A proposed constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to age 18 cleared the legislature last Friday. As a result, the amendment will be put to a national referendum later this year...
56 domestic cases, 107 imported cases, and zero deaths were reported by the CECC today. Today’s CECC daily press conference began twenty-five minutes late, due to Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung meeting with legislators in the Legislative Yuan...
33 domestic cases, 63 imported cases, and zero deaths were reported by the CECC today. This is slightly down from yesterday’s 34 cases, but Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung stated that what is a matter of concern is multiple cases with unknown sources of infection. Only four of the domestic cases were found while in quarantine, with thirteen imported cases found on arrival, and fifty found while in quarantine. There were fewer imported cases due to fewer arrivals today...
34 domestic cases, 93 imported cases, and zero deaths were reported at the CECC daily press conference today. Only three of the domestic cases were found in quarantine. On the other hand, 55 of the imported cases were found on arrival, and 38 while in quarantine...
83 domestic cases, 120 imported, and zero deaths were reported by the CECC today. This is the largest daily number of cases in Taiwan since June of last year...
1,500 Taiwan Railways Administration workers demonstrated on Wednesday against the corporatization of the Taiwan Railways. These were members of the Taiwan Railway Labor Union and other Taiwan Railways labor unions...
Vaccination rates have largely stalled in Taiwan at a time in which Taiwan debates if and whether to loosen COVID-19 measures. This would be in the interests of transitioning away from Taiwan’s current COVID-zero approach, so as to avoid Taiwan becoming disconnected from the international world at a time in which many countries are loosening their COVID-19 restrictions, something that would have a severe impact on Taiwan’s economy...
Civil society groups demonstrated on Friday, March 18th to call for the release of imprisoned Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-che in China. The demonstration took place the night prior to the fifth anniversary of Lee’s detention, which took place after he crossed into China from Macau on March 19th, 2017...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has again sought to attack the Tsai administration as attempting to sabotage his mayoral administration, this time regarding approval for the Taipei Dome. Ko most likely has his eyes on finishing the construction of the Taipei Dome during his tenure, in order that he can tout it as an accomplishment for future political endeavors...
A former Taiwan High Court judge has been impeached on conflict of interest charges in a case that points to a larger, structural issue in Taiwan. In particular, former judge Tseng Ping-shan faces impeachment due to contacts with Wong Maw-jang over a twenty-year period from 1997 to 2017, Wong being the chair of the Chia Her Group. Tseng served on the Taiwan High Court’s Tainan branch between 1997 and 2013...
