The legislature voted down the Executive Yuan’s motion to reconsider the controversial legislative powers this afternoon. This took place after two days of arguments between the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps in the legislature...
In commemoration of this year’s Eid-al Adha, or the feast of sacrifice, dozens gathered at Taipei’s Grand Mosque to hold a candle-lighting ceremony honoring the more than 15.000 Palestinian children that have been murdered since Israel’s siege on Gaza began last October 2023...
Civil society groups held a press conference earlier this month to call for justice for miners involved in disasters that took place in 1984. This included the Taiwan Labour Front as well as the Taiwan Association for Human Rights...
Hongkongers and allies demonstrated in Taiwan this afternoon to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the 2019 protests in Hong Kong. This was termed “Freedom June.” The protest was bookended by rain at its start and beginning, with heavy rain warnings issued across Taiwan today...
Today we bring you photos from yesterday's commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Liberty Plaza from contributor PS...
Demonstrators gathered in Liberty Plaza in Taipei tonight to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. According to organizers, by around 7:30 PM, there were 2,000 participants in the demonstration...
The “Bluebird Movement” evidenced many characteristics of an occupation-style movement, even if it was not truly one. After all, though the name “Bluebird” took its name from how the main street on which the protests took place, “Qingdao East Road”, is visually similar to “bluebird” in Chinese, the protest took the form of day-long demonstrations starting when the contested legislative powers were discussed in the legislature...
The "Bluebird Movement" protests have made their mark on Taiwan, even if this was not successful in preventing the third reading of the legislative changes pushed for by the KMT and TPP.
At present, we are putting a call out to readers to contribute their photo and video documentation of the demonstration through this Google form, in the interests of archiving the protest. Here are some of the contributions to date. Thank you again to all who have contributed so far...
The protests against the KMT and TPP’s efforts at expanding legislative powers did not result in preventing the bill’s third reading yesterday. This occurs despite the fact that over the course of two weeks, the demonstrations went from around 300 individuals to over 100,000 in the short course of a week....
