Brian Hioe

Chinese Pressure Causes Taiwan To Lose Hosting Rights For East Asian Youth Games

Brian Hioe
Chinese pressure on Taiwanese participation in sporting events continues. This can be seen in two recent incidents, with China successfully forcing Taiwan out of hosting the East Asian Youth Games through pressure on the East Asian Olympic Committee and attempts to force Taiwan out of participating in the 2018 Gay Games in Paris next month under the name “Taiwan”...
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalJuly 20185 min read

Interview: Miao Poya (苗博雅)

Brian Hioe
On May 12th, New Bloom editor Brian Hioe and Ferran Pérez Mena interviewed Miao Po-ya of the Social Democratic Party, who is running in the Daan-Wenshan area of Taipei. This is part of New Bloom's ongoing series of interviews with independent city councilor candidates, as part of its special 2018 election coverage...
EnglishInterviewsJuly 201817 min read

NGO團體對台塑嚴正抗議河靜鋼鐵廠污染事件後續處置

Brian Hioe
上週三（6/20），數十人集結於台塑股東會，抗議於二〇一六年四月開始的魚群死亡潮。在台塑河靜鋼鐵公司的鋼鐵工廠完工時，魚群便開始大量死亡。魚群的死亡數量相當可觀，數百萬隻魚的屍體在越南兩百公里沿海被沖上岸。而魚群死亡也讓大量漁村陷入憂愁，甚至傳出食物中毒的報導。...
EnvironmentalJuly 2018Social Movements中文陳黃金菊1 min read

Real Estate Scandals Continue To Face KMT Politicians?

Brian Hioe
Two recent incidents prove examples of murky KMT politics at the local level, with KMT politicians in both urban and rural areas implicated in scandals regarding real estate. This can be observed both with a scandal regarding a dorm complex owned by KMT mayoral candidate Hou You-yi and the sentencing of former Yunlin County commissioner Chang Jung-wei by the Supreme Court...
EnglishJuly 2018Politics7 min read
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Brian Hioe

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.

丘琦欣，創建破土的編輯之一，專於撰寫社會運動和政治的自由作家偶而亦從事翻譯工作。他自哥倫比亞大學畢業，是亞洲語言及文化科系的碩士，同時擁有紐約大學的歷史，東亞研究及英文文學三項學士學位。