The ongoing “Great Recall Movement” against the KMT proves unprecedented in Taiwanese history. Namely, there has never been a campaign to recall all the legislators of a specific political camp...
The KMT’s conflicted position on budgeting–as well as the military–is apparent with recent moves. Namely, the KMT has acted to increase the monthly allowance of voluntary soldiers to 30,000 NT. This is an increase of over 15,000 NT...
Taipower, Taiwan's state-run energy utility, won out in a recent ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court that exempted it from needing to pay 30 million NT for failing to remove low-level nuclear waste from Orchid Island. Low-level nuclear waste refers to items that have become contaminated with radioactive material or become radioactive through exposure, as distinguished from intermediate-level nuclear waste, high-level nuclear waste, spent fuel rods, or other nuclear waste materials...
On Saturday, 60,000 Taiwanese took the streets to protest nuclear power. How are to look at this in the broader context, four years after Fukushima?...
A comparative examination of the Taiwanese anti-nuclear movement in 2014 and the Japanese anti-nuclear movement in 2012. Can a transnational comparison shed light upon future paths for anti-nuclear activism in Asia?...
