HRW called for a stronger response from the international community to the Chinese party-state’s severe repression of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims

"Current evidence shows continued mass arbitrary detention, unjust imprisonment, mass surveillance, cultural and religious erasure, restrictions on travel and communication, and pressure on Uyghurs abroad, even as Chinese authorities promote a public image of normalcy in Xinjiang."

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/08/27/china-decade-of-impunity-for-crimes-against-uyghurs

#Uyghur #China #HumanRights #HRW

Interview with Taiwanese singer-songwriter Enno Cheng (鄭宜農) about her collaboration with Korean folk singer Lang Lee

https://taiwanbeats.taicca.tw/en/news/ennocheng

#Taiwan #TWmusic #Taiwanderful #music #台灣

Mobile network slowdown drills conducted during Taiwan's Urban Resilience Exercise may have been the first of their type ever conducted internationally. The exercise differed significantly from drills conducted in South Korea and Japan

"By simulating an extreme situation in which bandwidth became severely constrained, the exercise provided a real-world stress test that conventional drills cannot."

https://en.tfc-taiwan.org.tw/taiwans-first-mobile-network-slowdown-drill-was-there-an-international-precedent-and-what-did-30-minutes-put-to-the-test/

#Taiwan #resilience #Internet #FactCheck #台灣 #事實查核

China's campaign of international diplomatic pressure against Taiwan is now targetting Taiwanese representative offices

This will have significant impacts in the South Pacific where Taiwan relies on offices in PNG and Fiji to maintain relations with the eight Pacific island countries that do not formally recognise Taiwan

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/with-many-taiwanese-embassies-closed-china-shifts-target-to-representative-offices/

#Taiwan #China #Fiji #PNG #Pacific #台灣 #中國

The KMT's efforts to slash the budget of Taiwan's international English-language broadcaster is politically motivated and short-sighted

"If TaiwanPlus is starved of funding and forced to shrink or disappear, Taiwan will lose its principal independent vehicle for telling its own story to the world. Local media focused on domestic partisan battles will leave the international information space largely uncontested."

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/08/25/world/taiwanplus-english-media-beijing-budget-survival/

#Taiwan #TaiwanPlus #PressFreedom #journalism #media #台灣

🎸 Chthonic have collaborated with Finnish musician Mariska on a new single titled "Näin Määrättiin"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzCZUmpUchA&feature=em-lsp

#Taiwan #Finland #TWmusic #Taiwanderful #music #metal

📎 The End of Human Rights at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Session with Phillipe Bolopion and Daniela Gavishon of Human Rights Watch

#FODI #Sydney #HumanRights #HRW

You Must Take Part in Revolution at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney

Badiucao and Melissa Chan discussed their graphic novel, art and techno-authoritarianism

#Sydney #FODI #GraphicNovel #art #activism

The Chinese government is placing heavy restrictions on Uyghur Australians visiting their homeland

This includes surveillance and monitoring while in the Uyghur Region and in some cases being interrogated about activities of the Uyghur community in Australia, according to research by Human Rights Watch

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/08/16/australia-chinese-government-menaces-uyghur-diaspora

#Uyghur #HumanRights #China #EastTurkistan #HRW

Taiwan’s Public Television Service (PTS) is vital for building creative capacity. A process that has taken decades in parallel with Taiwan's democratisation. Its value risks being undone by budget cuts and freezes, writes Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2026/08/15/2003862514

#Taiwan #media #journalism #TaiwanPlus #PTS #台灣 #公視

📎 A map showing countries which use judicial corporal punishment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_corporal_punishment?wprov=sfla1

The KMT voted to pass a bill for a referendum on the use of corporal punishment (caning) to be held alongside Taiwan's local elections in November

The referendum is very unlikely to pass but plenty will be written in the international media about this over the next few months. It will absolutely trash Taiwan's reputation as a country committed to human rights. It makes a mockery of Taiwan's democracy

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/08/15/2003862523

#Taiwan #KMT #referendum #election #HumanRights #台灣 #人權 #公投 #政治

The August–October 2026 issue of Mekong Review is out now. Cover art by Badiucao

https://mekongreview.com/

#magazine #Asia #art

📎 There is also a Taiwan Update at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

3-4 Sept 2026

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/2026-taiwan-update-4860135

2026 ANU Taiwan Update
8-9 September

"Four scholars on chips, energy, polarisation and identity, plus a restored screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Sandwich Man."

https://ciw.anu.edu.au/event/2026-anu-taiwan-update

#Taiwan #TaiwanStudies #ANU #Canberra #台灣

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Public Media Alliance have urged Taiwan's legislature to stop the proposed budget cuts to the Public Television Service (PTS) and TaiwanPlus

The Public Media Alliance said the budget cuts would "weaken an essential cornerstone of Taiwan’s democratic society."

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/08/11/2003862290

#Taiwan #media #journalism #PressFreedom #TaiwanPlus #台灣 #公視

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) is not 'anti-China,' says founder Luke de Pulford

IPAC aims to help democratic governments develop more realistic policies toward China. Members respect China and the Chinese people. However, they "do not like authoritarianism and don't like the behavior of an authoritarian government."

https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202608090007

#China #CCP #IPAC #authoritarianism #politics

Taiwan, A Thousand Small Moments

https://youtu.be/qlyLs-W1SWo?si=M4z_Q1Mp4anhH83g

#Taiwan #Taiwanderful #travel #台灣

Badiucao & Melissa Chan Australian book tour

They will be in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne this month to talk about their graphic novel 'You Must Take Part in Revolution'

#Australia #Sydney #Melbourne #Canberra #GraphicNovel #books

China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law is Already Harming Uyghurs

"The damage caused by China’s ethnic unity law is no longer hypothetical. Governments must respond with urgency before forced assimilation and transnational repression become even more deeply entrenched."

https://thediplomat.com/2026/08/chinas-ethnic-unity-law-is-already-harming-uyghurs/

#Uyghur #HumanRights #China