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Taiwan: 2012 Election Sets Example for Mainland Chinese Democratization

Global Online Community Protests U.S. Anti-Piracy Bills

Today, January 18, is an important day for the Internet. Corporate websites, from Google to Twitpic, along with civil society groups and individuals, have all joined together in a common cause: to protest two American bills that could have grave effects for global online free expression.

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Taiwan: Land Expropriation Revision Fails to Address Farmers' Woes

As the presidential election is approaching, the politicians in Taiwan's Executive Yuan have decided to revise the Land Expropriation Act. However, instead of addressing the farmers' woes, lawmakers have passed a revision of the Act that reinstates the interests of development over human rights.

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China: On the Rise But Feeling Boxed In 9 November 2011
Taiwan: Photos from the LGBT Pride Parade 2011 in Taipei 31 October 2011
Taiwan: Nuclear Waste on Orchid Island 31 March 2011
Taiwan: Anti-Nuclear Protesters' Lonely Quest 29 March 2011
Taiwan: Call for Energy Policy Review 24 March 2011

Latest stories about Taiwan (ROC)

4 December 2011

China: Monitoring the 2012 Presidential Election

Written by John Kennedy · Elections, History

Chinese netizen interest this weekend in the first of three debates leading up to Taiwan's presidential election next month suggests more attention will be paid to this round than was given to the island's 2008 elections, and the focus has also expanded beyond each parties' stance on reunification with China.

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13 November 2011

Taiwan: Netizens React to Diplomat Accused of Abusing Domestic Labor

Written by Portnoy Zheng · Governance, Human Rights

Thanks to slow, reluctant legislators, and “some” - or I should say “many” - cruel employers, Taiwan has a notoriously bad record of mistreating foreign labor. However, this time an inconvenient...

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21 March 2011

Taiwan: The Reassurance of Nuclear Safety is Not Convincing

Written by I-fan Lin · Environment

Following the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, there are calls now for a review of Taiwan’s nuclear energy policy, particularly as a fourth nuclear power plant is now under construction.

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16 March 2011

Taiwan: Country's Nuclear Power Plants Are High Risk

Written by I-fan Lin · Environment

The nuclear power plants in Taiwan are not immune to the force that damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The panic escalates when the fourth nuclear power plant was ordered to be rush into operation in 2011.

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12 March 2011

Taiwan: Reflection on Japan Earthquake

Written by Portnoy Zheng · Disaster, Media & Journalism

When the 5th strongest earthquake ever recorded hit Japan yesterday, Taiwanese were also shocked. Taiwan and Japan share a lot of geological similarity and both countries are very vulnerable to natural disasters such as earthquake and typhoon.

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9 March 2011

Taiwan: Social Media Makes Indigenous Voices Loud and Clear

Written by Portnoy Zheng · Arts & Culture, Development

Stories about the Taiwanese indigenous population's struggle for identity, sustainability and dignity are missing from the country's public sphere, as a result of relative social and political domination by the majority Han Chinese population. Now, thanks to social media, indigenous youth are making their voices heard and reconnecting with their traditions.

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Updates about Taiwan (ROC)

27 January 2012

Chinese

David Bandurski from China Media Project introduced a discussion among mainland Chinese public opinion leaders on the Taiwan presidential election and translated a Weibo post which raised a series of questions for China's democracy opponents.

• Oiwan Lam

19 January 2012

Chinese

Having witnessed Taiwan's 2012 presidential election, Derrick Tao, a Hong Kong photographer, made a video (with English subtitles) to contrast democratic development of the two societies. As a prosperous but undemocratic city state, “Hong Kong could either join Taiwan as pioneers of freedom and democracy in the Chinese societies”, or “accept the status quo and let go of her ideals and beliefs.”

• Andy Yee

27 December 2011

Chinese

weReport, a Taiwan media project that tries to boost disappearing investigative journalism using crowd-funded and crowd-sourced mechanism, kicks off today with its first fully funded proposal proposed by China famous blogger Zola. His proposal to investigate the situation of registration fee for cross-strait marriage derives from his personal experience.

• Portnoy Zheng

10 December 2011

English

The 4th annual Taiwan Best Blog Awards was announced on Dec. 1st which aims to promote English-language blogs about Taiwan. David on Formosa piles up his list of best blogs 2011 candidates for you to visit.

• Portnoy Zheng

8 November 2011

Chinese

Green Party member and active participant of Occupy Taipei MingWangX(王鐘銘) updates the recent activities of the movement: “On the 15th day, 10/28, the police and the park administrators came again and tried to confiscate the tents for the 3rd time. They didn’t succeed because the member in one of the tents refused to leave even though the poles were stripped and the tent toppled. …That night, Occupy Taipei showed an open-air movie, “Capitalism, A Love Story.” The Occupy Taipei members held a meeting after the movie and decided to stay in the park and keep this movement going. There will be a 2-day event on 11/11-12, including movie, open-space conference, camping, barter market.”

• Portnoy Zheng

4 November 2011

English

On Ballots and Bullets, Chun-Yi Lee brings up the role of “Taishang”(Taiwanese businessmen, especially those who are doing business in China) in the coming joint election of President and legislators next January: “Most Taishang expect the government to negotiate with the Chinese government a better deal for them in more practical terms. For instance, in acquiring loans from local Chinese banks. This kind of practical issue certainly was not included in the grand framework of ECFA, and yet it is greatly needed for most Taishang in China.”

• Portnoy Zheng

28 October 2011

Chinese

Green Party member Wang Zhong-ming posts his picture on facebook of he sitting in a damaged tent torn down by the police near Taipei 101, the counterpart symbol of WallStreet in Taiwan. On the other hand, open data advocate Schee Zhu-han analyzed the flaws[zht] of the online strategies in different phases of the activity.

• Portnoy Zheng

Comments on "Taiwan (ROC)"

Global Online Community Protests U.S. Anti-Piracy Bills

SOPA blackout leads co-sponsors to defect - online protests that include major websites like Wikipedia blacking out their sites,...
here is a collection of blacked-out screenshots of major websites (incuding GV):
Here is a link to the only Bulgarian blog to be blacked-out today (to my knowledge, I may & hope...

Zheng's post is interesting because it shows that Chinese observers really are gaining sophistication about Taiwanese politics although the conclusions...
Thanks for at least striking through the "re-" part. It's an important distinction that is often missed.
Thanks for pointing out the mistake, corrections made.