New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Catta Chou of Youth Labor Union 95 regarding the upcoming Taiwan International Labor Film Festival by e-mail. The Taiwan International Labor Film Festival will be held from August 26th to September 4th in Taipei...
Perhaps of the most surprising outcomes of the South China Seas arbitration ruling in favor of the Philippines would be Taiwan’s sudden intervention into the matter through deploying a warship to Taiping Island...
South China Seas disputes are back in the news after a ruling by the UN Permanent Court of Arbitration by the Hague in favor of the Philippines, between disputed territorial claims between China and the Philippines...
There are those in Taiwan who have hailed Brexit as a positive, seeing false equivalency between Brexit and achieving a referendum on Taiwanese independence from China. But this is to fail to understand that Brexit indicates a rightward political shift, not only in European, but global politics...
Going forward after the historic China Airlines strike, the next issue of New Bloom will look at the relation of youth activism and labor in Taiwan / 在歷史性的華航罷工之後，破土這個月的主題將會探討台灣青年的社會運動與勞工之間的關係...
Labor issues are not out of the news just yet. In fact, it seems very likely that the Tsai administration is headed for a conflict with Taiwanese civil society, youth activists, and labor unions very soon regarding labor laws regulating migrant workers and worker vacations...
The film Detective Chinatown, recently pulled from a screening at the Thailand Film Destination Festival, exoticizes Thai culture. We might take a look...
