A number of third parties, namely the New Power Party, Green Party, Obasan Alliance, and the Tatwan Statebuilding Party, held a press conference with Better Together for NextGen Taiwan late last month to call for strengthening legal provisions intended to allow for youth participation in politics...
October was especially difficult for Taiwan’s transgender community, as a wave of anti-gender discourse flooded social media as a result of Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights’ strategic litigation plaintiff Lisbeth Wu finally changing her legal gender without providing proof of sexual organ removal surgery on October 8th. Wu’s case challenging compulsory surgery for legal gender change was initiated on Transgender Day of Remembrance, 2020 and finally received a favorable ruling by the Taipei High Administrative Court ruling on August 26th earlier this year. Before this court case, TAPCPR began representing Wu in 2018 for her then lawsuit against Chang Gung University for refusing to house her in women’s dormitories, which she won on June 25, 2021...
Representatives of the Taiwan Statebuilding Party, Kuma Academy, and international law expert John Sung Cheng-en held a press conference earlier this month to call for strengthening measures to combat Chinese influence. The TSP was represented by Taipei chapter head Wu Hsin-tai and party chair Wu Hsing-huan, while the Kuma Academy was represented by CEO Ho Cheng-hui....
The Taiwan Statebuilding Party held a press conference late last week about an incident involving an Eslite customer receiving phone calls from two Chinese individuals pretending to be customer service after purchasing a copy of If China Attacks...
Legislative speaker You Si-kun recently visited an exhibition held at the National Taipei University of Technology featuring prospective designs for a future legislature. In comments made at the exhibition, You emphasized that a country’s legislature to reflect the values it holds, seeing as it is iconic of that country...
Chen Po-wei of the Taiwan Statebuilding Party was recalled today. Chen, 36, popularly known by his nickname of “3Q”, represented the second electoral district in Taichung as the Statebuilding Party’s sole legislator...
The upcoming recall vote facing Taiwan Statebuilding Party legislator Chen Po-wei, which is set for October 23rd, looks to be an occasion in which the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps will directly come into conflict. Chen is a legislator representing Taichung District II, which consists of Dadu, Longjing, Shalu, Wufeng, and Wuri...
Taiwan marked one hundred days since the last case of domestic transmission of COVID-19 on July 17th, with the last case of local COVID-19 transmission having taken place on April 8th. It appears as though the COVID-19 situation is still under control in Taiwan, Taiwan having managed to avoid the expansive lockdowns that the rest of the world has seen. However, with the second and third waves of COVID-19 taking place globally and five new imported cases added today, Taiwan is likely to see an uptick in imported cases going forward...
The issue of whether the Tsai administration will allow a visit by the Dalai Lama to Taiwan has again become a political issue, following the reformation of the Taiwan Parliament Group for Tibet. Although the group existed in the past, it has been restarted by independent legislator Freddy Lim for the new legislative session. The Taiwan Parliament Group for Tibet has called on the Tsai administration to invite the Dalai Lama to visit Taiwan...
An unusual political controversy as of late has been regarding a stimulus coupon that the Tsai administration intends to distribute in order to promote spending. The coupons, which are available for purchase for 1,000 NT, are worth 3,000 NT and can be used at businesses such as night markets, department stores, salons, bookstores, restaurants, and other locations. The KMT has honed in on this program as a means of attacking the Tsai administration...
