It seems likely that the Tama Talum case can now be added to the growing list of issues that Tsai Ing-Wen promised to take action on during campaigning but has failed to substantially push for while in office...
The firing of Taiwanese actress Irene Chen from the cast of the upcoming Chinese film GF Vending Machine for pro-Sunflower movement political views would be nothing new, regarding identity struggles in the Sinophone entertainment industry...
Further splits seem to be emerging in the KMT as of late, with former president Ma Ying-Jeou coming into conflict with current chairperson Hung Hsiu-Chu regarding the "1992 Consensus"...
Contention about the ROC framework between the DPP and KMT would seem to be behind recent controversy about Tsai Ing-Wen's appointments to the Judicial Yuan...
Rodrigo Duterte, the recently elected president of the Philippines, brought his brazen anti-American rhetoric to its logical conclusion this week with his proclamation before the People’s Congress in Beijing that he would be ending his country’s alliance with the United States and would be switching his partnership to China. What are the implications for Taiwan?...
A demonstration of several thousand workers against planned cuts to public holidays by the Tsai administration took place today, including an attempt to occupy the Legislative Yuan...
Is western news coverage of the death of Thailand's king revealing of the broader tendency for western media covering Asia to have a rosy view of authoritarian political regimes?...
The International Design House Exhibition caps off Taipei’s time as World Design Capital 2016, but ultimately presents a vision of the city as an aestheticized consumer capital through an overemphasis on designer consumer products...
