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 ...

New Bloom is an online magazine featuring radical perspectives on Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific, founded by a group of students and activists after the 2014 Sunflower Movement in Taiwan. We seek to ...

Data source: International Monetary Fund When we compare in terms of US dollar-value growth, we however see that in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, Taiwan and South Korea’s per capita GDP were only ...

Taiwan’s minimum wage has stagnated for such a long time that the government needs to raise it by two to three times to meet the cost of living or catch up with other advanced economies ...

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 inadequate minimum wage has led to a multitude of social problems, including high injury death rates, mental health issues, and increasing suicide rates.

In centuries past, the Philippines played a significant role in sparking the outside world’s first awareness of Taiwan. When the Spanish occupied the Philippine archipelago in 1571 and set up ...

Japan’s general election is arriving just after the likely accession of a new Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida. But there’s much more going on this year.

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 ...

Compared to other advanced countries, Taiwan's doctors and nurses earn relatively low salaries and work excessive hours. The higher number of patient consultations makes their workload even more ...

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 ...

Taiwan has become a global leader in recycling, with one of the highest recycling rates in the world! The country manages to recycle more than 50% of it’s municipal waste and is thereby only a ...