A new report by the Modern Women’s Foundation finds that 1 in 15 individuals in Taiwan has been recorded without their consent, while the lifetime prevalence of image-based sexual abuse is at 10.4%. The majority of such cases involve individuals being secretly filmed, with 6.8% of those 10.4% secretly filmed...
The KMT claimed 250,000 in attendance at a rally against DPP recalls held yesterday on Ketagalan Boulevard. Aerial photographs do not seem to correspond to this claim, but either way, the pan-Blue camp was out in force against the DPP in what was a de facto campaign rally for the pan-Blue camp. Both the KMT and its smaller ally party, the TPP, were present...
A new security measure introduced by KMT legislator Chen Yeong-kang aims to shift security powers to the legislature from the executive. Consequently, the proposal has been criticized by the DPP as an attempt to arrogate further powers from the executive branch of government and to bring this under the control of the KMT-controlled legislature–specifically those powers pertaining to defense...
Civil society groups demonstrated, calling for an end to the killings in Gaza earlier this month. The demonstration began after 2 PM on April 13th outside of the Ximen MRT. After proceeding through the city, following a speaker truck, the march route ended outside of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with an open mic period held...
A summit meeting between KMT chair Eric Chu and TPP chair Huang Kuo-chang resulted in the two parties both vowing to resist the Lai administration. At the same time, it is unclear whether the two parties see eye-to-eye on the major issue that was to be discussed, with no clear agreement having come out of the meeting. The event was a live-streamed, open discussion...
A series of scandals have broken out regarding Chinese espionage cases at high levels of the DPP. Though several cases have now been reported, the highest profile has been that of a former assistant of National Security Council secretary-general Joseph Wu. It, of course, raises concerns that an assistant of Taiwan’s top national security official was implicated in Chinese espionage...
Beijing insists that reunification with Taiwan is inevitable. It presents the project as a peaceful return to a shared destiny, a family reuniting after decades apart. This language is polished and emotionally coded, designed to suggest that force will never be necessary...
The ongoing wave of recalls against all KMT legislators has taken a strange turn, with proposals from some elements of the pan-Blue camp to dissolve the cabinet. If so, this would trigger a legal mechanism that would allow for the legislature to be dismissed and a new set of general elections to be held, if the Premier and the President of the Legislative Yuan agree on this...
The Taiwan Railways Corporation has announced price hikes of 26.8%. The price hikes have already been approved by the Executive Yuan. Nevertheless, the price hikes will be the first time in thirty years that the Taiwan Railways has raised prices. They will take effect on June 23rd...
Sung Chien-liang, the leader of the KMT’s efforts to recall DPP legislator Lee Kun-cheng, has sparked controversy after appearing in court wearing a Nazi uniform. Sung was photographed making a Roman salute, also known as a Nazi salute, and holding a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf...
