davidonformosa

davidonformosa, 1 month ago to thailand

Amnesty International calls on Thai authorities to drop charges against two young activists accused of lèse-majesté and "computer crimes"

“Today’s indictment shows that Thai authorities are continuing to weaponize spurious charges to silence critical voices of young people who want to speak about their human rights,” said Amnesty International’s Thailand Researcher Chanatip Tatiyakaroonwong.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/04/thailand-drop-groundless-charges-against-youth-activists/

#Thailand #HumanRights #LeseMajeste #AmnestyInternational

davidonformosa, 1 month ago to Taiwan

Interview with Cosette Wu, a Taiwanese-American student at Harvard and co-director of the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP. The Coalition is made up of Tibetan, Taiwanese, Uyghur and Hong Kong students working in solidarity toward their collective liberation

https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202404260024

#Taiwan #Tibet #Hongkong #Uyghur #China #activism

davidonformosa, 1 month ago to Taiwan

Tainan resident Mark Tovell has written a guide to cycling off the beaten track in Taiwan. According to this review in the Taipei Times, the book is "aimed directly at the class of traveler that unboxes their velo at the airport... and pedals directly towards the high hills."

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2024/04/25/2003816914

#Taiwan #cycling #bikepacking #Taiwanderful

davidonformosa, 1 month ago to China

Chinese Human Rights Defenders has released its annual report for 2023. It focuses on the situation of human rights defenders and how Chinese authorities punish and harm their families

https://www.nchrd.org/2024/04/if-i-disobey-my-family-will-suffer-collective-punishment-of-human-rights-defenders-families-in-china/

#China #HumanRights

davidonformosa, 2 months ago to hongkong

The national security law has effectively crushed Hong Kong's once vibrant civil society. The protests of 2019 now seem like a distant memory

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/12/hong-kong-national-security-law-2020-impacts

#HongKong #China #HumanRights

davidonformosa, 2 months ago to Taiwan

Threads has become popular in Taiwan with a mixture of politics and less serious content. The 2024 elections provided a boost to the platform with many pan-green politicians joining

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/02/1090518/threads-taiwan-election-politics-popular/

#Taiwan #SocialMedia #Threads

davidonformosa, 2 months ago to Taiwan

The experiences of Indonesian migrant workers playing metal music in Taiwan shows the inadequacy of multiculturalism, and how critical race theories can be beneficial to Taiwan Studies

https://taiwaninsight.org/2024/04/03/toward-antiracist-taiwan-a-short-fieldnote-in-studying-racism-through-punk-and-metal-musical-performances-by-indonesian-migrant-workers/

#Taiwan #Racism #music #metal #TaiwanStudies

davidonformosa, 2 months ago to Taiwan

Magnitude 7.2 earthquake recorded off the coast of Hualien County in Taiwan

https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202404030001

#Taiwan #earthquake

davidonformosa, 2 months ago to Taiwan

This ABC News article speaks to young Taiwanese people about their future prospects. The article focuses on the possibility of war but also acknowledges that youth have other concerns.

"More so than the possibility of war, young people, like many around the world, are anxious about house prices, lack of wage growth, and the costs of whether to have children or not."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-30/taiwan-youth-resilience-china-invasion-fears/103616922

#Taiwan #abcnews

davidonformosa, 2 months ago to thailand

Thailand's House of Representatives has passed a marriage equality bill. If the legislation is approved by the Senate it will make Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to legalise same-sex marriage

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2024/03/28/2003815600

#Thailand #LGBT #HumanRights

davidonformosa, 2 months ago to hongkong

Joint statement of human rights and diaspora groups opposing the passage of Article 23 in Hong Kong

https://www.nchrd.org/2024/03/joint-statement-to-oppose-article-23/

#Hongkong #China #HumanRights

davidonformosa, 3 months ago to Taiwan

Only 2.4% of people in Taiwan identify as Chinese according to the latest NCCU Election Study Centre survey. This is the lowest number recorded since the survey began in 1992

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2024/02/24/2003813999

#Taiwan #data

davidonformosa, 3 months ago to Taiwan

Foreign journalists often fly into Taiwan with preconceived narratives and seek to distort the reality on the ground. This puts fixers in a difficult position, writes Clarissa Wei

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/21/taiwan-news-china-western-media-cross-straight-tensions-war/

#Taiwan #journalism #media

davidonformosa, 4 months ago to indonesia

Some comments on Prabowo and the Indonesian elections by Ben Bland

"...in 25 years, the country has also developed a set of political norms that have shaped Prabowo’s campaign and would likely constrain him if he wins the presidency. It might not resemble the Western vision of a liberal democracy, but the battles to shape the future of its political system will not end after the election."

