The same-sex marriage bill cleared its third reading in the legislature today, with most articles from the Executive Yuan's version of the bill being incorporated into the final bill. Over 40,000 participants gathered outside of the Legislative Yuan during the voting process in the Legislative Yuan...
Ahead of the May 24th deadline set by the Council of Grand Justices in its original ruling in May 2017 that gay marriage in Taiwan needed to be legalized by, concerns are on the rise regarding the three gay marriage bills currently under discussion in the legislature...
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...
Chinese academic Li Yi was deported last week on the basis of that his presence in Taiwan was to advocate the forcible and armed unification of Taiwan and China. As such, some questioning has ensued as to whether the Tsai administration crossed any lines in terms of free speech through the deportation...
Typically blind adulation of America has swept across Taiwan with the recent visit of Paul Ryan to Taiwan in order to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act. This should be of little surprise, however...
Youth for Tsai, an all-volunteer youth campaign recently formed by a group of university students hoping to take action to protect Taiwan amidst the growing influence from China on interfering with Taiwan domestic politics, was present in numbers at the 2019 Presidential Office Concert on Saturday. Their actions and the concert itself are indicative of progressive politics for Taiwanese young people today...
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...
Controversies in the DPP and KMT regarding their choice of presidential candidate prove that factionalism is alive and well in both major political parties in Taiwan...
The results of four by-elections that took place last week have been used as an early metric of political sentiment in Taiwan, with less than a year to go until 2020 elections. Elections will take place in January of next year...
Former premier William Lai declared yesterday that he intends to compete with current president Tsai Ing-wen for the DPP’s presidential nomination in 2020 elections. As such, Lai’s announcement, which caught many off-guard, has led to worries that this challenge could contribute to growing splits within the DPP...
