After close to a decade, the Supreme Court moved to clear Indigenous Bunun hunter Tama Talum of a conviction on firearms possession and hunting of a protected Formosan Serow earlier this month...
The tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the Sunflower Movement was commemorated yesterday with a demonstration in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. Several hundred, possibly around 1,000, attended. The primary organizer of the event was the Economic Democracy Union, one of the key groups involved in the movement, which reconstituted itself in the movement’s aftermath...
Ten years proves, in some ways, an awkward anniversary for the Sunflower Movement. This is in spite of that the widespread influence of the movement is recognized...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe spoke with René Hà, one of the founders of the Stamped zine, a space for migrant creatives navigating Australia's immigration system...
The indictment of Pingtung County Council speaker Chou Tien-lun on vote buying charges related to Terry Gou’s bid for the KMT’s presidential nomination late last month should not surprise. Namely, issues regarding vote buying and corruption continue to plague Taiwanese politics, particularly in rural areas...
Local residents living around the Taipei Brewery, as well as union workers at the brewery, have taken to protest against plans by the city government to sell land owned by the brewery to the National Taipei University of Technology...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe spoke with the interviewees who appear in the documentary on the ongoing human rights crisis in Xinjiang, All Static & Noise. The following interviews were conducted in September and October 2023...
Tensions between the DPP and KMT are likely at a boiling point in Keelung, with conflict between KMT mayor George Hsieh and the DPP city council caucus having escalated dramatically in the past weeks...
Tibetan groups marched today to mark the 65th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day. Tibetan Uprising Day refers to the uprising that took place on March 10th, 1959 against the PRC’s invasion and subsequent annexation of Tibet. Each year, Tibetan groups worldwide commemorate the anniversary with demonstrations, marches, and rallies worldwide...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed filmmakers David Novack and Janice Engelhart on their documentary on the ongoing human rights crisis in Xinjiang, All Static & Noise. The following interview was conducted in August 2023...
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.
