Jung Minsik

Mar 8, 2024 | international.thenewslens.com | Jung Minsik

What you need to know "We see that AIT is serving as a broker to connect Taiwan with the U.S. We, local Taiwanese, have the duty to monitor them and tell them to stop." A member of Taiwan Action Front for Palestine told The News Lens. On March 7th, protesters assembled outside the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) in Taipei, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and accused the AIT as a complicit in facilitating military aid transactions between Israel, the United States, and Taiwan.

Dec 13, 2023 | international.thenewslens.com | Jung Minsik

What you need to know Migrant workers in Taiwan protest against private agencies’ role in hiring. They demand an end to illegal fees and government accountability. More than 500 individuals gathered in Taipei on Sunday, December 10, to protest against the continued use of private agencies in the hiring of migrant workers. The demonstration aimed to raise awareness of the illegal fees imposed on migrant workers by private brokers, a result of what they perceive as government failures.

Oct 29, 2023 | international.thenewslens.com | Jung Minsik

Taiwan’s 2023 Pride Parade brought together a staggering 180,000 individuals in Taipei last Saturday, which attracted people of different nationalities coming to celebrate this symbolic event in Asia. Taiwan Asia Equality Pride Parade LGBTQ+ rights

Oct 29, 2023 | international.thenewslens.com | Jung Minsik

What you need to know Taiwan’s 2023 Pride Parade brought together a staggering 180,000 individuals in Taipei last Saturday, which attracted people of different nationalities coming to celebrate this symbolic event in Asia. In a display of unity and celebration, Taiwan’s 2023 Pride Parade brought together a staggering 180,000 individuals in Taipei last Saturday.

Oct 19, 2023 | monocle.com | Tom Edwards |Gabriel Leigh |James Chambers |Jung Minsik

LThe new special offer on Taiwan’s shopping-mall scene, Ethiopian leather and electric flight. “We want things to last,” says Eyerusalem Kidane, co-founder of Ethiopian premium leather-goods company Sabegn. “It’s a core value of mine: I don’t want to keep buying the same thing over and over. This is also ingrained into how we design things. We use scrap; we use upcycled material. We don’t want to use new things to make more stuff that ends up in landfill.