With Chinese residents of Fujian and Shanghai set to be allowed to resume group tours to Taiwan in the near future, it proves a question as to how Chinese and Taiwanese authorities will collaborate on managing such tours...
A pedestrian bridge in Taipei has become the site of protests, after local residents have sought to push back against plans by the Taipei city government to demolish the bridge. The bridge is located near Daan Park, in the vicinity of National Taiwan Normal University...
Taoyuan mayor Simon Chang has been criticized for disregarding the results of an online poll to name new MRT stations that are part of the Green Line of the Taoyuan MRT, which will be opened in 2026...
On the 77th anniversary of the 228 Massacre, usually remembered as the start of the White Terror, it proves important to remember the long path that remains for transitional justice in Taiwan...
In early March, in the continuation of what has been a decade-long clash between Shezi Island (Shezidao) citizens and the Taipei City government, another round of protests on the peninsula was provoked by a visit from the administration of Chiang Wan-an, the new KMT mayor of Taipei...
On the 76th anniversary of the 228 Massacre, commemorations were held to memorialize the event, traditionally viewed as the start of the decades-long White Terror that followed. This includes many events held annually, such as the Gongsheng Music Festival–the indie rock festival held on Ketagalan Boulevard organized by civil society groups–as well as commemorations by the government. Nevertheless, the anniversary of the 228 Massacre should point to how the pan-Blue camp in Taiwan has generally sought to avoid reckoning with its authoritarian past...
KMT deputy chair Andrew Hsia’s nine-day trip to China ended on the 17th, with Hsia seeing protests by pro-independence groups such as the Taiwan Statebuilding Party upon his return...
The by-election to fill the legislative seat formerly occupied by Chiang Wan-an, for the Taipei City Constituency III, consisting of Zhongshan District and northern Songshan District, took place today. The results were a victory for Wang Hung-wei of the KMT, who was competing against Enoch Wu of the DPP...