A demonstration of several thousand workers against planned cuts to public holidays by the Tsai administration took place today, including an attempt to occupy the Legislative Yuan...
The death of French-born Jacques Picoux has led to criticisms of the Tsai administration for a failure to fulfill campaign promises suggesting the legalization of marriage equality. Picoux’s death after falling from a ten story building, with no signs of struggle, has been interpreted as a suicide by friends and acquaintances...
After much waffling on the matter, it would be that Tsai Ing-Wen has taken a hard line against Taiwanese labor with planned changes to labor policy which Tsai has ordered to be forced through the Legislative Yuan. This has provoked outrage from labor groups...
Civic participation that is merely “surface-level” and “high-tech” will only make hardworking public officials frustrated, and cause the public to distrust the government...
If recent comments by incoming DPP minister without portfolio Chang Ching-sen have drawn fire for their disdain of student protestors, perhaps this is a sign of what the DPP’s future attitudes towards Taiwan’s student protestors will be...