Chinese exchange student Lee Jia-bao continues to face the possibility of deportation back to China, with his current visa status set to expire in July, and Lee still seeking asylum in Taiwan due to his criticisms of Chinese president Xi Jinping...
The Want Want Group recently threatened the Apple Daily with a defamation lawsuit for publishing a report stating that the Want Want Group received over 477 million Chinese yuan—just over 2 billion NTD—from the Chinese government between 2017 and 2018...
The historic first demonstration to call for the decriminalization of cannabis in Taiwan was held on April 20th last month, with approximately 200 in attendance. The event was scheduled to coincide with 420, a date which in which cannabis-related events are held internationally...
International Workers' Day saw thousands of workers take to the streets of Taipei today, with the demonstration beginning at noon today on Ketagalan Boulevard and ending around 4 PM. The demonstration involved throwing papers with a list of demands at the Legislative Yuan, firing bottle rockets at the Presidential Office, and a skit involving presidential contenders and the sea goddess Mazu...
Concerns have broken out that China may be attempting to prop up overseas Tibetan organizations loyal to its interests, with the formation of the Tibetan Organization of Canada in Toronto on April 20th...
Tens of thousands marched in Hong Kong yesterday in what many have called the largest set of demonstrations to have taken place in Hong Kong since the Umbrella Movement. Organizers claim that 130,000 demonstrated...
A demonstration by migrant workers took place outside of the Ministry of Labor this afternoon. Migrant workers demonstrated today because April 28th is the last Sunday before May 1st, which is International Workers’ Day, and which is commemorated with a labor protest every year in Taiwan. However, unless May 1st falls on Sunday—which is usually the only day off that migrant workers have off every week, if they have one at all—most migrant workers are unable to demonstrate that day...
With nuclear energy once again looming as an issue over elections next year, ten thousand demonstrated against nuclear energy in Taipei today. The demonstration saw visits by current president Tsai Ing-wen and former premier William Lai, who are both contending for the DPP's presidential nomination in 2020 elections...
The sentencing of the Umbrella Nine has met with shock and outrage in Hong Kong, with a crowd gathering to await the sentencing, and a candlelight vigil held after the sentencing...
The question of who will become the KMT’s presidential candidate has, quite unusually, become centered on a seeming contest between Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu and FoxConn CEO Terry Gou. After much speculation, it was announced today that the KMT will indeed draft Han for its presidential primary...
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.