This week on the Debrief we take a look at ASEAN’s summit meeting focusing on China’s territorial adventurism, Thailand’s ouster of its prime minister, national elections in South Africa, land development and animal rights in Taiwan.
Taiwan’s execution of five death row inmates, international labor day protests, free trade pilot zones, and a personal account during a visit to areas devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines last year.
Taiwan’s nuclear energy controversy engulfed Taiwan in heated debate once again, US President Obama’s trip to Asia and its impact on Taiwan, an opportunity for sensible and equitable development in Danshui, and Japan’s whale hunting expedition.
A chemical plant in Tainan and Formosan leopard cats in Miaoli; social civil unrest around the world; two left-wing leaning Taiwanese independent newspapers stopped publishing; and a new regressive marriage law in Iraq.
In the Debrief this week, we wrap up some continuing stories from the Sunflower Movement, and UN’s climate change report and contraception in the Philippines. Finally, a sex party on a train in Taiwan sparks legal debate.