Is the KMT running scared on the issue of party assets? A freeze of a KMT-owned Bank SinoPac account was recently ordered by the task force investigating KMT party assets. The freeze took place after a withdrawal of 520 million NTD from the Bank SinoPac account, which was exchanged for ten cashiers checks from the Bank of Taiwan...
The saga of DMG Entertainment seeking to acquire Taiwan’s Eastern Broadcasting Company would seem to have become more complicated in recent days with reports that DMG is seeking former gangster turned pro-unification politician “White Wolf” Chang An-Lo, who committed political assassinations for the KMT in the past, to act as its representative in Taiwan...
Ray Yeung is a director of Hong Kong origin whose films touch upon the lives of queer Asian men and issues related to coming out and cultural expectations. His latest film Front Cover centers around these topics and will be showing next at Angelika Pop-Up in Washington D.C. starting Friday, September 30, 2016. The film will also be showing in Taipei at the Taipei Queer International Film Festival on October 22 and 30...
With more than sixty civic groups rallying on Ketagalan Boulevard against forced evictions and demolitions on Sunday, civil society groups and youth activists continue to push the Tsai administration regarding issues of urban and rural gentrification in Taiwan...
Not exactly a documentary nor exactly a historical film, recently released experimental film Le Moulin hones in on the lives of Le Moulin Poetry Society, a group of Taiwanese poets active during the Japanese colonial period who were influenced by French surrealism...
After the election of Eddie Chu to LegCo, questions have been raised in Hong Kong regarding land management in rural Hong Kong and collaboration between government actors, land development companies, and organized crime...
Jocelyn Ford’s 2014 Nowhere to Call Home: A Tibetan in Beijing details the life of Tibetan migrant Zanta as she struggles to provide a living for herself and her child in Beijing...
China’s recent bullying of Taiwan in the Paralympics is yet another incident in which an international sports event became a matter of contesting national identity for Taiwan...
