Recent reports suggest that Taiwanese writer Roson, who lives in China, has been sentenced to twelve years imprisonment. It is unclear as to what reasons Roson, whose real name is Liao Meng-yen, has been imprisoned...
The KMT and TPP have begun to lean into calls to restart talks over the CSSTA. The CSSTA was the controversial trade agreement that the KMT hoped to ink with China during the Ma administration, resulting in the outbreak of the 2014 Sunflower Movement...
An investigation by the Liberty Times, the major newspaper of the pan-Green camp and Taiwan’s most widely read newspaper, showed that 30% of the 456 borough chiefs in Taipei had taken constituents on trips to China that were subsidized by the Chinese government this year...
Controversy has broken out about the DPP and TPP vice presidential candidates regarding allegations about whether they hold US citizenship. In particular, the DPP is fielding former representative to the US, Hsiao Bikhim, as its vice presidential candidate. On the other hand, the TPP is fielding legislator Cynthia Wu as its vice presidential candidate. The KMT is fielding pan-Blue firebrand and media personality Jaw Shaw-kong as their vice presidential candidate, though he has not become embroiled in any citizenship controversy...
Last weekend, hundreds of motorcyclists demonstrated outside of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC), calling for heavy motorcyclists be allowed to use highways, phase out the ban on motorcyclists using inner lanes, and the current two-step turn that motorcycle and scooter riders need to use...