Tens of thousands marched through the streets of Taipei in support of Hong Kong today, despite heavy rain. Organizers claimed that over 100,000 participated...
As part of an international week of actions taking place from September 20th to September 27th worldwide, Taipei's iteration of the Global Climate Strike took place today in spite of rainy weather...
Demonstrations have continued over the past week in Hong Kong, frequently involving clashes with police. Last weekend marked the sixteenth consecutive week of protests. Looming over demonstrations at present is Chinese National Day commemorations set to take place on October 1, which will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China...
Despite intense demonstrations demanding a fair resettlement plan in front of the Executive Yuan, Daguan was finally demolished in early August. Residents’ houses and family businesses may be gone for good, but the buds of knowledge and power that emerged through their resistance will continue to bloom and grow...
The Megaport Music Festival, likely Taiwan’s largest indie rock festival, announced earlier this month that the festival would be coming to an end after sixteen years. It is widely known that the festival, which is traditionally held in Kaohsiung, is shutting down due to pressure from Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu of the KMT...
Protests continued in Hong Kong over the weekend, with a large march drawing tens of thousands on Sunday despite police refusing to approve the march beforehand. The weekend also saw clashes between pro-Beijing protesters and pro-democracy demonstrators and incidents of pro-Beijing triad members attacking demonstrators to little action from Hong Kong police...
Recent events in Australia caused by anxieties over Chinese influence should also prompt concern regarding xenophobia toward Chinese students and other minority groups...
China confirmed yesterday that it is currently detaining Morrison Meng-chu Lee, a Taiwanese citizen, on charges of “endangering national security”. Lee disappeared after entering Shenzhen from Hong Kong on August 18th for a business meeting...
The DPP has still made no moves to establish any formalized process for applying for asylum in Taiwan, despite a high-profile visit in the last week to Taiwan by key protest figures from Hong Kong such as Joshua Wong, Lester Shum, and Eddie Chu...
Clashes with police in Hong Kong took place again this weekend, with clashes taking place in Admiralty, Causeway Bay, Mong Kok, Tai Po, Sha Tin, and other locations from Friday to Sunday. Many clashes involved police deploying in MTR stations, indiscriminately targeting both demonstrators and civilians...
