The Tainan city council continues to be plagued by issues of entrenched corruption. This can be seen in a recent series of raids conducted by police on the offices of former Tainan city council speaker Kuo Hsin-liang...
A recent visit to Taiwan by Paraguayan president-elect Salvador Peña should serve as a reminder of Taiwan’s ties with regimes with questionable human rights records. Namely, even as Peña is feted as an ally of Taiwan, the Colorado Party that he served as the candidate of has ruled over Paraguay in an autocratic fashion for 75 years–if anything, the Colorado Party reminds of the KMT during its many decades of authoritarian rule in Taiwan...
The DPP held its party congress on Sunday at the Grand Hotel. This took place on the same day as the rally organized by former NPP chair Huang Kuo-chang and streamer Holger Chen on Ketagalan Boulevard. As no representative of the DPP was present at the rally, which all pan-Blue presidential candidates attended, this led to DPP party members being derided by Huang as off enjoying air conditioning while attendees at the rally toiled in the heat. Though the rally framed itself as non-partisan, given that all pan-Blue presidential candidates were present, the rally is largely read as pan-Blue...
Ahead of elections next year, the Tsai administration has announced a flurry of plans aimed at improving subsidies for education at the high school and college level. As such, it may not be surprising that the pan-Blue camp has criticized the Tsai administration for only announcing such plans to pander to voters...
The National Communications Commission approved the broadcast of Mirror TV earlier this week. Mirror TV is the first television network approved for broadcast in a decade and could start broadcasting as early as June...
DPP legislative candidate Lin Fei-fan, best known as one of the student leaders of the 2014 Sunflower Movement, announced his withdrawal from the 2024 legislative elections yesterday in a surprise move. This was to take responsibility for the current wave of controversies faced by the DPP regarding issues of sexual harassment within the party, seeing as Lin was seen as responsible through overseeing the DPP’s Gender Equality Committee during his period as a deputy secretary-general of the party–even if he did not commit any acts of wrongdoing...
The political narratives that the KMT will lean into for the next election is increasingly clear, as the KMT seeks to frame the DPP as a warmonger seeking conflict with China, while positioning itself as a party of peace. That is, the KMT seeks to frame the DPP as provoking China into hostilities by seeking Taiwanese independence...
Me Too-style sexual harassment allegations continue to embroil Taiwan. Accusations remain mostly centered on the political world, though there have been accusations more related to the academic or art worlds...
