As acts of protest and repression in Hong Kong are back in the news, I’ve been thinking once more about the extraordinary verses and prose poems that Tammy Ho Lai-Ming has written documenting the ongoing struggle in the city she lives in and loves...
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COVID-19 cases continue to be low in Taiwan. Today marked the announcement of the seventh death which has taken place in Taiwan to date, with a total of 440 confirmed cases...
A wave of violence took place in Hong Kong over the weekend, perhaps marking the end of a relatively quiet period for the protests that have rocked Hong Kong for the past year...
With much international praise of Taiwan’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, in avoiding expansive lockdown measures and avoiding domestic transmission of the coronavirus, a major factor in Taiwan’s successes has been the ability of the government and society to communicate information about measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. As such, examining the aesthetics of the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwanese society may be instructive...
With a recall vote against Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu set to take place next month on June 6th, recall campaign organizers and pan-Green politicians supportive of the recall have alleged that the Han administration is attempting to interfere with the vote...
With the one year anniversary of Taiwan’s legalization of gay marriage coming up later this month, the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights has announced a campaign aimed at broadening the scope of transnational gay marriages in Taiwan...
Issues of mental health in Taiwan are in the spotlight after a Chiayi District Court ruled the killer of a railway officer to be “Not Guilty” on the basis that the man suffers from schizophrenia...
Proposals by the DPP, NPP, and TSP to redesign the Taiwanese passport and rebrand China Airlines advanced to their second readings in the Taiwanese legislature last week...
