COVID-19 clusters broke out among migrant workers at electronics factories in Miaoli over the weekend, with 243 workers at three factories testing positive. This has, unfortunately, led to the rollout of discriminatory policies against migrant workers...
Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen pardoned Indigenous hunter Tama Talum yesterday. This was Tsai’s first use of the presidential pardon during her two terms as president, as well as the seventh time that the pardon was used in ROC history...
Earlier this month, before the uptick in COVID-19 cases that has led to near-lockdown conditions in Taipei and New Taipei, 400 members of the Puyuma people protested outside of the Taitung county government building on May 7th against plans to develop a solar farm. In particular, protesters claim they were not adequately consulted before the county government went ahead with plans to build the solar farm, and that they were excluded from the decision-making process...
Indigenous activists and their supporters demonstrated outside of the Ministry of the Interior yesterday morning, calling for Indigenous name recognition...
As demonstrations against Asian hate are staged across the United States, about eighty people gathered this morning at 8:30 AM in front of Taipei City Hall for a march against anti-Asian racism and misogyny in light of the rise in hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islands in the United States and the March 16th Atlanta spa shootings, which claimed the lives of eight people, six of which were Asian women...
An incident at a college basketball game involving a Sengalese-Taiwanese player being called the N-word by a member of the opposing led to strong reactions earlier this month, including comments by Premier Su Tseng-chang, who stated that racial discrimination was unacceptable in Taiwan...
Indigenous activists held an overnight sleep-in outside of the Judicial Yuan yesterday night, with a hearing scheduled to take place on the Tama Talum case today...
