Efforts to fight the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak continue in Taiwan. New developments, however, have seen rising concerns about the spread of COVID-19 in South Korea and the potential effects this could have on Taiwan...
The apparent inability of the Transitional Justice Commission to confirm that the 1980 murders of Lin Yi-hsiung’s family were murders committed by the Taiwan Garrison Command or other state security forces points to the dilemmas of reckoning with political crimes committed during Taiwan’s authoritarian period. The Transitional Justice Commission recently announced that, according to its investigations of the murders, state security forces were “likely” involved but did not state any definitive conclusion as to if they were...
Efforts to combat the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic continue in Taiwan, with the Central Epidemic Command Center announcing the 26th confirmed case of the epidemic in Taiwan yesterday. One notes that several recent confirmed cases are examples of the domestic spread of COVID-19...
Controversy within the KMT about what to do with Fu Kun-chi, the former Hualien county magistrate who was successful in his bid for the legislature in 2020 legislative elections last month, reflect the unresolved contradictions of the party...
The Central Epidemic Command Center, which is coordinating efforts in Taiwan to combat the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, reported the first death in Taiwan due to the epidemic yesterday...
The KMT chair election debates, which took place on Wednesday, prove illustrative of the party’s general lack of solutions to address the party’s crisis. The chair election will take place on March 7th, 2020...
In the midst of the Coronavirus epidemic, publishing unsubstantiated rumors and misinformation poisons the well of public discourse, and performs a disservice to society. Perhaps the most egregious example of this in domestic English-language media is Taiwan News, an online media platform owned by Luis Ko, the CEO of I-Mei Foods, a major Taiwanese brand. Taiwan News recently published a number of articles making extraordinary claims about the COVID-19 outbreak in China. Two articles in particular deserve additional scrutiny; both were written by Keoni Everington, whose bylines list him as either “editor” or “staff writer”
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The 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak continues to have widespread implications in Taiwan, with a number of measures rolled out by the government in past days aimed at stopping the spread of the disease...
A recall vote against Han Kuo-yu of the KMT, the current mayor of Kaohsiung and the KMT’s presidential candidate during 2020 elections, seems likely to meet the necessary benchmarks to be held...