Scuffles broke out in March in Nantou over plans to construct an incinerator, with local residents demonstrating the potential impact on the local tea industry. The project is currently undergoing an environmental impact assessment...
Thingyan festivities in Zhonghe saw protests from pro-democracy Burmese diaspora groups earlier this month, with a pro-military junta singer, L Seng Zi, invited to perform by the New Taipei city government...
Lai Ching-te is set to travel to Eswatini next week in the second overseas trip of his presidential administration. Lai’s trip will be to mark King Mswati III’s 58th birthday, as well as Mswati’s 40th year as Eswatini’s monarch...
A Truth Social post by US President Donald Trump drew widespread condemnation after Trump threatened that “a whole civilization” would die if Iran did not comply with US demands to surrender. In the same post, Trump incongruously stated “God Bless the Great People of Iran”, as well as touted “Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized people prevail”....
Racism against the prospect of introducing Indian migrant workers has again taken place in Taiwan. The prospect of Taiwan allowing India to become the fifth major country to provide blue-collar migrant work dates to 2023, when the Lai administration began negotiating with the Indian government to allow migrant workers...
Activists in Tainan were successful earlier this month in convincing the Tainan city government to withdraw more than 900 hectares of land that would have been used for projects, including the development of a science park...
A recent article by Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak in the Monthly Review proves another attempt by the campist left to whitewash the ethnic cleansing of Uyghurs by the Chinese government...
KMT chair Cheng Li-wun met with Chinese President Xi Jinping today in Beijing. The meeting took place as part of a six-day trip by Cheng to China that started on April 7th...
International coverage has zoomed in with disproportionate focus on a trip to China by current KMT chair Cheng Li-wun, during which she will meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping. The trip is touted as a visit to China, as the first trip of its kind in ten years, by an opposition leader...
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, as well as board member of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club.
