2022/01/09 |
Taiwan: Lin Ching-yi Prevails in Win for Pan-Green Forces
Lin’s victory reflected the voters’ approval of her call to “end the politics of corruption,” which the DPP has made a central part of her campaign platform.
2021/10/26 |
Taiwan Might Be a Country for Women in Politics. Can It Be So in Business?
Female executives governed less than 14% of Taiwan’s listed companies, a report shows.
2021/09/19 |
Taipei Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Indigenous Peoples in Mining Rights Case
Taipei’s Supreme Administrative Court on Thursday revoked the economic ministry’s renewal in 2018 of Asia Cement Corporation’s mining permit in Hualien for another 20 years.
2021/08/22 |
How Is Taiwan’s First Domestic Vaccine Being Received?
Many young people joked about being part of the DPP’s “internet army,” who are paid by a party to praise its policies, by announcing their decision to receive the Medigen vaccine.
2021/08/12 |
What Tokyo Olympics Means for Taiwan
China will continue blocking Taiwan’s participation as a country in international sports events, but it cannot prevent the Taiwanese contingent from advancing to the final games and contesting a medal with its athletes.
2021/07/23 |
Taiwan’s Climate Change Action on Trial for the First Time
Taiwan’s economic ministry has been sued for a new regulation that could cause the country to fall behind the world on climate action.
2021/06/24 |
Lithuania’s Vaccine Donation Sparks a Shopping Spree in Taiwan
Taiwanese people thanked Lithuania for the donation of Covid-19 vaccine by buying Lithuanian chocolate and beer. Some proposed visiting the Baltic country after the pandemic.
2021/06/16 |
A Taiwanese Mural Artist’s Journey Home
For his solo exhibition in Taiwan, Wang Liang traveled to cities and towns he had never set foot upon, on the lookout for images characterizing the people and their surroundings in the place he had come to feel, in some sense, that he had never left.
2021/06/07 |
Foreign Professionals Are Leaving Taiwan. Just Don’t Accuse Them of Fleeing Covid-19.
Some gold card holders are leaving Taiwan to avoid restrictions on life and work from Covid-19. Others are returning home for vaccination.
2021/05/07 |
Taiwanese-Japanese Gay Couple Latest in Legal Movement for Transnational Partners
The couple is one of the many that a local civil rights organization has recruited to test the limits of Taiwan’s same-sex marriage bill.
2021/05/06 |
Groundbreaking Court Decision Expands Transnational Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan
A high court in Taipei ruled today a Taiwanese and Macau citizen should be allowed to get married. They will be the first same-sex couple of a Taiwanese and Macau citizen to have their marriage recognized in Taiwan.
2021/04/23 |
Taiwan’s Food Delivery Workers Campaign for Labor Union and Better Pay
Foodpanda and UberEats started implementing a new method of payroll calculation in April, and some workers said this would reduce their pay.
2021/04/09 |
‘The Power Of the People Will Prevail’: The Activist Building Taiwan-Myanmar Solidarity
“As an overseas Myanmar person, all I can do is to get the voices from Myanmar heard, noticed, and have foreigners come together to help my country,” Thomas Chen said.
2021/04/01 |
First Taiwanese-Developed Vaccine May Be Available as Early as July
Taiwanese biopharma company MVC said Tuesday that it is looking to offer one to two million Covid-19 vaccine doses as early as July after receiving the Taiwanese Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization.
2021/03/25 |
Police Violence Perpetrators ‘Not Found,’ Seven Years After the Sunflower Movement
It has been seven years since the Sunflower Movement, but nobody has taken responsibility for the excessive use of force during the attempted occupation of the Executive Yuan.
2021/03/18 |
Reactivating Controversial Nuclear Site Not an Option: Tsai
The controversy over Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant resurfaced due to a construction plan for a liquified natural gas terminal.
2021/03/02 |
Taiwan’s Domestic Pineapple Consumption Closes Gap From China’s Ban
With Taiwanese people and businesses on a buying spree, the domestic demand for pineapples has surpassed the total export that was supposed to be sold to China this year.
2021/02/24 |
With Confucius Institutes Shuttering Across US, Can Taiwanese Teachers Fill the Gap?
Taiwanese teachers of Mandarin are in high demand in the U.S., but opinions vary over whether they can fill the gap left by Chinese teachers.