In short, Taiwan needs to be genuine about its practice of human rights, and align its labor rights with its advocacy of ...

On a rainy April day in an elementary school classroom in Taipei, 11 and 12-year-old students giggled and bounced on their feet with fists clenched and arms swinging, performing the action of jumping ...

This article is based on a Taiwan Report podcast, Taiwan Report News Brief–DPP Factions, prepared for Ketagalan Media by the author. Recently, while working on an entry in an upcoming book, the ...

There’s a cliche popular in Taiwan that Taiwanese education is “Confucian” or based on the philosophy of Confucianism. This is used as praise where it succeeds: high standards, high societal respect ...

In recent months, the independent press of Taiwan has admirably stayed on a story that has largely shied away from a forensic public probe. The construction of Taiwan’s largest solar farm in Taitung ...

This article was originally published by Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly newsletter, The Global Taiwan Brief, Vol. 6, Issue 12. Used with permission. To get the Global Taiwan Brief in your inbox ...

The popular protest movement of May 2024 is now referred to as the “Bluebird Movement” (青鳥行動, qingniao xingdong). The choice of this name Blue bird deserves an explanation, as much as the choice of ...

The United States has been rocked by large street protests over the past two weeks, sparked by the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died while being arrested by four police officers. These ...

The 1938 Munich Agreement, in which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain conceded the Sudetenland to Adolf Hitler in the name of peace, ultimately emboldened Nazi Germany and led to the most ...

On July 1, 2020, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Taiwan and Somaliland, an autonomous region of the country recognized internationally as Somalia, arrived at a decision on the ...

This article was originally published by Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly newsletter, The Global Taiwan Brief, Vol. 9, Issue 9. Used with permission. To get the ...

With the 2016 general elections right around the corner, the island nation of Taiwan will once again exercise its hard-won democracy in a contest heralding exciting political change. On January 16, ...