A Taiwanese man is expected to face trial in Thailand for his “crime” of hosting a radio station that broadcast uncensored news to people in China. Beijing is believed to have applied pressure on Thai authorities to arrest the man. This is just another example of China’s censorship tactics. The trial The victim, Chiang Yung-Hsin ...
The Facebook page “Taiwan mothers protect democracy” explained that the quality of housing, medical care, and education have greatly deteriorated in Hong Kong as a result of the rule of “one country, two systems.” This has caused Hong Kong and Taiwan netizens to comment on the page. This Facebook page contains posts by Taiwanese mothers ...
On April 10, 2019, images of the first black hole in human history were revealed, which is the symbolic achievement of a new milestone in human science. Taiwan’s role in black hole image It is understood that the first black hole image was very difficult to come by. Eight enormous radio telescopes, networked together to ...
On April 7, during a rally to protest China’s framework to govern Taiwan under its “One Country, Two Systems” policy, Zhong Huizhen knelt and pleaded with the Taiwanese people to awaken to what is happening in Hong Kong today. Her words touched many people. There are concerns that Zhong (who immigrated to Taiwan from Hong ...
The courageous efforts of a policeman stopped a train in time to save a suicidal man in Taiwan. At approximately 11:30 a.m. on April 5, a man suddenly laid down on the train tracks near the Wuri Train Station in an apparent attempt to commit suicide. People who saw him called the police, exclaiming: “Someone ...
During the 1989 student protests conducted at Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government initiated violent repression of the protestors. Today, remembered as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, more than 10,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the incident and resulting crackdown. Discussion about the Tiananmen Square Massacre is severely restricted in China. Many Chinese often wonder how ...
Queena Hsiao from Taiwan lost her cat Biebi over a year ago. At the last minute, she told Biebi that she wanted to continue to love him and asked him to come back to her as a baby with a red birthmark. Sanli News Net reported in March that Biebi was a homeless cat more ...
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightens its grip on Hong Kong, most citizens of the city are feeling less enthusiastic about their future. In fact, a recent survey shows that more people are pessimistic about the future of Hong Kong now than at any time in the past 25 years. Dim future The survey, ...
The following is a legend from Taiwan’s aboriginal Thao people about how Sun Moon Lake got its name. Once there was a loving and hardworking couple named Dajiange and Shuishe. One day, when the couple was working in the field under the sun, the earth moved and the mountains shook, and the sky and earth ...
In a joint conference on religious freedom called “A Civil Society Dialogue on Securing Religious Freedom in the Indo-Pacific Region,” representatives from both the U.S. and Taiwan highlighted how the island nation was markedly different from China when it comes to matters of faith. While Beijing practices a policy of crushing religious identities, Taiwan openly ...