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, by DAVIDSON Helen
Island state went 253 days without a single local case but now the number of cases is rising sharply
A worsening coronavirus outbreak in Taiwan has raised urgent questions about how the virus slipped past the island’s “gold standard” defences, and if it can quickly return to a zero-Covid life. (…)
, by HÉRAIT Alice , SIMORRE Adrien
French utilities giant EDF this year decided to close its offices in Taiwan, a democratically self-governed archipelago which China vigorously lays claim to as a province of its own. Curiously, the move comes just as Taiwan launches an ambitious programme to develop renewable energies, an (…)
, by LIM Emerson
Taipei, Dec. 13 (CNA) Migrant domestic workers took to the streets of Taipei on Sunday, calling for better legal protections, such as inclusion in Taiwan’s minimum wage regulations and two days off per week.
At the rally held ahead of International Migrants Day on Dec. 18, the 100-plus (…)
, by DAVIDSON Helen , GRAHAM-HARRISON Emma
At the entrance to Taipei’s Pride march on Saturday, Pearl Jain and Lance Xie held up a sign offering free hugs. Similar placards were waved above the pulsating crowd of 100,000 sweaty and bedazzled party goers along the parade route.
Xie had recently returned from Melbourne, where 5 million (…)
, by CHEN Ying-Yu Alicia
For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei’s popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is (…)
, by CHUNG Lawrence
• Self-ruled island has been frozen out of the World Health Organisation but its strong response to Covid-19 has helped raise its profile
• Taipei has offered to donate 10 million face masks to countries that are battling the outbreak
Taiwan has intensified its efforts to raise its global (…)
, by CHUNG Lawrence, Press Agencies
• Fast response, transparency and efficacy have been credited for island’s success in controlling the disease locally so far, experts say
• Taiwan will be tested in the weeks to come as Taiwanese return home from Europe and North America, where case numbers are rising
Taiwan’s initial (…)
, by HAACK Michael, HIOE Brian, LIN Kevin
Taiwanese voters are going to the polls tomorrow for presidential elections as protests continue to rage in Hong Kong. But in order to understand Taiwan, we have to understand the power of China — and the looming shadow of US imperialism.
On Saturday, voters in Taiwan will go to the polls to (…)
, by FINNANE Antonia
Every so often a woman takes up arms to lead a spirited struggle against invaders and occupiers of her homeland. Such women usually wind up dead at an early age, but they capture the imagination. The most famous example in British history is Boudica, aka Boedicea; in French history, it is Joan of Arc.
The Taiwanese revolutionary Hsieh Hsüeh-hung (1901-1970) is such a figure, (...)
, by HEFLIN Michael, TENG Joyce
In 40 percent of the world’s countries, homosexual conduct remains criminalized. Still, there are signs of progress. After a protracted struggle—in courts, through a national referendum, and in the legislature—Taiwan became the first place in Asia to recognize the right to same-sex marriage. (…)
Taiwan’s parliament voted to legalise same-sex marriage on Friday, becoming the first in Asia to do so.
Lawmakers had a two-year window to make a decision after Taiwan’s constitutional court ruled that same-sex couples had a right to marry in 2017.
Tens of thousands of supporters waiting (…)
, by HORTON Chris
Supporters uneasy ahead of parliamentary debate on marriage equality bills.
Two years ago, Taiwan’s constitutional court made a historic ruling, declaring the country’s civil code, which posited that marriage can only be between a man and a woman, unconstitutional.
The court gave Taiwan’s (…)
, by HIOE Brian
The frustrations of small farmers from the Han majority are being channeled against their indigenous neighbours.
The demonstration on 15 May 2019 involved over one thousand members of the Taiwan Association for the Rights of Non-Aboriginal Residents in Mountain Indigenous Townships (…)
, by CHANG Chin-fen
Taiwan had been able to achieve both growth and equality in the process of development until the 1980s. The statistics of household disposable income publicized by the government show that the highest 20% of households earned four times of the lowest 20% in the 1980s, but the ratio gradually (…)
, by KELLEHER Patrick, Press Agencies
LGBT activists said it was a major blow to the island’s reputation as a rights trailblazer.
Voters in Taiwan have rejected same-sex marriage in a referendum, a setback to LGBT couples hoping their island will be the first country in Asia to let same-sex couples share child custody and (…)
, by KAMIL Josh
When gay activist Chi Chia-Wei stepped into the Taipei District Court in 1986 demanding the notarisation of his marriage licence, he was thrown out and not long after imprisoned for several months on a trumped-up burglary charge.
Even before this, Chia-Wei had done the truly unthinkable. He (…)
, by KAMIL Josh
When gay activist Chi Chia-Wei stepped into the Taipei District Court in 1986 demanding the notarisation of his marriage licence, he was thrown out and not long after imprisoned for several months on a trumped-up burglary charge.
Even before this, Chia-Wei had done the truly unthinkable. He (…)
, by BATKE Jessica
For the last 20 years or so, international NGOs focused on Greater China have generally set up camp in Hong Kong or in China. Particularly as Beijing allowed more and more groups to operate within the PRC’s borders — granting explicit permission or offering tacit consent — it was an obvious (…)
, by COCA Nithin
In 2014, the Sunflower Movement rocked the island-nation of Taiwan. A grassroots, youth-driven coalition, they used innovative open source digital organising tools in a broad effort to stop a controversial trade deal with China the then-ruling Kuomintang party was planning to rush through the (…)
, by AFP
Beijing says bill violates ‘one China’ policy and asks US to stop pursuing official ties with Taipei
China has called on the US to “correct its mistake” after Donald Trump approved rules allowing top-level US officials to travel to Taiwan to meet their Taipei counterparts.
US (…)
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