Taipei mayor Chiang Wan-an traveled to Shanghai for the annual Twin Cities Forum last weekend. The event is held annually as a city-based exchange that takes place between Taipei and Shanghai, as sister cities...
The People's Liberation Army has announced a new set of military drills to take place around Taiwan starting tomorrow. These drills are entitled “Justice Mission 2025.” This breaks from preceding Chinese military drills, with two drills in 2024 entitled “Joint Sword 2024-A” and “Joint Sword 2024-B” in May and October. It is understood that “Justice Mission 2025” will practice blockades of ports and other key strategic infrastructure in Taiwan, with live-fire drills taking place in five maritime and airspace zones...
The KMT has again opened itself up to criticism, with a series of recent trips to China by seven KMT legislators. The seven legislators are Weng Hsiao-ling, Lin Szu-ming, Yeh Yuan-chih, Cheng Cheng-chien, Chiu Jo-hua, Lu Yu-ling, and Tu Chuan-chi. Former KMT legislator John Chiang, the father of Taipei mayor Chiang Wan-an, as well as KMT Mainland Affairs director Chang Ya-ping, too, were in attendance...
Over the past two weeks, multiple LGBTQ+ groups have issued statements criticizing draft amendments to conscription criteria that would end blanket exemptions for transgender and intersex people, requiring them to instead complete an alternative substitute service. While alternative service involves conscripts being placed in institutions serving public welfare such as government agencies, police and fire departments, schools, hospitals, and even research institutions, it still requires a 26-day basic training camp, which is typically held at the Chengkungling Recruit Training Center (成功嶺新訓中心) in Taichung. In their criticism of the draft amendments, LGBTQ+ groups emphasized the deleterious effects to physical and psychological well-being that transgender and intersex conscripts face, even in alternative service, especially given the mandatory basic training component...
Taiwan's ongoing constitutional crisis remains unresolved, as the impasse about the Executive Yuan refusing to sign a fiscal allocation bill passed by the Legislativ/e Yuan continues...
A mass stabbing that killed three and injured eleven has shocked Taiwan. The attacker, Chang Wen, later killed himself in an apparent suicide after falling from the roof of the Eslite Spectrum Nanxi in Taipei, with the injured or killed mostly in the vicinity of Taipei Main Station or Zhongshan...
New legislation advanced by the KMT has been accused of seeking to restore CtiTV to coveted primetime spot Channel 52. CtiTV, the previous occupant of the Channel 52 slot, was taken off air after losing its broadcast license...
Taiwan may be on the verge of a constitutional crisis, with Premier Cho Jung-tai refusing to sign legislation passed by the legislature. Cho’s refusal to sign such legislation occurs with the support of President Lai Ching-te...
In a rare case, there have been calls on President Lai Ching-te to pardon an eighty-year-old woman who killed her paralyzed son. This occurred apparently due to the burden of care, the woman having cared for him for over 50 years...
