The KMT and TPP have dug their heels into criticizing the Tsai administration’s appointments for the National Communications Commission, Taiwan’s media regulatory body...
Organized labor groups rallied today on Ketagalan Boulevard to commemorate International Workers' Day, also known as May Day in many parts of the world...
KMT legislative caucus convener Fu Kun-chi returned yesterday from a trip to China. While the trip has mostly been described in terms of that Fu led the delegation, sixteen other KMT legislators traveled together with Fu. Consequently, close to 1/3rd of the KMT legislative caucus, which consists of 52 individuals, traveled to China with Fu...
China's Taiwan Affairs Office has announced that it is allowing for Chinese travel to resume– except that only tourists from Fujian would be allowed to travel to Taiwan and they would only be allowed to visit Matsu. On the other hand, China has made the resumption of group tours between Taiwan and China contingent on whether ferry travel between Taipei, Taichung, and China’s Pingtan County, as well as other ferry services, is allowed to take place. The Chinese government also called for the resumption of direct flights between Taiwan and 29 Chinese cities....
Over 1,000 demonstrated on Ketagalan Boulevard on Saturday, to call for better protections for children. Many participants were parents with their children. The rally took place in spite of periodic rain, with large tents set up on Ketagalan Boulevard...
Civil society groups demonstrated in front of the Legislative Yuan this afternoon, in spite of periodic bouts of rain, as a protest against nuclear energy...
The Environmental Rights Foundation, Green Citizen Action Alliance, and Homemakers United Foundation have called for a carbon fee system to be implemented before the Lai administration takes power. To this effect, the environmental groups held a demonstration in front of the Legislative Yuan earlier this month....
The Taiwanese government is expected to continue normal operations in terms of air traffic, after the Chinese government announced unilaterally in February that it would be shifting flight route M503 to pass close to the median line of the Taiwan Strait. This would occur more frequently in the event of inclement weather....
Some feverish media reporting in English, from pan-Blue-leaning media outlets or journalists, has honed in on the prospect of the 760 remaining statues of Chiang Kai-shek being removed from public spaces. This is claimed to be a move likely to provoke China, in that Chiang is seen as a figure associated with China–this despite, of course, that Chiang and the KMT came to Taiwan after their military defeat by the CCP in the Chinese Civil War...
The US House approved 8 billion USD in foreign aid for Taiwan last week. This came as part of a package that contained an overall 95 billion USD in foreign aid, which included 60.8 billion USD for Ukraine and 26 billion USD for Israel...
Brian Hioe is one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance journalist, as well as a translator. A New York native and Taiwanese-American, he has an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and graduated from New York University with majors in History, East Asian Studies, and English Literature. He was Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy from 2017 to 2018 and is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Nottingham's Taiwan Studies Programme.
