One year after the suicide of Dai Lin and the occupation of the Ministry of Education, the issue of history textbooks in Taiwan has not yet been fully settled ...
After a resounding victory by Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party in Upper House elections, it would appear that the ground has been cleared for Abe to push for the reinterpretation of Article 9 of the Japanese constitution. What next, then, for the student movement opposed to constitutional reinterpretation?...
For a KMT which has dug in its heels regarding the issue of party assets, can taking the legislature hostage be anything except disastrous for its public image?...
Though little discussed outside of Japan, Okinawa would currently be in a state of political crisis after the mass deployment of upwards of five hundred and it is rumored as much as one thousand riot police from the more central Japanese islands to the district of Takae in Okinawa, which has only a population of 160...
It would be that the Chinese government is aiming to buy off young Taiwanese entrepreneurs through a new pilot program, with announcement of a new program which will see the establishment of a venture capital fund aimed at young Taiwanese start-ups and entrepreneurs. It is reported this fund may be as large as 200 billion NT...
A contest in Taiwan to satirically apologize to China started by youth activist leader Wang Yi-kai has gathered the attention of international media...
A hunger strike by workers outside the Legislative Yuan came to an end today after 52 hours. Workers were demonstrating against planned cuts in public holidays...
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.