A series of child abuse cases has rocked Taiwanese society in the past month, with a number of incidents widely reported on in the media. However, calls to simply increase legal punishments for child abuse, including the suggestion to use capital punishment for cases of child abuse, fail to address the root of the problem ...
Over the past few weeks, there have been multiple cases of high-profile physical violence in Taiwan, ranging from the case of the abuse of a wife and son by a father to the assault on Minister of Culture Cheng Li-chiun by an entertainer. In both of these high profile cases, certain levels of “vigilante justice” through violence have been argued as justified, despite a general public consensus against acts of physical violence in Taiwan. What do these cases say about Taiwan society as a whole?...
Taipei city police dismantled the occupation encampment of indigenous protesters outside Exit 1 of the NTU Hospital station earlier today. Indigenous protesters, however, vow to continue to occupy. Today was the 699th day of the occupation and this was the third dismantlement of the occupation which has occurred to date...
Efforts by Ting Shou-chung of the KMT to invalidate Taipei mayoral elections continue, despite that a recount already affirmed Ko as the victor of 2018 Taipei mayoral elections...
Concerns about Chinese attempts to subtly influence the Taiwanese education system are back in the news. Reports last month indicated that Chinese language textbooks cowritten by China’s Fujian Normal University and Taiwan’s Chinese Classics Association are in use at twenty high schools in Taiwan, mostly concentrated in Taipei and Kaohsiung...
Controversy has broken out after the NPP’s first general meeting for members was held last Saturday in Xindian. Namely, criticisms of the party have arisen from indigenous members of the party and others after a proposal that the central committee of the NPP should have at least one indigenous member and that no gender should have less than one-third representation on the central committee was voted down...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Ivan Gros regarding the Anti-Ke-ai Manifesto and an ongoing print exhibition at the MBMore Gallery concerning the manifesto...
The issue of anti-Semitic symbols openly displayed in Taiwan is again in the news after a betel nut store in Wanhua, Taipei was found to have two Nazi flags hanging in the store...