Controversy continues regarding COVID-19 cases on three navy ships that returned from Palau. 29 sailors recently tested positive for COVID-19 on three ROC navy ships that returned as part of a “Friendship Flotilla” that visited Palau earlier this month...
Lam Wing-kee, the only one of the Causeway Bay booksellers to currently remain free, was splashed with red paint in an unprovoked attack in Taipei yesterday. Lam described his attackers as two men in their 30s who were wearing masks...
In the past three months, one has observed an increase in Chinese and American military activity in the area around Taiwan. Namely, one has observed a sharp uptick in Chinese military activity around Taiwan in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, and American military activity has primarily been in response to Chinese military activity...
A wave of political arrests has again taken place in Hong Kong, with at least fourteen pro-democracy politicians arrested through the course of the day...
The approval by the Executive Yuan of a bill that would make a total of seventeen irrigation agencies into government agencies continues efforts by the Tsai administration to nationalize irrigation networks. The bill was signed by Premier Su Tseng-chang last Thursday and sent to the legislature, where it is likely to meet heavy resistance from the KMT...
Alan Yang's Tigertail ultimately proves a disappointing film, having all the elements of what would otherwise make a good film, but these elements failing to cohere together in any meaningful way...
The Central Epidemic Command Center announced five new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan today, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 393. All five cases were imported, rather than being cases of domestic transmission...
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.