KMT legislator Hsu Yu-Zhen, as well as other pan-Blue legislators, called for changes to recall laws in Taiwan last month in order to protect Keelung mayor Hsieh Kuo-liang. Hsieh is currently facing a recall campaign, which has now acquired the number of signatures necessary to hold a recall vote...
The issue of priority seats, specified by law as for "disabled, elderly, women and children," is again in the news after two violent incidents on the Taipei MRT. Laws currently specify that priority seats be no less than 15% of all available seating on public transportation...
After a news report from the Liberty Times, the National Communications Commission (NCC) is investigating allegations that a televised political program is accepting direction from a Xinhua correspondent. This is alleged to be Xinhua reporter Zhao Bo...
Former Kinmen county magistrate Lee Wo-shih faces 90 months in prison after a May 29th sentence handed down by the courts. Lee was Kinmen county magistrate between 2010 and 2014, as a member of the KMT. Lee was previously a New Party member until 2007...
Over the weekend, Chinese courts announced new legal guidelines that include the death penalty for supporters of Taiwanese independence. These individuals are termed “diehard Taiwanese independence separatists,” with the death penalty specified for “ringleaders” of Taiwanese independence...
Migrant workers demonstrated outside of the Ministry of Health and Welfare earlier this month, to call for the inclusion of migrant caregivers in the long-term healthcare system...
