2022/08/24 |
What Singapore’s 377A Repeal Is About: Entrenching the PAP’s Conservative Rule
Behind the facade of an advance for the LGBT community in Singapore is an attempt to shore up both a homophobic agenda and the ruling People’s Action Party’s rule.
2022/02/24 |
Reading Putin’s Speech From Taiwan
Putin’s speech on the war’s eve expressed an incoherence that leaves China in an awkward position vis-a-vis its claims on Taiwan.
2022/05/13 | Sponsored
[Audiovisual] Organizing hundreds of thousands of aerial images and footage is like an marathon: the Digital Archive program by Chi Po-lin Foundation
“Speak out for the environment through images” is what Director Chi had been committed to throughout his life, as well as what Chi Po-lin Foundation is going to continue. We will build a photography database to preserve the images showing landscape changes of the whole Taiwan, so the image legacy left by Chi Po-lin could be passed on from generations to generations. “Digital Archive” program calls for your support and advocacy.
2022/02/17 |
Taiwan’s Minimum Wage Is Not Adequate for Its Cost of Living
Taiwan’s low minimum wage has contributed to half of workers earning less than what they need to have a basic standard of living.
2022/01/13 |
Taiwan’s Businesses Are Increasing Prices To Earn Higher Profits
Average consumers will take a hit, while businesses will continue to earn high profits from the recent price increases.
2022/03/08 | Sponsored
Taiwan and India：Strategizing the Relations
India has been regarded as one of the major partner countries under Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy. From the Indian perspective, prospects of India-Taiwan relations have never been better. Immense potential in these bilateral relations needs to be developed further.
2022/03/10 |
South Korea: How Does Moon Jae-in’s Presidency Affect the Election
The results of a pre-election survey suggest that growing backlash to Covid-19 policies led to declining support for Moon, perhaps indirectly affecting perceptions of the losing candidate, Lee Jae-myung.
2022/11/02 |
The Tsai Administration Is Silent on Lula’s Victory. What Would It Take for That To Change?
The Tsai administration’s passing on an opportunity to demonstrate support for democracy in Brazil is disappointing. All the more so because in 2018, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued immediate congratulations to Bolsonaro on the day of his presidential election.
2022/02/16 | Sponsored
Phihong Technology Selected to Support Shell Groups Global EV Charging Expansion
Phihong Technology, a global supplier of power products and EV charging stations, has been selected by Shell, one of the world's largest oil and gas companies, to support their continued expansion into the global EV charging market.
2022/09/27 |
What Taiwan’s Intermediate Skilled Manpower Classification Means
Taiwan’s new “intermediate skilled manpower” classification has potential to benefit migrant workers and create a more diverse society in the long term. But there is a risk of developing a permanent underclass unable to fully participate in the economic, social, and cultural mainstream of Taiwanese life.
2021/10/07 | Sponsored
New Southbound Policy: The Role of the Yushan Forum
Yushan Forum fills a critical gap in generating fresh foreign policy ideas and implementing the same, and thereby serves as a strategic platform to get a wholesome perspective from the New Southbound Policy countries.
2022/03/10 |
Military Conscription Can’t Deliver Geopolitical Security — in Taiwan, Ukraine, or Anywhere Else
If the goal is to establish durable conditions of geopolitical security, the only hope for Taiwan is the emergence of an international diplomatic regime committed to the mutual draw-down of military capacity worldwide, through which all countries, especially China, Russia, and the United States, would be compelled to gradually diminish their own standing armies.
2022/01/04 |
‘Being the Ricardos’ Turns ‘I Love Lucy’ into the Nicole Kidman Show
‘Being the Ricardos’ has divided critics on everything but one point: Nicole Kidman is a revelation.
2021/07/12 | Sponsored
ZA Share Brings Innovative Energy to Nan’ao and Qianzhen Caoya by Assembling Local Teams
The last mile for any regional revitalization is actually education.
2022/02/10 |
China is a Threat to World’s Seas
The high seas should be the world’s commons, but China is turning them into a wild west to be plundered.
2022/06/17 |
Taiwan’s Lost Growth (Part 2): How Stagnant Wages are Throttling the Economy
Taiwan has one of the lowest GDP growths since 1995 among emerging economies. This is not going to change if wages don’t grow.
2021/06/25 | Sponsored
An assessment from TAEF: Five Years of the New Southbound Policy
Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy is more than an economy-oriented strategy and shapes Taiwan’s Asia policy. TAEF suggests that the government is supposed to enhance its internal and external communications for making the policy more comprehensive and effective.
2022/03/15 |
Singapore’s Elastic Commitment to Accountability
Raeesah Khan’s case shows that the latitude we’re willing to give to untruths and screw-ups varies depending on what the ruling party might be able to get out of it.
2022/08/16 |
What the Philippines Has at Stake in Taiwan
Politicians in the Philippines have called for a contingency plan for the evacuation of the estimated 200,000 overseas Filipino workers in Taiwan.
2020/12/22 | Sponsored
GARAOTUS partners up with intel and Advantech to provide genomics solutions by AI-HPC technologies is a silver lining in post-pandemic era
Advancements in genomics are opening new doors for understanding human diseases and are increasingly informing innovative precision treatment plans. However, genomics sequencing generates hundreds of petabytes of data per year. Researchers and scientists require tools to analyze these enormous volumes of data in a timely manner to gain insights into disease and possible treatments. GARAOTUS provide the AI-HPC technologies to accelerate genomics workflows. Performance gains include a 75 percent speedup for the BWA performance.
2022/08/23 |
The Real Problem With Taiwan’s Plagiarism Scandals
The focus on educational background in Taiwan’s electoral politics closes paths to office for the many without the power or money to gain degrees from elite institutions — illicitly or not.
2022/10/30 |
How Might Brazil’s Elections Affect Taiwan?
A Lula victory could signal a return in prominence, and perhaps an expansion, of the BRICS group.
2020/11/13 | Sponsored
Taiwan Sets First Creative Content Fest Dedicated to All Modes of Creativity
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic might have paralyzed global travel but that has not stopped Taiwan from flexing its muscles and putting its film and entertainment content on the world stage.
2022/05/21 |
“Now I Walk My Own”: Kao Chia-yu’s Path, Part 2
Kao Chia-yu frames her rise as that of a self-made actor against established forces. The story begins in her college years. This is the second part of a three-part essay on Kao and the world that made her.
2022/06/08 |
“Haunted by Our Continuing Pain”: Martial Law Survivors React to Marcos Restoration
Survivors of martial law in the Philippines gathered in the wake of the restoration of the Marcos family to power. They fear a return of the worst abuses from the era.