Ten domestic cases and one imported case were announced at the CECC daily press conference today. Five of these cases were already in quarantine while no new deaths were announced...
Imagine sitting at the front line of an anti-coup protest, facing riot police with nothing but the clothes on your back and the words that you shout. Imagine not knowing whether your state was heading into civil war or massacre. For a decade you thought democratic reform was the answer to your country’s flawed political system but now realize that insurrections and coups have easily dismantled and impoverished your home and its values. You are fighting for something that is hard to believe yet still hold onto hope and each other. It takes courage in the face of terror and fear...
12 domestic cases and one imported case were announced by the CECC at its daily press conference today. Five cases were already in quarantine, while no new deaths were announced today. There were seven cases in Taipei and five cases in New Taipei. 87.6% of cases to date have been released from quarantine. Ten cases have known sources of infection, one case is under investigation, and one case has an unclear source of infection...
Workers at a golf course owned by Miramar in Linkou, Taoyuan have been on strike for the last two months. Nevertheless, the strike has experienced little media coverage due to taking place at the same time as the current level three COVID-19 alert. As one might expect, it has proven difficult to protest under COVID-19 conditions...
24 domestic cases and one imported case were announced at the CECC daily press conference today. 12 of these cases were already in quarantine and two deaths were announced. Five cases have known sources of infection, four cases have unknown sources of infection, and three cases are under investigation. There were nine cases in New Taipei, seven cases in Taipei, three cases in Taoyuan, two cases in Changhua, and one case each in Taoyuan, Miaoli, and Keelung...
The Chulalongkorn University administration in Thailand is expected to target student activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, after a pro-democracy student orientation organized by Chotiphatphaisal. The student orientation took place on July 20th...
23 domestic cases and one imported case was announced at the CECC daily press conference today. Eleven of these cases were already in quarantine. Two deaths were announced. Thirteen cases were in New Taipei, while there were four cases each in Taipei and Taoyuan, and one case each in Yilan and Kaohsiung...
Controversy has broken out regarding the Tokyo Olympics, primarily revolving around the accommodations for Taiwan’s athletes competing in the Olympics. Indeed, much of the controversy hinges around matters of national pride about athletes who represent Taiwan on the international stage. At the same time, the deeper roots of the controversy are rooted in the legacy of authoritarianism in Taiwan, particularly regarding kickbacks for government officials with ties to the KMT party-state and a deeply-rooted culture of abuse in Taiwanese sports...
30 domestic cases and two imported cases were announced at the Central Epidemic Command Center’s daily press conference today. 20 of these cases were already in quarantine, with four deaths announced. Taipei and New Taipei both reported eleven cases, while there were seven cases in Taoyuan and one case in Hsinchu...
In 2016, when the Taitung County government announced they were stopping construction of a baseball court on the Zhiben wetlands—the traditional territory of the Katratripulr tribe of the Beinan Indigenous people—the tribe did not anticipate that they would split into factions during their next fight against a new construction project on their land. ...
