Taiwan What's On Now?

Yesterday, CNN posted a video of a severe fight in Taiwan’s congress (officially “Legislative Yuan” 立法院, Li4 Fa3 Yuan4 ). It is not common that Taiwanese local news being posted on CNN. First you may want to know: what were they fighting for? It was actually the government- leading party DPP (Democracy Progress Party, 民主進步黨 or simply 民進黨) tried to promote their public policy called 前瞻計畫( Ts’ian2 Tzhan1 Tzi4 Hua4, means “provision plans”) and pass the budget program in congress, since they own more seats. And the former government KMT (Kuo Min Tang, also known as the Nationalists Party before, 國民黨） refused it and made literally every effort they can do to disrupt the process of lawmaking. So they really did their effort, though, in physical way. And it shouldn’t be surprised to see the fight in Taiwan’s congress, however. Twenty some years ago, when DPP was just started their business in congress, they also did “whatever they can do” to protest KMT-reigning congress. After al...

Kaohsiung last weekend belonged to “the legends.” The League of Legends Rift Rivals was held in the port city at southern Taiwan. 12 Teams from LCK representing Korea, LPL representing China, and LMS representing Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, gathered to fight for their regions’  pride. The competitions were so exciting that almost blown off the roof of the stadium. And the final winner were the LPL teams surprisingly crushing over the all-time favorite LCK teams with 3-1 in BO5 series. However the story has not yet ended up, at least on Taiwanese media. On Monday, one of the major newspapers in Taiwan “中國時報” (China Times, “Tzhong1 Kuo2 Shi2 Pao4” ) published an articles criticising the Taiwanese fans “insulting China teams” “showing no respect” “embarrassing the host. “ This criticism raised quite a lot outrage among the e-sports fans and the Independentists. There are some background stories you should know. First, “中國時報,” though once the highly-rated media in Taiwan, now...