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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Since November of 2022, the world feels to have been thrown several sci-fi films into the reality of our future. The wide-release of ChatGPT initiated many questions around AI technology. How do we ...

Across the Pacific, a sense of anxiety lingers as many Taiwanese worry over how this year’s election of the United States president will affect them. The main concern is that warming relations with ...

Kevin: Tell me about where you’re from and what brought you to Taiwan? Darice: I’m originally from Minnesota, where I was born and raised. I attended university there, and then worked in Los Angeles.