The chair of the Fukang Alliance Party, Chu Hung-yi, is set to begin a ten-year sentence on espionage charges after the loss of a Supreme Court appeal...
Migrant workers at major Taiwanese medical device manufacturer Taidoc marked the Lunar New Year with a series of protests, including a strike declaration on Lunar New Year’s Eve and a post-holiday mobilization—escalating a labor dispute that has drawn national political attention....
Three men who served more than nineteen years on death row again have their case in the courts, with a ruling by the Supreme Court for a retrial in August of last year...
Taiwanese civil society groups held a demonstration earlier this month to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar. At present, Myanmar remains locked in a civil war, with resistance forces of differing backgrounds clashing with the military junta...
US president Donald Trump alarmed after comments suggesting that he would decide whether to suspend arms sales to Taiwan after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in April...
The Chinese government has decided to allow residents of Shanghai to travel to Kinmen and Matsu. Previously, only residents of Fujian were allowed to travel to Kinmen and Matsu, with close to 200,000 Fujian residents traveling to Kinmen and Matsu last year...
A recent letter by Vijay Prashad in Counterpunch is a poor attempt at damage control. In effect, with it now known that Noam Chomsky was an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, as disclosed in what has come to popularly be known as the Epstein files, Prashad attempts to cut ties with Chomsky–this being an effort at damage control shortly after co-authoring a book with Chomsky...
Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by the High Court, the harshest sentence handed down since Beijing imposed the national security law in 2020...