Plans by Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics to build a 9.2 billion USD plastics complex in the St. James Parish in Louisiana should once again call attention to Formosa’s blatant disregard for the environment and human life in other countries...
去年11月,美國羅徹斯特大學(University of Rochester)有學生發現,原本與其他國家的國旗並列在赫斯特大廳(Hirst Lounge)的中華民國(Republic of China,即台灣)國旗,突然被移到了香港國旗旁。在此前,中華民國國旗一直與其他國家的國旗,依字母順序並列在所有旗幟中。此外,在羅徹斯特大學的網站上,學校官方先是創造了一個既具創意又令人疑惑的類別「次國家」,並將台灣和香港歸類其下,然在遭受各方抗議後將其改為「特殊自治區和其他地區」(「次國家」一詞在11月20日仍存於其URL鏈接)。後於11月21日,羅徹斯特大學似乎採取的妥協解決方案是將所有國旗分為「聯合國認可的國家」和「其他國家和地區」,並將台灣和香港置於「其他國家和地區」之下。奇怪的是,儘管科索沃(Kosovo)和台灣一樣沒有被聯合國認可,其網站仍將科索沃列在「聯合國認可的國家」之下,這樣的做法不禁令人懷疑背後的動機?...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe spoke to Asylum Access, an international NGO working on asylum issues, about the status of asylum laws in Taiwan, the organization's work, and its efforts to work on asylum issues in Taiwan...
The city of Prague breaking off a sister city agreement with Beijing to sign a sister city agreement in Taipei instead is likely to be misunderstood in Taiwan, seeing as this may be intended as a move in Czech domestic politics more than anything else...
Ko Wen-je's Taiwan People’s Party may be the largest uncertain factor after the results of the 2020 elections, seeing as the party is a newly emergent political force...
The results of 2020 elections led to the reelection of incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP retaining its majority in the legislature. However, how should we analyze the election results?...
Tsai Ing-wen of the DPP won reelection by large margins today. Tsai won over eight million votes, winning 57% of votes, and handily defeating her opponent, Han Kuo-Yu of the KMT. In the legislature, the DPP took a total of 61 seats, the KMT 38 seats, the TPP five seats, the NPP three seats, the Taiwan Statebuilding Party one seat...
In tracking political developments in the five years since the Sunflower Movement, one has observed a number of unexpected developments in the past year. First, one has seen increasingly large internal splits among the Third Force, and the sudden and unexpected resurgence of the KMT, which led to the consolidation of the pan-Green camp within the DPP...
There is an observable pattern of last-minute scandals breaking the news shortly before elections are set to take place in Taiwan. This seems to have been the case in the last 72 hours, with a number of scandals about the KMT that have suddenly erupted out in the open, as well as, to a lesser extent, the TPP. Most scandals are relatively minor, with the exception of explosive allegations against Alex Tsai of the KMT, which could potentially have a strong impact on elections tomorrow...