Photos and text via Ian Rowen April 7, Taipei — Chen Wei-Ting announces that the Sunflower Movement has achieved significant progress in the pursuit of its goals. The world has heard the news. Students are already forming a new organization to hold legislators to their promises to the people. The
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‘The Tiger Awakens’: An observer’s view of the Sunflower Movement
Trista di Genova / Politics & Commentary March 30, 2014 I don’t read the newspapers or watch TV, since I lost my job in the media. Now I prefer to just show up and ask questions, and listen to what people say. On the way to Taipei, now, and to
Read moreA photo-filmic essay of the Sunflower Movement
Part One: The Approach by Trista di Genova / The Wild East Sunday morning, March 30, 2014. I was watching television in the Pingtung countryside at the loagong‘s. I saw how the streets around the legislature were filled with what turned out to be 500,000 people. The Laogong was visibly
Read moreGangsters counter-protest student-occupied legislature
Via NTU (National Taiwan University) E News Forum A counter-protest against the students occupying the Legislative Yuan has been taking place this afternoon, with supporters of CSSTA claiming that student leaders Lin Fei-fan and Chen Wei-ting should be arrested for the illegal occupation of the legislature. Although rainy weather early
Read moreExclusive photos: Students occupying Taiwan’s legislature
by Dave Johnson / The Wild East / Politics Editor’s note: The following photographs were taken by Dave Johnson on the evening when Taiwanese students occupied and took control of the legislature in Taipei over the issue of a Trade Pact with China, which many view as ‘selling out’ to
Read moreLessons for Taiwan: The HIV/AIDS pandemic
by Joseph Limoli Deyama MD – Harmony Home Volunteer The largest and most important meeting on AIDS in Asia, the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), was held August 9-13, 2009 on beautiful Bali Island, Indonesia. Harmony Home was well represented, with 12 volunteers and
Read moreLetters from a tense Thailand
By Kevin MacCash (listen to his music here) Jan 23. Phuket is like Detroit. A city they built for a population that isn’t coming anymore. A faded beauty. Since the protests started the people are coming less and less and since they declared a state of emergency in Bangkok and
Read moreTaiwan EPA’s ‘smoking gun’: bogus air standards
The Wild East / editorial Real-time Taiwan air-quality readings here Who controls the past controls the future, and who controls the present controls the past. The same also applies to current air pollution standards in Taiwan. A fuss should be made about the obscenely high “acceptable limit for particulates —
Read moreProtest held at Taipei City Council against ShiDa closures
The following call for support is from the owner of ‘Out of India’ restaurant in ShiDa. Read more: “Who Killed ShiDa?” SAVE SHIDA NIGHT MARKET! SAVE THE MOST COLORFUL PART OF TAIWAN’S CULTURE! PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS, TOO! I am the only remaining foreigner in Taiwan who is fighting for the
Read moreWho Killed ShiDa? The heart of Taiwan has died a slow death
Andy Singh, owner of Out of India restaurant, is one of the many small business owners in the ShiDa who has been standing up to the harassment over the past few years by developers, who want to turn the heart of Taiwan’s once liveliest district into a more lucrative and
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