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/indonesia/indonesias-democracy-stronger-strongman

#Indonesia #Election #Democracy

davidonformosa, 4 months ago to Taiwan

Michelle Kuo writes about transitional justice in Taiwan. In contrast with other countries, the perpetrators of historical crimes and injustices have never been punished for their wrongdoing.

https://ampleroad.substack.com/p/a-primer-on-transitional-justice

#Taiwan #TransitionalJustice

davidonformosa, 4 months ago to Taiwan

🐉 There are lots of Mandarin/English puns circulating for the Year of the Dragon playing on the Mandarin word for dragon: 龍 (lóng).

Another form of pun uses lóng 龍 in Mandarin vs lóng 攏 in Taiwanese which means all/everything.

The characters 龍賀 (lóng-hè) mean "congratulations for the dragon year" in Mandarin. In Taiwanese this sounds similar to "everything is good" (lóng hó 攏好)

via Egas Moniz-Bandeira on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/egasmb.bsky.social/post/3kl3bt7htis23

#Taiwan #Dragon #Taiwanese #language #Mandarin

davidonformosa, 4 months ago to China

The conviction of Chinese activist Li Qiaochu was punishment for speaking about the torture that she and her partner were subjected to in detention

"Her conviction highlights the grave dangers of peacefully advocating for human rights in Xi Jinping’s China." - Amnesty International’s China director Sarah Brooks

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/china-activist-li-qiaochu-unjustly-convicted-for-speaking-out-about-torture/

#China #HumanRights #AmnestyInternational

davidonformosa, 4 months ago to China

Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been sentenced to death in China. The sentence is likely to be commuted to life imprisonment. Yang has already spent five years in detention and there are serious concerns about his health

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/05/australian-academic-yang-hengjun-given-suspended-death-sentence-by-chinese-court-writer-wong

#China #HumanRights #auspol

davidonformosa, 4 months ago to Taiwan

Taiwan Obasang Political Equality Party (小民參政歐巴桑聯盟) recorded the fifth highest party vote in Taiwan's recent elections. It is "a grassroots party formed by women, and it aims to change Taiwan’s election culture and promote political equality through its candidacies campaigns."

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2024/02/04/2003813066

#Taiwan #TaiwanElection #feminism #Democracy

davidonformosa, 4 months ago to Taiwan

Three Chinese activists were sent back to Malaysia after they arrived in Taiwan seeking political asylum. All three held temporary refugee cards issued by the UNHCR in Bangkok.

The case highlights Taiwan's lack of an asylum law that would protect the rights of asylum seekers

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/taiwan-chinese-asylum-seekers-02012024131622.html

#Taiwan #China #Malaysia #HumanRights #Refugees

davidonformosa, 4 months ago to China

Comments in support of Taiwan's elections on the Chinese internet, despite harsh censorship, hint at the depth of grievances with the CCP, writes Yaqiu Wang

"Democratic states should take this into account by crafting long-term policies that treat the Chinese people and the CCP as separate entities, and include support for pro-democracy movements in China and the diaspora as a key priority. Democracy in China needs all the help it can get."

https://freedomhouse.org/article/watching-taiwans-free-elections-chinese-internet-users-lament-one-party-rule

#China #CCP #censorship

davidonformosa, 4 months ago to Taiwan

Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) of the KMT was elected as the speaker of Taiwan's 11th Legislature. The vote went along party lines with the TPP's caucus abstaining from the second round of voting after their candidate Huang Shan-shan (黃珊珊) was eliminated.

https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202402010006

#Taiwan #TaiwanElection #DPP #KMT #TPP

davidonformosa, 4 months ago to Taiwan

Taiwan's newly elected legislators will take up their seats today. Huang Jie (黃捷), at 31 years old, is the youngest and also Taiwan's first openly gay legislator

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2024/02/01/2003812931

#Taiwan #LGBT #DPP