Chinese Nationalist Party

Lawsuits Against Taipower from KMT Mayors Are an Indirect Way to Attack Tsai Administration

Brian Hioe
In the past month, the Nantou city government has filed a lawsuit against the state-owned Taipower Corporation. This is on the grounds that air pollution from the coal-burning Taichung Power Plant is causing the high death rate from lung cancer in Nantou county. Interestingly, the Taichung city government has backed Nantou county’s lawsuit against the Taipower Corporation... Read More
EnglishEnvironmentalMay 2019Social Movements1 Comment 05 min read

Ten Thousand Protest Against Nuclear Power, Visits by Tsai and Lai at Demonstration

Brian Hioe
With nuclear energy once again looming as an issue over elections next year, ten thousand demonstrated against nuclear energy in Taipei today. The demonstration saw visits by current president Tsai Ing-wen and former premier William Lai, who are both contending for the DPP's presidential nomination in 2020 elections... Read More
April 2019EnglishEnvironmentalFeaturedSocial Movements0 Comments 09 min read

The Cross-Straits Oversight Bill Reemerges as an Issue

Brian Hioe
It may be ironic that five years after the Sunflower Movement’s monthlong legislature of the Legislative Yuan in 2014, one of the demands dating back to the movement has floated up again as a public issue. Namely, one of the key demands of the movement was that a cross-strait oversight bill be passed in order to strengthen civic oversight over the passage of future cross-strait bills... Read More
April 2019Cross StraitEnglishInternational0 Comments 05 min read