Anger has broken out after New Taipei arrested and detained a migrant worker who was taking out the trash on the basis of suspicion of her being a “runaway” migrant worker...
NPP legislator Chiu Hsien-chih, also known as Handy Chiu, recently held a joint press conference with the Taiwan International Workers’ Association regarding the use of migrant workers for MRT construction in New Taipei....
In 2016, when the Taitung County government announced they were stopping construction of a baseball court on the Zhiben wetlands—the traditional territory of the Katratripulr tribe of the Beinan Indigenous people—the tribe did not anticipate that they would split into factions during their next fight against a new construction project on their land. ...
If level three advisory alert has shown us anything, it is that Taiwan has made clear its two-tier, bilateral approach to its foreign residents: one composed of lack of labor, discrimination, and equity protection. Notably, the majority of Miaoli’s Han residents were able to shop for groceries out and about while “second-tier” and “lesser” Southeast Asian migrant workers remained locked inside of their home quarantines after being blamed and scrutinized for the outbreak of COVID in the area...
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...
