Third Pole Project was launched three years ago by www.chinadialogue.net, a not for profit web platform with offices in London, San Francisco, Delhi and Beijing. Established six years ago, its ...

Compared to its cost of living, Taiwan’s minimum wage is 56.3% lower than the optimal amount that its minimum wage should be. When comparing the inadequacy in terms of nominal wages, Taiwan’s ...

Since 1985, Taiwan’s real estate profits have grown by nearly 40 times, but the minimum wage has not even grown by four times. If the minimum wage had grown as quickly as real estate profits, it ...

Taiwan’s housing prices are one of the highest in the world, but policymakers don’t seem to understand the gravity of the situation, nor have they taken urgent steps to resolve the crisis ...

Taiwan’s manufacturing profits are growing disproportionately faster than non-manufacturing profits, which has resulted in a loss of innovation and diversity in the economy.

The News Lens International is a Taiwan-based independent digital media, providing balanced reporting and thought-provoking opinions from Taiwan and all around Asia. All four referendum questions ...

In recent years, Taiwan has seen a rise in road traffic deaths, suicide deaths, and a drop in fertility rates, which could be related to its inadequate and low wages.

Fed up with rampant illegal dumping, people demanded change, with the then Kaohsiung mayor (and now KMT chairman) Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) facing the brunt of the public's ire. In just 20 years ...

While the Armed Forces of the Philippines denies targeting any specific country, the exercises are situated near areas close to Taiwan and the South China Sea. Critics argue that Balikatan serves ...

The millennium symbolized the arrival of a new age, and marked the beginning of a transformational era in Taiwan’s popular music industry. As a bastion of Chinese-language pop, Taiwan has ...

The Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage The Discovery Channel has listed the pilgrimage of the Dajia Mazu from Jenn Lann Temple in Taichung’s Dajia District to Fengtian Temple in Xingang, Chiayi County as one ...

There’s the option of abandoning one’s citizenship by birth and being naturalized as a local citizen. Many Japanese also undergo the naturalization process in Taiwan. But there is an ...