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At the start of 2021, the Hong Kong police arrested more than 50 opposition figures under the Hong Kong National Security Law. This was a huge crackdown on activists and those seeking to defend democracy in Hong Kong.
With false information growing daily on platforms like Facebook and LINE, Taiwan's Ministry of Education has drawn up an action plan that targets specific age groups. But what do NGOs and tech companies think of the plan?
The content farm "Mission" is enormously popular with pan-blue supporters, and despite numerous takedowns, continues to rise from the dead. But who's pulling the strings at Mission?
Taichung's historic railway station closed down in 2016. In its final week of operations, writer Chen Hung-pai visited the station to pay her respects.
China and Taiwan both use “China” in the names of their national airlines. But the confusion doesn’t stop there, they also share the same “tail numbers” — identifying numbers that are unique to each country’s national air carrier.
During the SARS epidemic, the Taipei City government took the radical move of quarantining Heping Hospital, with hundreds of staff and patients locked inside. 17 years later, Taiwan's CECC reflects on the gravity of the decision.
Seventeen years ago, the SARS epidemic had a devastating impact on the patients and staff of Taipei City’s Heping Hospital. The Reporter looks at how three doctors’ dealt with the epidemic.
According to a source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, WHO head Tedros says Taiwanese web users are to blame for the rise in criticism directed at the WHO.
The Sanying Amis helped build the city of Taipei. The government thanked them by tearing down their homes. But a new model of ownership could help to make things right.
Google, Facebook and LINE claim to have toolkits to stop the spread of disinformation on their platforms. In reality, content farms and propaganda peddlers are way ahead of the game.
A mysterious figure from China, “Boss Evan” has trained dozens of online fraudsters and propaganda peddlers. Now, he’s created an entire platform for anyone to bootstrap their own content farm empire.
Hong Kong’s anti-extradition protests have slowed considerably since the outbreak of the coronavirus. But underneath the medical masks, confidence in chief executive Carrie Lam remains in short supply.
In Malaysia, trans-national content farms are “an industry,” says one insider. But why does Malaysian content directed at Taiwan take on so many “Chinese characteristics?”
Messaging app LINE is a haven for health scams, misleading headlines and Chinese government propaganda. In this four part series, The Reporter reveals a trans-national group of schemers behind the all out assault.
Chen Wen-hsi was the first casualty of the 228 Massacre. He was also an unemployed loafer and the brother of a notorious crime boss. Was he a victim or a villain?
In 2016, Taiwan's supreme court ruled that a 228 victim family from Okinawa had the right to receive government compensation. Taiwan watcher Tsuyoshi Nojima asks what Japan can learn from the ruling.
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.”
