SOCIAL JUSTICE Tsai shrugged off criticism over her transitional justice policy, saying economic policy should not take precedence, because both are e
By Chen Wei-han / Staff reporterRelatives of 228 Incident victims yesterday called on the government to follow through on its proposal to rename the C
INSPIRATION: President Tsai Ing-wen said that Germany is an inspiration for the nation, as it has relentlessly sought historical truth and prosecuted
By Shih Hsiao-kuang and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday promised legal action af
By Chen Wei-han / Staff reporterPresident Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) promise to deal with radioactive waste stored on Taitung County’s Orchid Island (Lanyu,
‘POLITICAL SHOW’: One protester said the president’s choice of location for the apology and the invitation of mainly elected Aboriginal officials was
By Sean Lin / Staff reporterAhead of the 35th anniversary of Chen Wen-chen’s (陳文成) supposed murder, National Taiwan University yesterday unveiled the
NO ‘CONSENSUS’: The president acknowledged talks in 1992 found common ground, but did not explicitly endorse the ‘1992 consensus’ as Beijing demanded
PROSECUTIONS: Impunity is the greatest obstruction to transitional justice, and the law ‘amounts to an amnesty’ for those guilty of White Terror era a
Supporters of a prominent Christian lawyer who was taken into secret detention after opposing a Communist party cross-removal campaign are demanding h
‘SILENT MAJORITY’: One official said that the Council for Industrial and Commercial Development, which made the commercial, believes that Chu will mai
By Chen Hui-ping / Staff reporterThe Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) would establish an official commission to help victims and families of the 228
POLITICAL PUPPETS: The issue of education has dissolved into political rhetoric, as students get legislators’ signatures to support the withdrawal of
By Alison Hsiao / Staff reporterDemocratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesperson Huang Di-ying (黃帝穎) yesterday criticized the government and police, sa
ILLEGAL ADJUSTMENT? In response to concerns, the K-12 education administration director said the alterations were entirely legal, and the changes woul
‘PROGRESSIVE AND STRONG’: The DPP leader said that her political party would strive for ‘transitional justice, democratic education and social justice
By Su Fang-ho and Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe statue of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) in the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei w
BUSINESS SKILLS: The KMT’s candidate for Taipei mayor said he would like to introduce the KPI system to help boost bureaucratic efficiency and make th
TIMING TROUBLES: A company confidentiality clause looked like a gag order to Taiwanese workers amid fears of Beijing’s influence at the firm’s Hong Ko
Tiananmen Square student leader and exiled Chinese dissident Wang Dan met with Wen Chun-hua, a staff reporter with the “Liberty Times” (the sister new