Shortly before the elections, Thai student activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal came under fire for his resistance to the military draft at a time in which the draft has proved increasingly controversial as a campaign issue...
A report by Hong Kong’s Ming Pao last week stated that at least two current pro-democracy Hong Kong district councilors and several former Hong Kong district councilors have not heard any answer from the Taiwanese government when applying for visas to visit Taiwan, or had their applications rejected. This occurred despite that these district councilors were not intending to flee to Taiwan for asylum, were only hoping to travel with friends and family to Taiwan to vacation, see friends, and sightseeing, and some had successfully entered Taiwan as recently as 2021...
A February article by Michael Swaine of the Quincy Institute in The National Interest, entitled “The Worrisome Erosion of the One China Policy”, proves a fanciful excursion into proposing a grand solution for current US-China tensions over Taiwan...
Concerns have been raised regarding the use of genetic information for more than 600,000 patients for an Academia Sinica research project. Consequently, this led to criticisms from legislator Huang Kuo-shu in February that this could potentially be a violation of the Human Biobank Management Act. Namely, according to the Human Biobank Management Act, patients must consent to their data being used and be allowed to withdraw use of the data at any given time. Some patients may not have signed off consent on their data being used but had their information included in the database...
The multi-year saga of the Taiwan Railways Administration corporatization continues, with the Taiwan Railways Union threatening a strike on May 1st over debt issues faced by the government body. May 1st is commemorated as International Workers’ Day, or May Day, in Taiwan and many other parts of the world...
China has once again begun carrying out military exercises in response to a meeting between a Taiwanese president and a US Speaker of the House. In this case, on Saturday, China announced three days of military exercises following the meeting that took place between US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday in California...
FoxConn founder Terry Gou announced his intentions to run for president earlier this week. Gou emphasized that he believed that “Taiwan needs a great CEO” to serve as its leader...
A number of civil society groups, as well as political parties, have sought to call attention to the current procedure by which justices on the Constitutional Court are picked by the president. Namely, this will be an issue in the near future when four justices that started their terms on October 1st, 2015, are set to retire on September 30th...
The KMT announced late last month that its primary process to decide its presidential candidate for 2024 elections would not take place as an open primary, but through a decision by the party’s standing committee...
Former Taichung legislator Yen Kuan-heng, who is seeking to run as the KMT’s candidate in 2024 once again, was released on bail earlier this week after he and his wife, Chen Li-ling, were taken in for questioning by prosecutors. Yen was released on 10 million NT bail, while Chen was released on 5 million NT bail...
