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...
Police clashed with protesters in Tainan on August 20th and August 21st, as part of efforts by authorities to evict the last household resisting eviction as part of plans to construct the Tainan Urban District Railway Underground Project. A total of 340 households were displaced for the railway development project. While most households agreed to move, five households refused...
Clashes broke out between residents of Shezidao, also known as Shezi Island, and police last week on Wednesday. These clashes took place in context of the Taipei city government’s second stage review environmental impact assessment conducted on the prospect of development on the island. This led to not only fighting with the police, but clashes between residents of Shezidao in favor of development and those opposed to it. This may be one of the first times that fighting has broken out during a protest during the current COVID-19 outbreak that Taiwan is currently in the late stages of...
Issues of forced eviction are back in the news, with outrage from activists and others after attempts by the Taiwan Railways Administration to evict residential households in Tainan for the sake of developing the Tainan Urban District Railway Underground Project...
