A sigh of relief was the response for many after a high profile telephone call between American president-elect Donald Trump and Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-Wen. But should the phone call really inspire such confidence?...
Questions of the relationship between the state and private sector are behind political controversy about flight operator TransAsia going out of business...
The rejection of Yau Wai-Ching and Baggio Leung’s appeal against their disqualification from Hong Kong’s Legislative Council should not be surprising. The real question now is how far Beijing's political purges will go...
Some have taken Trump’s recent meetings with East Asian leaders as a sign that Trump's statements that he will withdraw American troops from bases in South Korea and Japan are mere election rhetoric. Is this really so?...
Fight For Justice is a film focusing on prominent activist lawyers who have recently emerged in Taiwan, following the lives of several such lawyers through some of Taiwan’s high-profile legal cases in recent years...
20,000 demonstrated in support of marriage equality in front of the Legislative Yuan today, protests coinciding with the second of two public hearings held by the Legislative Yuan on marriage equality...
Backsliding by the DPP on marriage equality has led to rage from members of the LGBTQ community and allies after statements by Ker Chien-ming, majority leader of the Legislative Yuan...
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.