Protests continue in Hong Kong, with a protest march on Sunday in Kowloon drawing 350,000 according to organizers. This week marked the 20th week of consecutive protests. The past week also saw a number of violent incidents against demonstrators...
Pingpu groups held a rally last Tuesday to call on President Tsai Ing-wen to acknowledge their status as indigenous. Currently unacknowledged indigenous groups, such as Babuza, Ketagalan, Makatao, Pazeh, and Siraya were among those present at the demonstration to call for their official recognition, which was primarily organized by the Tainan Siraya Culture Association...
Despite the obvious parallels between the ongoing popular uprising in Ecuador and the evolving crisis in Hong Kong, there has been scant media attention in Taiwan to the spiraling political situation in the former...
A Facebook group “Nanfangao, a small village but full of love,” emerged in the days after the collapse of the Nanfang'ao cross-harbor bridge in early October...
In a rather unexpected series of events, the Chinese government’s efforts to make international companies comply with its political will seems to have exploded out into international public discussion as a result of a series of events. A number of these incidents are connected to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong which have raged on for the last four months...
The need for labor protections for couriers and deliverers in Taiwan has become widely discussed in the past week. Namely, a large public reaction has ensued after two deaths of deliverers in traffic accidents and the death of a pedestrian struck by a deliverer...
A working group formed under the auspices of the Fisheries Agency has been meeting to discuss the labor rights of migrant workers employed aboard Taiwan’s distant water fleet...
A commemoration of leftist Taiwanese independence activist Su Beng’s life took place today, involving a march that began at the main gate of National Taiwan University and a festival that took on Ketagalan Boulevard, in front of the Presidential Office Building...