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31 October 2011

Taiwan: Photos from the LGBT Pride Parade 2011 in Taipei

Written by Portnoy Zheng · Arts & Culture, Human Rights

On October 29, more than 50,000 people joined the annual Taiwan LGBT Pride parade in Taipei, which is the biggest in Asia. This year was the 9th parade since 2003. Here are some great photos from the day.

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31 March 2011

Taiwan: Nuclear Waste on Orchid Island

Written by I-fan Lin · Environment, Human Rights

In 1974, the Taiwan Atomic Energy Council decided to store nuclear waste on Taiwan's Orchid Island, where the indigenous Tao people have lived for generations. More than twenty years have passed, the radioactive waste barrels have eroded with rust and it seems that no one is ready to take care of the problem.

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29 March 2011

Taiwan: Anti-Nuclear Protesters' Lonely Quest

Written by I-fan Lin · Environment, Human Rights

A fourth nuclear power plant is currently under construction in Taiwan, in Gongliao town, just 40 km away from the capital Taipei. In 1988, eight years after the Taiwan Power Company...

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24 March 2011

Taiwan: Call for Energy Policy Review

Written by I-fan Lin · Environment, Economics & Business

The ongoing Fukushima nuclear power plant incident in Japan has alerted people in Taiwan about the safety of nuclear power plants in their own country. In order to transform current concern into long term government policy, many netizens are demanding the Taiwanese government conduct a comprehensive review on the country's energy and industrial policy.

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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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Updates about Taiwan (ROC)

28 October 2011

Chinese

Chiou Ho-shun, a death row inmate in Taiwan, may be executed at any time. He said in the mini-documentary, “I hope you can save me, but if it’s too late, please scatter my ashes in the Longfeng harbour, and buy a meatball, come and see me.” In the documentary, you can see how police manipulated confessions by assaulting and threatening Chiou and one “witness”.

• Portnoy Zheng

16 October 2011

Chinese

Yesterday(Oct. 15), more than 300 “occupiers” gathered at the 1st floor of Taipei 101, the landmark of capitalism in Taiwan[photo] to protest against the financial industry and biased governmental policy. Sun Qiong-li(孫窮理) of Coolloud.org pointed out[zh] that for Taiwan, our first enemy should be imperialism from US, and the event itself needs to be filled with more actions and discourses.

• Portnoy Zheng

7 October 2011

English

Programmer and open source activist Timdream wrote a tribute to Mr. Steve Jobs, about how his life matches with Mr. Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement address, in which he ask Stanford graduates to “look backwards and connect the dots”.

• Portnoy Zheng

29 September 2011

Chinese

Mike Campbell, a polyglot who can already speak fluent Mandarin, Hakka, Fukien-major languages used in Taiwan, along with a dozen of other languages, is now teaching people how to speak Sediq, Truku, and other rarely spoken Taiwanese indigenous languages on Youtube that now even most indigenous people now cannot speak.

• Portnoy Zheng

15 September 2011

English

Hong Kong In-Media, a media advocacy organization based in Hong Kong has published an e-book, Social Media Uprising in the Chinese-speaking World. The preface of the book, written by Jack Qui Linchuan is posted at interlocals.net, where you can also download a pdf preview of the book.

• Oiwan Lam

17 June 2011

English

From the blog: “Saving Siraya is a blog dedicated to the protection of a Taiwanese indigenous tribe that is not officially recognized by the government and therefore denied of basic human rights. Due to the demands of Zhong Xing University and the Taiwanese national government, starting JUNE 29th, 2011 Siraya homes will be demolished and families already suffering from poverty will become homeless.”

• Portnoy Zheng

16 June 2011

Chinese

The long awaited movie “Seediq Bale”-a movie depicting the controversy and conflict between Japan colonial force and Seedip people in 1930-released its first theatrical trailer on Youtube.

• Portnoy Zheng

Comments on "Taiwan (ROC)"

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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.