The Chinese government recently announced that it would be downgrading relations with Lithuania, in withdrawing its ambassador from the eastern European nation. Following this, China will no longer continue to conduct relations at the ambassador level with Lithuania...
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has sought to tout his TaipeiPASS system as a remedy to many of Taiwan’s COVID-19 woes...
Protests have broken out in the Solomon Islands against President Manasseh Sogavare, who was elected in 2019. What is worth noting, however, is that one of the factors driving the protests is the fact that Sogavare’s presidential administration switched recognition from Taiwan to China shortly after being elected...
The fate of the Taiwan edition of the Apple Daily continues to be up in the air, with moves by a Hong Kong liquidator to try and take control of the Apple Daily’s Taiwan assets...
A Taiwanese-Singaporean lesbian couple won their court case to get married yesterday, following a two-year lawsuit. The couple is publicly known as Xiao C and Mei-ping. Mei-ping is Singaporean while Xiao C is Taiwanese...
The deaths of three construction workers in a scaffolding accident in New Taipei last week will be punished by an 840,000 NT fine. Two Taiwanese workers and one Thai worker were killed in the accident, which occurred on November 20th around 1 PM in Sanxia District, New Taipei...
China announced that two Taiwanese companies, the Far Eastern Group and Asia Cement, would be fined a combined amount close to 14 million USD earlier this week. The groups were fined for a number of violations, ranging from labor issues, environmental violations, machine and fire safety, land usage, and taxes...
A new resolution passed by the KMT’s Central Standing Committee earlier this month provides an amnesty period, allowing for members that left or were kicked out of the KMT to rejoin before February 17th. This move is part of an initiative by recently elected chair Eric Chu to open the door for old members that have since left the party...
Attacks from the pan-Blue camp on Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung, who also heads the Central Epidemic Command Center that coordinates Taiwan’s fight against COVID-19, have become particularly intense in the last few weeks. Criticisms focus on a video of Chen Shih-chung singing karaoke without his mask on, which the KMT alleges to have been a recent video. It is unclear how the video leaked online...
The disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, who was ranked #1 internationally by the World Tennis Organization, has made international headlines in the past weeks. Fellow international tennis players ranging from Naomi Osaka to Chris Evert have expressed concern about Peng’s whereabouts, some stressing long years of acquaintanceship with Peng on the tennis court...
