Today marks the one year anniversary since the Legislative Yuan passed legislation legalizing gay marriage in Taiwan, making Taiwan the first nation in Asia to legalize gay marriage...
As acts of protest and repression in Hong Kong are back in the news, I’ve been thinking once more about the extraordinary verses and prose poems that Tammy Ho Lai-Ming has written documenting the ongoing struggle in the city she lives in and loves...
COVID-19 cases continue to be low in Taiwan. Today marked the announcement of the seventh death which has taken place in Taiwan to date, with a total of 440 confirmed cases...
A wave of violence took place in Hong Kong over the weekend, perhaps marking the end of a relatively quiet period for the protests that have rocked Hong Kong for the past year...
With much international praise of Taiwan’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, in avoiding expansive lockdown measures and avoiding domestic transmission of the coronavirus, a major factor in Taiwan’s successes has been the ability of the government and society to communicate information about measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. As such, examining the aesthetics of the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwanese society may be instructive...
With the one year anniversary of Taiwan’s legalization of gay marriage coming up later this month, the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights has announced a campaign aimed at broadening the scope of transnational gay marriages in Taiwan...
Concerns continue to be raised by privacy advocates regarding a new electronic ID that the Taiwanese government intends to roll out, though the rollout of the ID has now been delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic...
The annual march in Taipei commemorating International Workers’ Day did not take place today, given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, labor groups held a press conference this morning on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office Building, where the International Workers’ Day march normally starts each year...
Anger has broken out from migrant worker advocates after a case that involved an attempt to deport a Filipina migrant worker that posted videos critical of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte by Philippine government officials in Taiwan...
Outrage has broken out from civil society groups after today’s ruling by the Criminal Court of the Taiwan High Court regarding the “324” attempted occupation of the Executive Yuan in March 2014. This was the second ruling on the case...