Taiwan Talk: Taiwan’s first Literature Award for Migrants wraps up
Listen Episode Description On this episode, we speak to the organizer of the the Literature Award for Migrants, Chang Cheng, about the competition he organized to help gain exposure for the literary abilities of Taiwan’s Southeast Asian population. The award, which wrapped up last month, invited literary submissions in Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian and Tagalog. During our...Continue reading
Indonesian Workers Celebrate End of Ramadan in Taipei
Several thousand Indonesian workers attended events in Taipei yesterday as they celebrated the end of Ramadan. Organized by the Taipei City Foreign and Disabled Labor Office, one event was held at Chiang Kaishek Memorial Hall and a similar celebration was held at the 228 Peace Memorial Park. Popular Indonesian singer Inul Daratista (pictured above) performed...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Wages for foreign in-home caregivers (6/30-7/1/2014)
Listen Episode Description Recently the Ministry of Labor announced it was reviewing measures that would increase the salary for Taiwan’s more than 200,000 foreign born domestic workers and caregivers to the minimum wage and mandate they be given 8 hours of continuous rest every day. To help us understand the proposals and what they could...Continue reading
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