News broke that the Chinese government approved the arrest of Taiwanese independence activist Yang Chih-yuan today, based on reporting by Chinese media. Yang was arrested on charges of secession and is thought to be held in Wenzhou, Zhejiang...
News broke over the weekend that Li Yanhe, the editor-in-chief of Gusa Publishing, had been detained in China. Li is a Chinese national, but is married to a Taiwanese person, and has resided in Taiwan since 2009. It is thought that Li is currently held under conditions resembling house arrest...
UMC founder and former chair Robert Tsao has gotten into an unusual dispute with pan-Blue news network CtiTV regarding recent plans by Tsao to donate 1 billion NT to efforts to strengthen civil defense in Taiwan...
News reports state that Phoenix Television will be withdrawing from Taiwan in May, laying off its 25 employees on May 14th. This comes after the network has come under scrutiny for whether it can be considered Chinese state media, as raised by DPP legislator Liu Shyh-fang and others...
With hearings held by the National Communications Commission coming up next week regarding television outlet CtiTV’s renewal of its operations license, the issue has become one with which the KMT has sought to attack the DPP. In particular, the KMT has framed the issue as the DPP seeking to shut down CtiTV, as a means of targeting political critics...
The expulsion of two Chinese reporters from Taiwan proves a rare incident in which the Taiwanese government has taken action against Chinese media operating in Taiwan...
