Suffering in silence: statistics from the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation expose alarming rates of domestic violence in Taiwan, mostly against women.

Hong Kong political activists Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus ‘Baggio’ Leung believe that they, along with other youth leaders, may be behind bars by the time the Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Hong Kong later this month.

As the wife of a Taiwanese man detained in China travels to the U.S. and Europe to lobby the international community for support, a prominent U.S. human rights lawyer sees several reasons for optimism as to why Trump may not be so bad on human rights after all.

In an exclusive interview, Lee Ching-yu talks to The News Lens.

'One thing that makes political asylum from China widely accepted in many other countries – the United States and many European countries – nowadays is because it is quite difficult to predict what might happen when they go back; that itself is a clear danger for that person.'

The lack of an asylum law in Taiwan opens up the case of the Chinese activist seeking asylum to administrative discretion. But an American lawyer in Taipei does not expect the man to be deported.

It may be a long road to freedom for the Taiwanese NGO worker detained in China but local political activists say Chinese actions will only strengthen their resolve.

Ahead of the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping, eight Taiwan and China experts share their expectations with The News Lens.

Four of the cases uncovered in the report involve defendants who have been executed.

‘There is a widespread discontent with the government…It may be just a matter of time until the pressure cooker bursts.’

Amos Yee has been granted political asylum in the United States.

The judge concluded that Yee's 2015 arrest and convictions clearly constituted past persecution on account of Yee's political opinion.

China-Taiwan trade statistics for 2016 were released earlier today.

'If there is an indictment in the DoJ case in the United States where Najib is named directly, then he is toast.'

'The CCP wouldn't admit its approach to Taiwan has completely failed,' says J. Michael Cole, a senior non-resident fellow at the University of Nottingham’s China Policy Institute.

With the advent of ISIS crowdsourcing, countering the organization’s expansion beyond the Middle East will be an arduous task.

'Do not question our determination to eliminate the KMT. The goal is always there.'

An estimated 690,000 people were living with HIV in Indonesia in 2015, including 17,000 children.