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Following the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, a writer from China talks about the powerlessness of society to affect change.
In 2013, Tsai Ing-wen wrote a letter to the youth of China about the 228 Massacre, and expressed her hope for a future democratic China.
The KMT established the Golden Horse Awards in the 1960s as a propaganda tool to promote patriotic Mandarin-language films, but did you know the first Golden Horse Award was just a sideshow for Taiwan’s massive Taiwanese Hokkien film industry awards?
An outlier in Taiwan’s modern dance scene, award-winning dancer Yao Shu-fen says “without creative work, it is impossible to live.”
Chen Meihua, professor of sociology at Sun Yat-sen University, says misogynist speeches by KMT candidate Han Kuo-yu not only scared away women’s votes, but also the youth vote.
A Taiwanese fishermen recruitment agency was charged in Cambodia with one of the most serious cases of human trafficking in the country’s history. The Taiwanese government wants to forget all about it.
In Taiwan, after election night, candidates have one final task: an elaborate thank-you tour, performed in person. For some this can take weeks. But what’s this all for?
Puma Shen says China could use Russian-style online disinformation campaigns in the run-up to Taiwan's 2020 Presidential Elections.
Former grand justice Hsu Yu-hsiu writes about the lockstep political development of Taiwan’s independent press and the tangwai movement, and how the public found courage to speak their conscience.
Writer Tang Shu-wen says the ghosts of the martial law period lived on in Taiwanese schools for nearly fifteen years.
Writer Chen Rou-jin talks about her identity crisis as a high school student during the martial law period, and how it affects her to the present day.
A child of the martial law period says its influence persisted even after it ended and that she was “blacklisted” by her classmates for not crying at the former president’s funeral.
Writer Chen Tsui-lien says the KMT’s party-state education system was an efficient brainwashing apparatus. But when the cracks started to appear, the entire system came crashing down.
Exporting high-speed rail technology is a key goal of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, but their first project in Indonesia has been hit with delays.
Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link was supposed to be a showpiece for China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative. But then the Malaysian government suspended construction, and a battle over the price tag ensued.
Writer Lu Yu and photographer Chan Long Hei interview eight participants of Hong Kong’s historic two million person march to protest the China extradition bill.
Writer Patrick Cheng speaks to his peers about the kind of political future they want for Hong Kong. For some, it’s all about declaring independence.
Writer Simon Lau Sai Leung says the extradition bill is the nail in the coffin for Hong Kong’s autonomy under "One Country, Two Systems."
With an increase of extreme weather due to climate change, the need for food security in Taiwan is more pressing than ever. Could new technologies help defend Taiwanese agriculture?
They were on opposing sides during the Tiananmen Square protests. One was a PLA soldier, the other a pro-democracy advocate. Fate arranged for them to meet in Taipei, 30 years later.
