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A Taiwan theatre is showcasing a Hong Kong play about Tiananmen Square to mark the 34th anniversary of the crackdown in Beijing, saying almost as much about shrinking freedoms in the former British colony as it does about the 1989 bloodshed.
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Taiwan's Shinehouse theatre group, with the support of rights group Amnesty International, is putting on six performances of "35th of May" in Taipei from June 2-4.
As the 34th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown approaches on Sunday, many in Hong Kong are trying to mark the day in private ways in the shadow of a law that prosecuted leading activists in the city's pro-democracy movement.
Taiwanese democracy advocate Lee Ming-che (李明哲) is expected to return to Taiwan today after being released from prison in China yesterday, a source involved in the case has said. After serving a five-year sentence for “subversion of state power,” Lee was to travel to Xiamen in China’s Fujian Province to fly back to Taiwan after being discharged from Chishan Prison in Hunan Province, the source said, without providing the time of his release yesterday. A flight schedule at Gaoqi International Airport in Xiamen showed that Xiamen Airlines flight MF887 was the only flight to Taipei to...
Activists and lawmakers in Taiwan are asking their government to do more in boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics.