Migrant workers rallied last Sunday outside representative offices in Taipei, calling for an abolition to the current broker system and the institution of direct hiring practices...
22-year-old student Chow Tsz-lok has died in Hong Kong after injuries sustained from falling from the third floor to the second floor of a car park in the course of police dispersion operations in Tseung Kwan O on Monday....
The decision of the Taipei District Court to award 1.1 million NTD in compensation to 14 participants in the attempted occupation of the Executive Yuan on March 24th, 2014, during the 2014 Sunflower Movement, has been challenged by the Taipei City Police. The Taipei City Police has announced that it intends to appeal the ruling, which was announced last Wednesday...
Intensive protests took place in Hong Kong over the weekend, with violence against demonstrators seemingly reaching new heights. Particularly shocking have been images circulated online of district councilor Andrew Chiu’s ear being bitten off by an assailant who previously attacked others with a knife...
Last month, civil society organizations including the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, the Judicial Reform Foundation, and Human Subject Protection Association raised concerns that a new electronic ID card which the Taiwanese government intends to roll out next year could violate personal privacy...
Demonstrations that took place concurrently with Halloween celebrations in Hong Kong yesterday, with police attacking sometimes costumed demonstrators. Joshua Wong of Demosisto was blocked from running in district council elections by the Hong Kong government earlier this week...
As an unorthodox politician who originally campaigned in 2014 with the claim that he was a regular person that sought to enter politics, rather than a slick and polished member of the political establishment, Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has established a reputation for gaffes over the years. It may not be surprising that Ko has once again provoked ire with a number of recent comments...
KMT presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu has again found himself embroiled in controversy after making several outlandish campaign promises that he had to retract in short order over the past month...
America’s planned unilateral withdrawal from Syria should be a dire warning to Taiwan about the perils of aligning with American military might as a bulwark against China...
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.
