regarding Treason, Leaks

Interviews

“Trying to Gain More Autonomy in Our Narrative”: An Interview with René Hà on Stamped

Reflecting on an Ongoing Genocide: A Conversation with the Interviewees of All Static & Noise

Interview: David Novack and Janice Engelhart on All Static & Noise

Politics

Taiwan and China Continue to Contest Air Traffic

No, the DPP is Not About to Remove Chiang Kai-shek Statues En Masse

Tsai Administration Seeks to Reassure on US Support After Aid Package