http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/01/taiwan%e2%80%99s-crackdown-on-sex-selective-abortion-showing-marginally-positive-results/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/01/taiwan%e2%80%99s-crackdown-on-sex-selective-abortion-showing-marginally-positive-results/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:21:49 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124698 LifeSiteNews.com: A report from Taiwanese health authorities says that a crackdown on illegal sex-selective abortions prevented the deaths of nearly 1,000 female unborn babies in 2011. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/01/taiwan%e2%80%99s-crackdown-on-sex-selective-abortion-showing-marginally-positive-results/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/07/taiwan%e2%80%99s-gender-balance-worsening-as-more-parents-abort-female-fetuses/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/07/taiwan%e2%80%99s-gender-balance-worsening-as-more-parents-abort-female-fetuses/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:31:06 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=120258 Taipei Times: Taiwan is trailing only China in the ratio of males to females at birth, with a sex ratio way above what would normally occur without abortions ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/07/taiwan%e2%80%99s-gender-balance-worsening-as-more-parents-abort-female-fetuses/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/09/taiwan-gears-for-biggest-same-sex-mass-wedding/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/09/taiwan-gears-for-biggest-same-sex-mass-wedding/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:57:58 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=110334 AFP: bout 60 lesbian couples will tie the knot in Taiwan's biggest same-sex mass wedding in the hope that the island will soon follow New York to legalise gay marriage, an organiser said Tuesday. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/09/taiwan-gears-for-biggest-same-sex-mass-wedding/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/17/taiwan-to-punish-hospitals-for-sex-based-abortions/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/17/taiwan-to-punish-hospitals-for-sex-based-abortions/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 15:14:07 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=103813 AP: Taiwan's health ministry says hospitals will be penalized for conducting gender selective abortions blamed for up to 3,000 aborted female fetuses last year. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/17/taiwan-to-punish-hospitals-for-sex-based-abortions/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/16/results-of-gender-selective-abortion-investigation-to-be-revealed-in-months/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/16/results-of-gender-selective-abortion-investigation-to-be-revealed-in-months/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 19:54:35 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=103753 Taipei Times: In two months, the Department of Health will release the results of an investigation into gender selective abortions that have taken place in hospitals and will fine violators, a health official said yesterday. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/16/results-of-gender-selective-abortion-investigation-to-be-revealed-in-months/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/24/getting-our-china-priorities-straight/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/24/getting-our-china-priorities-straight/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:39:45 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=69979 writing at The Heritage Foundation / The Foundry: "In another development from last week, this one virtually ignored by the establishment media, the Department of Defense released its annual Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China. According to the report, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) official budget, which has enjoyed double-digit annual increases for two decades, grew again by nearly 8 percent . . . More troubling, however, was what the report did not focus enough on: the threat to Taiwan. There is little discussion of the Taiwan military structure or its equipment . . . Meanwhile, while the Obama Defense Department is ignoring the threat to Taiwan, the Obama State Department has gotten off to a poor start defending human rights in China." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/24/getting-our-china-priorities-straight/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/12/law-review-donor-conception-regulation-in-japan/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/12/law-review-donor-conception-regulation-in-japan/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:37:03 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=68584 Yukari Semba, Kaori Muto, Hyunsoo Hong, Chiungfang Chang, Ayako Kamisoto, and Minori Kokado, Surrogacy: Donor Conception Regulation in Japan. Bioethics, Vol. 24, Issue 7, pp. 348-357, September 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1654083 or doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.2009.01780.x As of 2008, surrogacy is legal and openly practised in various places; Japan, however, has no regulations or laws regarding surrogacy. This paper reports the situation of surrogacy in Japan and in five other regions (the USA, the UK, Taiwan, Korea and France) to clarify the pros and cons of prohibiting surrogacy, along with the problems and issues relating to surrogacy compensation." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/12/law-review-donor-conception-regulation-in-japan/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/06/taiwans-sinking-birth-rate-threatens-productivity/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/06/taiwans-sinking-birth-rate-threatens-productivity/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:03:31 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=57417 Reuters: "Taiwan is scrambling to raise its birthrate, among the world's lowest, before the sinking number of newborns threatens productivity for its export-driven $390 billion economy. Taiwan fears it will lack the manpower or brainpower in 10 to 15 years to keep up with industrialized Asian peers and the blooming economies of some Southeast Asian countries." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/06/taiwans-sinking-birth-rate-threatens-productivity/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/05/the-war-on-baby-girls-gendercide/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/05/the-war-on-baby-girls-gendercide/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:28:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=54399 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/05/the-war-on-baby-girls-gendercide/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/24/prostitution-to-be-decriminalized-in-taiwan/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/24/prostitution-to-be-decriminalized-in-taiwan/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:40:18 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=28194 Taiwan News: "The government has tentatively decided to decriminalize prostitution in response to sex workers' appeals for better protection of their human rights, a senior official said Wednesday." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/24/prostitution-to-be-decriminalized-in-taiwan/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/30/report-shows-press-freedom-declines-worldwide/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/30/report-shows-press-freedom-declines-worldwide/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:32:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=22802 AP: "Declines in Israel, Italy and Taiwan illustrate that established democracies with traditional open media are not immune to restricting freedom," said Arch Puddington, research director for Freedom House, a nonprofit organization that plans to release the report on Friday in advance of World Press Freedom Day on Sunday. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/30/report-shows-press-freedom-declines-worldwide/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/12/15/taiwan-human-trafficking-ring-busted-in-penghu/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/12/15/taiwan-human-trafficking-ring-busted-in-penghu/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:59:13 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=10519 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/12/15/taiwan-human-trafficking-ring-busted-in-penghu/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/04/29/abortion-law-and-abortion-discourse-in-taiwan-rights-social-movements-and-democratization/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/04/29/abortion-law-and-abortion-discourse-in-taiwan-rights-social-movements-and-democratization/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:05:12 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/04/29/abortion-law-and-abortion-discourse-in-taiwan-rights-social-movements-and-democratization/ ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/04/29/abortion-law-and-abortion-discourse-in-taiwan-rights-social-movements-and-democratization/feed/ 0