An incident at a college basketball game involving a Sengalese-Taiwanese player being called the N-word by a member of the opposing led to strong reactions earlier this month, including comments by Premier Su Tseng-chang, who stated that racial discrimination was unacceptable in Taiwan...
KMT legislator Alex Fai accused Facebook of interfering in Taiwanese politics after the Facebook account of Pan Chong-cheng, the convenor of the current referendum on the construction of a liquified gas terminal off the coast of Datan District, Taoyuan, was briefly suspended from the social media website...
Reports by the Liberty Times, quoting an anonymous source, stated earlier this month that the Chinese government was seeking to train Taiwanese young people as influencers in order to popularize pro-China views...
Railway workers may strike over the upcoming Tomb Sweeping Holiday in protest of a new work schedule. The Tomb Sweeping Holiday, which is expected to see heavy travel from individuals traveling back to visit family tombs, will take place between April 2nd and April 5th...
Comments by Admiral Phillip Davidson, the head of the US Indo-Pacific Command, prompted alarm in Taiwan earlier this week after he stated that China could invade Taiwan within six years. The comments were made in the context of a hearing held by the Armed Services Committee of the US Senate...
Migrant worker groups demonstrated in front of the Legislative Yuan on International Women’s Day on Monday, calling attention to the plight faced by female migrant workers in Taiwan. Around 100 migrant workers, who were primarily from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, were in attendance...
A march is held annually in Taipei to commemorate Tibetan Uprising Day, which remembers the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese occupiers in Tibet. This year the decision was made to hold the march on the Sunday before Tibetan Uprising Day on March 7th and to hold a prayer ceremony at Liberty Plaza on March 10th...
Indigenous activists held an overnight sleep-in outside of the Judicial Yuan yesterday night, with a hearing scheduled to take place on the Tama Talum case today...
US president Joe Biden announced a 100-day review of US supply chains last month, in the hopes of locating points of economic dependency on China. This will include evaluating supply chains for microchips, rare earth metals, pharmaceuticals, batteries for electric cars, and other items...