Pension reform seems set to become a battleground issue between the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps. The KMT is currently seeking to undo the Tsai administration’s reforms to Taiwan’s pension system...
Anger broken out in Taiwanese society after physical violence by pan-Blue demonstrators protesting against pension reform yesterday. What has been shocking and angering has been the use of physical violence by anti-pension demonstrators, particularly against journalists and the police. This led to fourteen journalists and 84 police officers being injured, including the beating of journalists and destruction of their equipment, attacks on media vans, and disruptions to the National Taiwan University Children's Hospital by anti-pension demonstrators...
With a large rally against pension reform taking place yesterday on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office Building that drew hundreds, one observes that KMT continues to leverage on the issue of pension reform as a way to appeal to supporters...
Anger has broken out after attacks by purported members of the KMT Youth Corps on the Alliance of Referendum for Taiwan’s long-standing occupation tent outside the Legislative Yuan yesterday...
The focus on military personnel in the Tsai administration’s pension reforms, with military personnel paid a higher pension than public servants and teachers in a manner modeled after the US army pension system, likely points to some of the challenges that the Tsai administration faces with regards to that pension reform...
While meant to be a cause for celebration in Taiwan, as marking the start of the largest international sporting event ever held in Taiwan, the opening ceremonies of the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade were instead a cause for media spectacle and anger from the Taiwanese public...
Strange scenes took place across Taiwan yesterday as part of a nationwide day of action against pension reform, mostly from pan-Blue military veterans. Most visible of these would be the attempt by several hundred opponents of pension reform to storm the Legislative Yuan, something which led to clashes with police and police injuries when they attempted to tear down the razor wire fence surrounding the Legislative Yuan...
